Jimmy Brooks: Last News

Drake has revealed that he had gotten high before auditioning for the role of Jimmy Brooks in Degrassi: The Next Generation.Ahead of the ‘It’s All A Blur’ tour with 21 Savage – find details below and buy tickets here – Drake took to Instagram to share an audio recording in which he reflected on his past – which includes his time on Degrassi – and the future.“Someone asked me the other night what my biggest fear is, and I’ve never really had a good answer for it, but my answer was that all this is for nothing. Kind of the idea that one day, life ends and it just all goes black. And I guess that question sent me, you know, obviously deep into a spiral of thought,” he said to start off.Drake continued: “And it makes me think about my life and how surreal it feels at times.

Drake is opening up about the “high” of auditioning for Degrassi… Literally.

Drake and 21 Savage got fans riled up on Saturday as they announced upcoming release of their joint album, titled Her Loss.The duo made the reveal in the music video for their hit song Jimmy Cooks, which debuted on YouTube Saturday.In the Mahfuz Sultan-directed video, Drake and 21 Savage snuck in the album's title as well as its Friday, October 28, release date. Big announcement: Drake and 21 Savage got fans riled up on Saturday as they announced upcoming release of their joint album, titled Her Loss (pictured Oct.

Drake and 21 Savage have announced the release date of their joint album, “Her Loss,” which will be on Friday, October 28.

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It's entirely possible that a majority of Drake's fans were introduced to him as a rapper rather than as Aubrey Graham, child actor behind the character of Jimmy Brooks on Degrassi: The Next Generation. In the teen drama's fourth season, Jimmy is paralyzed after a school shooting and becomes a wheelchair user, one of the show's most iconic character arcs thanks in no small part to Drake's subsequent superstardom.

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.

Degrassi: The Next Generation has revealed that Drake threatened legal action against the show, in which he co-starred, over a wheelchair storyline.The rapper appeared as Jimmy Brooks in the Canadian drama from 2001 over seven seasons.However in a recent oral history of the show to mark its 20th anniversary, writer James Hurst explained that the then actor pursued legal action after his character wound up in a wheelchair.“There was a letter from a law firm in Toronto, and it was from Aubrey [Graham, aka Drake],” Hurst told AV Club.“It was an odd letter that said, “Aubrey Graham will not return to Degrassi season six as Jimmy Brooks unless his injury is healed, and he’s out of the wheelchair.”The writer called Drake in to get to the root of

If Drake got his way, Jimmy Brooks would’ve had a very different ending on Degrassi. According to a writer on the teen drama, the rapper, whose full name is Aubrey Drake Graham, threatened to quit the series if his character remained in a wheelchair after season 5.

Before he became one of the biggest musical artists of his generation, Drake started his showbiz career as Jimmy Brooks in the Canadian TV series Degrassi: The Next Generation... though he almost left the show early.The 34-year-old Toronto native played Jimmy Brooks from the start of the show in 2001 before leaving halfway through the eighth season.Degrassi: The Next Generation writer-producer James Hurst revealed in a wide-ranging AV Cluboral history of the show for its 20th anniversary that the singer (real name Aubrey Graham) almost left when Jimmy became paralyzed and was bound to a wheelchair.

Drake allegedly almost left “Degrassi: The Next Generation” because of his character’s storyline.

Drake may be the one of music’s biggest names, as well as a ruler of a recording and clothing business empire today. But in the aughts he was teenage actor Aubrey Graham, star of Canada’s teen drama Degrassi. His co-star from those days, former The Vampire Diaries star Nina Dobrev, 32, is reminding Drizzy of his time on the show thanks to the most amazing greeting card she discovered.

It’s the return of Jimmy Brooks! Drake warmed his fans’ little millennial hearts when he posted a screenshot from an old Degrassi: The Next Generation episode on Instagram. The May 14 throwback shows a very young Drake, now 33, chilling in a rec room with a group of chatting girls, while looking straight at the camera. He’s wearing baggy denim cargo pants and an army jacket, as one did in the aughts. The pic is a bit grainy, which is understandable; there’s a logo for The N, Nickelodeon’s short-lived network geared toward teenagers, in the corner. We’re looking at an ancient relic here, people. Drake simply captioned the photo “JB,” as in Jimmy Brooks, his iconic character. See the photo below!