A student at the University of Miami found herself on the receiving end of one of Drake’s good deeds this week. After the generous Toronto superstar heard about Destiny James’ story, he decided to donate $50,000 to the 20-year-old’s college tuition.
James, a first generation college student, was raised in a single-parent, low-income household, according to ABC News. Despite her challenging background, she’s put in the work to earn scholarship money so she can continue her education. James wrote about the experience on Instagram.
“I was contacted this weekend about doing a video speaking about where I come from, things I’ve been through, and why it is so important for scholarship donors to continue to donate,” she wrote in the caption. “This was the surprise the whole time. Drake told me that he has read great things about me and appreciates how hard I’ve worked through so many trials and decided to give me $50K for my tuition.
“@champagnepapi THANK YOU SO MUCH!!” she continued. “You don’t understand what this means to me! I would’ve never imagined this happening to me. I’m just a girl from Denmark, SC that wants to MAKE IT and be somebody and for you to see my hard work means the world. Thank you so much. God I thank you. You are so great and amazing! Thank you for blessing me when I thought my hard work was going unnoticed.”
Drake was in Miami shooting a video for “God’s Plan.” He shot part of the visual at Miami Senior High School in South Florida, where he donated $25,000 to the school.
In addition to University of Miami and Miami Senior High, Drake also stopped by the Florida city’s Lotus House Women’s Shelter and cut them a $50,000 check.
But he wasn’t done there. Drake reportedly went into a Miami location of Sabor Tropical Supermarket as well and decided to pay for everyone’s groceries. Several Instagram posts from Tuesday (February 6) shows the Grammy Award-winning artist taking selfies with some of the lucky customers.
Drake desperate for attention ever since Kendrick bodied him out of existence
Since when has that Jevv Drake used his riches for kindness????
Meek Mill did it better!!!!
Drake stays copying everyone. Stormzy paid for a college students’ tuition, and Beyoncé paid for everyone’s groceries. Can this guy do ANYTHING original?
There’s always room for giving my guy. Let’s stick to criticizing music.
He should pay the artists whose artwork he steals
He didnt make it lol
he made everyone’s day and that girls life that much better, good looks
Drake copies everyone? Really? So i noticed Kendrick Lamar’s new Black Panther album has Jorja Smith, Weeknd and James Blake. Arent those all artists that Drake either introduced to the world or collaborated with in the past. Doesnt Kendrick Lamar have T-Minus and Boi1da on his production credits ? (Drake’s in-house producers). Seem to remember 7-8 years ago, comments on here talking about a certain non-gangsta rapper who sings over ambient beats as if it was sac-religious to hiphop and he stood out like a sore thumb on the rap charts..,,now thats all you here. Hmmm…Drake probably the most original MC in years – hate him or love him. Real talk
Singing on tracks is wack that is rap bull shit. If i want to hear singing, there is another genre called rnb. I’m a hip hop fan, we do not like singing on our records unless it’s soulful and not pop or horrible singing. Drake, Migos and the rest of the homos are just fads. The radio controls how long these corny ass rappers will be here. Hip hop is based on skills therefore the artists will last until their talent runs out. Rappers are here today and gone tomorrow because without the radio hype machine they wouldn’t last long. These guys aren’t talented. This generation doesn’t listen to rappers that are not on the radio anymore. Lil jon and soulja boy have been missing in action for years.
