When we figured out that we wanted to work on the project, Cortez flew down to Houston and sat with me and my dad and we talked about how we were going to do it-50/50, with him and Wayne and me and my dad, Young Money and Young Empire. Finally he's like, 'That's my character on this show called Degrassi in Canada.' I was like, 'What the fuck, you act, too?'Р”В¬ortez Bryant is Wayne's manager. One night, I think in San Francisco, we went up on stage before him and the crowd is yelling, 'Jimmy! Jimmy! Jimmy!' And we all were looking at each other like, who the fuck is Jimmy? You got 15,000 people yelling Jimmy and we don't know who the hell Jimmy is but they have Drake's picture on the screen. Then we started working on the So Far Gone mixtape. ThatРІР‚в„ўs when Drake first recorded the original 'Forever' and 'Stunt Hard.' A couple of weeks later that got leaked, and that was the beginning of Drake. When we got there, we went to the studio. I felt like he was timid because Drake was so dope, he was competition.Р”В®ventually Wayne was like, 'I'm about to go to Atlanta tonight, why don't y'all ride with me on the bus?' So we got on the bus with 50 other people, squished up 'cause Wayne was such an asshole that he had his clothes in all the bunks so nobody could sleep and it's about a 15-hour ride on the bus. But then Drake arrived and it was silent treatment. He didn't really speak to Drake at all, so Drake was like, 'Does he not like me?' Before Drake got there, all Wayne was listening to was Drake-and I never really see him listening to nobody but himself, so that was different. When I brought him to Wayne, Wayne was nonchalant. Drake and I had been talking a lot-I was really blowing him up, we was always texting-but that was my first time actually meeting him. But I told him, 'I'm gonna make you famous, I believe in you and I'm going to give it my all. He was being courted by other people at that time, too. I told him I was gonna fly him into Houston because Wayne wanted to meet him, and we flew him in the next day. I give Wayne the phone and Wayne was like, 'Yo, what's up?' Drake was like, 'Who is this?' And Wayne said, 'It's Weezy.' Then he gave me the phone back.Р”Вrake was like, 'Was that really Wayne?' You know how Drake talks. So I called Drake, and he was like, 'I'm getting a haircut, let me call you back,' but I was like, 'Hold up, somebody wants to talk to you.' I played Wayne another song called 'Brand New,' and I'm like, РІР‚СљHe sings, too.РІР‚Сњ Wayne is like, 'Hold up, man, this dude is really fucking dope.РІР‚Сњ He's like, РІР‚СљWhere is he at?' I told him in Canada, and Wayne was like, 'Let's fly him here right now.' When Wayne heard his 'A Milli' remix he was like, 'How did he get this track?' At that time, Drake definitely had an advantage on some people. Wayne was like, 'Who's this?' I was like, 'Oh, this nigga Drake that you told me you didn't like.' Drake had been sending me music, and I was sending him records he was not supposed to have at the time to rap over, to kind of create a buzz. So I put on 'Replacement Girl' and look over and see that he's bopping his head, and I'm like Okay! So I put on another song-an 'A Milli' remix Drake did. I got him a car and he was in my front seat and we were just riding down Westheimer, and I'm always thinking of business, so I'm like, you know what, lemme play some Drake while he's in my car. The next day, he asked me to take him to my jeweler, Exotic Diamonds on Westheimer. Then I threw a New YearРІР‚в„ўs party for Wayne in Houston.

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