This Is Not A Drake Podcast Showbiz and Celebrity Breaking News

CBC’s newest podcast, aptly titled This Is Not A Drake Podcast, uses the star as a springboard into conversations about everything from autotune to gender roles; dedicating its episodes to the context and historical groundwork of The Boy’s meteoric rise and the moments that made it possible. Host Ty Harper, alongside producers Anupa Mistry and Del Cowie, showrunner Josh Bloch and consulting producer Dalton Higgins offer a glimpse into a pre-Drake Toronto and a post-Drake world.

Rappers have been singing on their songs from the very beginning. You only have to listen to Kevie Kev’s “All Night Long,” to hear melody making its way into some of the earliest rhymes.

“I told my story, it made history,” Drake boasts on “Crew Love,” one of the first tracks on his colossal sophomore album Take Care. It’s a pretty congruous flex.