The Grammy-award rapper/singer sensation of the last few years has an interesting background. Raised in Toronto, Ontario as Aubrey Drake Graham, Drake’s father Dennis was a drummer from Memphis, Tennessee, and his mother Sandi a white Jewish-Canadian. After his parents divorce, his father moved back to Memphis, and Drake became two halves of very different environments. His upper-class “white” status in Canada was held against the rough streets of Memphis, where his father was arrested multiple times. On racial complexes: “That’s a very American thing as well, light skin and dark skin, like I don’t even notice that.”