@ mr hippitty hoppity. So let me get this straight : since singing and rapping is not acceptable. I’m guessing this means we must take these artists out of the “real hiphop” canon as they sing and rap: Biz Markie’s classic “Just a friend”, The Pharacyde, Lauryn Hill and the Fugees, Outkast, Kendrick Lamar…should I just stop here? When De La Soul and RZA were talking about Rap and BS…it was a much different era where hiphop needed to define itself (and BTW it’s clear both those artists dig Drake and have use tons of R&B in their music over the years). U say Drake is a fad but do fads last 10 years? Migos might not be here forever but Drake isn’t going anywhere as he clearly ushered in this new era…U mention bars and skills but can you dissect the bars on “Diplomatic Immunity” ( you can feel free to explain the double and triple entendres right here) which are undebateably razor sharp and in the tradition of hiphop wordplay or can you name another MC who has had a top ten billboard song with no chorus and just bars? The sad reality is by enforcing strict rules around hiphop you are actually not growing the culture but destroying it. Great music has room for innovations and changes. The criticism of Drake is the same criticism traditonalists had when west coast hiphop first came out (“it’s too gangster”) , when southern hiphop became popular (“its not lyrical enough, not street and bama”) and when Biggie Smalls mixture of R&B and hiphop started getting popular (“it’s pop and radio friendly”). It’s nothing new: back in the day many hiphop heads swore off any hiphop that wasn’t grimey with R&B on the hooks and now your arguing R&B hooks are acceptable but anything else isn’t? No real hiphop heads can debate that Drake can spit when he wants to. If u can’t see this, I question ur ability to dissect bars
Ok, you said some interesting comments i can’t front. Let’s deal with fake drake first. I do not consider drake a hip hop artist. He is just a pop rapper. Drake is more popular than good. In other words, he is overrated just like 99 percent of the rappers on the radio. Drake can’t survive without the radio because he is not talented enough. Hip hop artists are skilled mcs that can thrive underground for years. Drake needs the radio to keep pushing bad songs. He couldn’t do that if he was a hip hop artist. Hip hop artists survival is based on good albums year after year. Drake just released a so called 2 song ep that was junk but it still hit the charts. De la soul couldn’t drop 2 wack songs and expect to make the charts. De la soul is hip hop which is based on talent. Drake, lil wayne, lil pump, migos and soulja boy are rap which is based on radio hype not skills. Hip hop music is always changing but it never evolves into pop music. Rap music is weak ass pop music. Hip hop music should never sound pop, unskilled or gay that is rap shit. Hip hop can have singing like biz markie but not rnb mixed with hip hop. Biggie smalls was a sell out because he put out club bangers. Club bangers are club and rap music put together. Lauryn hill was cool because her songs were soulful but not rnb. Hip hop has standards and boundaries but rap is a mixture of fads that will disappear when the radio is tired of them. The Radio can’t kill a career of a talented hip hip artist. They can live underground until their talent runs out. Rapper can’t do the same. Rap music is about promotions. Who is the so called hottest rapper alive. The hottest rapper isn’t really skilled so he can easily be replaced by the next hottest rapper alive. Once radio doesn’t play drake anymore, the rap fans will move on to rapper x. Wack Rappers are interchangeable but hip hop artists are not because they earned their spot. Rappers can’t earn their spot because they lack talent to live without the radio.
White people run rap now. Trash artists are going platinum in a week. It’s not about skill anymore it’s about having an image and appealing to white people. Those are the facts. What’s funny is that they want to argue about what’s real lol. When hip hop dies, the real will come back.
Producers don’t belong to artists lol. They make bread how they see fit. 1da has a track on TPAB. So does flylo and knxwledge. Speaking of which, can we admire how great that album is? Drake doesn’t have a single project topping this.
@ calm down. the posters on here were claiming Drake lacks originality due to buying people ‘s groceries and he’s isn’t original so the original post was a reaction to those comments. The fact that Kendrick is given a pass but uses Drake in-house producers is hypocritical and Boi1da and T-Minus aren’t simply “shared” producers (which is ok in hiphop – BTW, there was a time when it wasn’t) . But they are part of the original OVO crew and Drake brought them up as part of his team from Toronto. He also gave very early collaborations to Weeknd, James Blake and Jorga Smith long before they were popping. It ain’t a diss on Kendrick (cuz i alike Kendrick) but if your gonna say Drake’s lacks originality the same could be send by plenty of artists (Drake is probably the most original actually)
Lol @ the same guy hating 5 different times here – damn drake must of hurt you personally!! Go talk to someone man, the suffering you are going through is hard to watch
#OpenBordersForIsrael
Not a big deal considering he tosses more than the tuition and groceries and shake joints*
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Drake changing lives. People are appreciative. Low lives are arguing in a comment section.
“Might go down a G.O.D., yeah, wait
I go hard on Southside G, yuh, wait
I make sure that north-side eat”
Big deal. It’s like me donating 5c.
The OVO Army is in full effect in the comments. I love it. And 6ix God is doing great things, giving back to schools and college students in need. More than what your favorite rapper has done. Real ting ya kno? #DrakeIsLoveDrakeIsLife #DrizzySZN