Drake has been given credit for helping Pi’erre Bourne get his passport, and for taking the famed producer around the world on his ‘Boy Meets World’ Tour.
Bourne spoke about Drake’s big favor in an interview with Rap TV, and said that Drizzy helped him go through the process of obtaining a passport so he could partake in the Boy Meets World Tour back in 2017.
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“With Drake, when we was on tour, that was cool,” Pi’erre Bourne remarked during an interview at Coachella. “‘Boy Meets World’ tour, that was awesome. We went to Australia and New Zealand. So he actually showed me the world early on, fresh off the couch, my friend’s couch.”
He added: “He got me my passport, like, Drake helped me get my passport again so, yeah.”
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Pi’erre Bourne’s heartwarming anecdote comes as Drizzy finds himself embroiled in an AI-related scandal involving fake Drake songs that began appearing online earlier this year. The latest track to emerge on Soundcloud is called “Not a Game,” which arrived after someone known as Lvcci posted another fake-Drake banger on the platform titled “Winter’s Cold.
However, it was the track “heart on my sleeve,” which also featured AI vocals from The Weeknd, that drew condemnation from Aubrey’s label Universal Music Group.
The label removed the track from streaming services after it reportedly racked up over 630,000 listens on Spotify, and issued a lengthy statement (via Music Week) commenting on the rise of “deep fakes” while asking which “side of history” its stakeholders want to be on.
“UMG’s success has been, in part, due to embracing new technology and putting it to work for our artists — as we have been doing with our own innovation around AI for some time already,” the statement began.
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“With that said, however, the training of generative AI using our artists’ music (which represents both a breach of our agreements and a violation of copyright law) as well as the availability of infringing content created with generative AI on DSPs, begs the question as to which side of history all stakeholders in the music ecosystem want to be on: the side of artists, fans and human creative expression, or on the side of deep fakes, fraud and denying artists their due compensation.”
The last real Drake song to emerge was “Search & Rescue” in April, which he had previewed during an episode of Sound 42’s The Fry Yiy Show on SiriusXM Radio at the end of March. The preview made headlines after Kim and her mother Kris Jenner are heard talking on the song about Kim’s emotional state amid her divorce from Ye.
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As for Pi’erre Bourne, he most recently linked with Frazier Trill for the collab tape Still Trapp’n, and previously dropped off his Space Age Pimpin collab with Juicy J last year.
