Before he was the ‘Champagne Papi,’ Drake was just neighborhood teenage heartthrob Jimmy Brooks on the Canadian hit television series Degrassi: the Next Generation.
Even though the “Flip the Switch” rapper was part of the cast for seven seasons, Drake almost left the show after his character was shot and confined to a wheelchair toward the end of his time on the show.
That’s according to a new oral history, Degrassi’s creator and head writer James Hurst revealed to the A.V. Club on Friday, October 15. “There was a letter from a law firm in Toronto, and it was from Aubrey,” Hurst told the A.V.
Club. “It was an odd letter that said, ‘Aubrey Graham will not return to Degrassi season 6 as Jimmy Brooks unless his injury is healed, and he’s out
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