Earlier than he was one of the crucial profitable musical artists of all time, Aubrey Drake Graham famously rose to fame portraying the wheelchair-bound basketball star Jimmy Brooks on the teenager cleaning soap opera Degrassi: The Subsequent Era. He has not been shy about referencing that historical past all through his rap profession, and right this moment it got here up once more. After some delays, Drake and 21 Savage’s It’s All A Blur Tour launches tonight in Chicago. To mark the event, he shared an audio message on Instagram that delves into some deep metaphysical considerations, which in some way turns into an anecdote about getting excessive proper earlier than auditioning for Degrassi.

Right here’s the total textual content of his speech:

Somebody requested me the opposite night time what my greatest concern is, and I’ve by no means actually had a very good reply for it, however my reply was that each one that is for nothing. Sort of the concept, like, someday, life ends and it simply all goes black. And I suppose that query, like, despatched me, you recognize, clearly deep right into a spiral of thought. And it makes me take into consideration my life and the way surreal it feels at instances. I’m going again to this present day after I was like 13 or 14. I had an audition for a TV present that finally formed my life, and earlier than my audition, I went to this child’s home. And I, out of, I suppose, a want to be accepted, I’d succumb to look stress, and I obtained excessive with these children proper earlier than my audition. I type of surprise, like, if one thing unhealthy occurred that day or, you recognize, perhaps I’m nonetheless excessive, perhaps I’m in some coma. And that is simply, like, me taking part in out my ideally suited life. And yeah, that idea has caught with me for lots of years. I imply, it seems like actuality, it feels tangible. However I undoubtedly surprise generally.

We’re as soon as once more reminded that no quantity of profession success will take away gnawing questions concerning the nature of actuality. And that Drake is a cornball at coronary heart.

Drake has a brand new poetry e book out and has began teasing new album For All The Canines.