I was wondering when Drake became friends with people Like Chubbs and Baka?

As far as I know he didn't start mentioning them in his songs until the second half of his career when he started to have more of a gangsta persona/allude to violence and street life in his lyrics.

But were these people he was friends with from childhood but never mentioned or did he become closer with them around the same time the tones in his music started changing?

He was still on degrassi.

The other night Chubbs showed up at my house, he had weed for me

Baka was in jail until 2017

He put a call with him on NWTS at the end of From Time

Drake been mentioning Chubbs way before the "gangster" era lmao

Galloway

P. Reign

Nigga been knowing all them dudes since he was a teenager

I thought chubbs being an enforcer guy was a meme

Did some security for him when he started off in 2008/09 after meeting him through Preme and then he asked him to come on tour with wayne with hkm and do security and hes been his top dog since

chubbs got his sidemissions

Keep laughing

Ah ok, thanks for explaining. And thanks everyone else

Chubbs seems nice and friendly though. Like Noah.

Drake is from forest hills and chubbs is from Scarborough, they’re not childhood friends lol. If you know anything about rap , you need some type of street influence and at the time in 09 , Drake was being tested in Toronto because he was the guy from degrassi trynna to jump in the music scene. Once he got robbed at gun point he started to get affiliated with the Galloway boys a gang in Scarborough ( p reigns ppl) and chubbs happened to be apart the same crew. They had a name in the streets , so from that point forward it was a you protect me and I help you type of relationship. They would later become brothers as the years went on, that’s the gist. Remember in 08-09 it wasn’t ovo yet it was ATF(all things fresh) lol I remember all this because I’m 30 and from Scarborough. Real Drake fans would know about all this though.

Detail was asking the same s*** when he was laid up in the hospital!

Yesterday

Bro absolutely not. These guys are all from Kingston Road. They linked up around the time P Reign was popping.. probably replacement girl times. The reality is you can’t be as rich and public .. and a s*** disturber as Drake is in a city like Toronto without getting tapped in (lowkey extorted) or else you’re 100% going to get robbed and made an example out of. This is rap 101 though.. I’m sure they’ve turned into genuine friendships at this point but it’s like how all the wealth concentrates in the top 1%.. the entire rap scene concentrated in the top 1% (Drake) .. that’s why Hush was writing for him, RepsUp protects him etc.. it’s way more productive to pile all of the energy into the one golden child then everyone try and make it on his level and fail.

EDIT: Toronto is a small city and people from all corners seem to know each other, but the reality is at the time Drake was on degrassi any small level of local fame made you a “guy” and everyone knew him and I guarantee at that time he was a lick.. but the east end boys are smart and didn’t kill the golden goose

Begs the question why Drake stayed in Toronto?

Man there’s so much pride if you’re from here. To make it on his level.. it’s enough to make you emotional. Better to be “extorted” at home than abroad, where you have absolutely no roots. It’s kind of table stakes in rap. You have to be public with your wealth, which makes you a target, there’s no way around it. These guys are as close to childhood friends as he’d ever have in the industry. It’s like being the only whale, the city had never really seen it.. move somewhere else in the states and it’s not really that impressive. I think it’s a mix of those things.. surprised the Weeknd didn’t do something similar. I think Drake also likes being the centre of the universe.. maybe the weeknd doesnt, and that definitely comes with staying where you came up if you make it

Nothing like driving down the Gardiner at night going into the city, never gets old..

Chubbs will make you boys remember

g-way boys were the perfect link up for drake honestly, they ran the streets on the west end but they had maturity to their plays

imagine if drake linked with northside jane back then instead for his main guys, s*** woulda be hectic, them young boys dont know how to play the game and they aint got no OG's to keep s*** in check

look what happened when he tried to link regent park, s*** got hectic quick and now their block doesnt even exist

they was posted together back in 08

Trying to be respectful to both sides and not even tryna dive too deep

but I mean it’s hard to compare the two neighborhoods when one been bankrolled by one of the biggest artists ever for at least 15 years

i feel like sometimes people don’t have ogs because the ogs age out and have grown responsibilities fr fr

sad what happened to regent park if we look at it from a non political stance but the game is the game

gotta get in and get out alive