The article also mentions that he has a piece of art hanging in his apartment that says "Less Drake, More Tupac," further advancing the idea that Drake knows how to have a sense of humor about himself.For the past four years, he has been chasing a first edition of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, and it's finally on the market for $160,000. "Yeah, I read them all," he says of J.K. Rowling's series, two tiny diamonds glinting from his front teeth as he breaks into a wide smile. I tell him I'm reading the series to my kids, and he immediately peppers me with questions, "What book are you on?" "Goblet of Fire," I respond. "What part?" Then, as if to talk himself into the purchase, he says: "I should get it. My birthday's coming up. Maybe I'll buy it for myself as a treat."
There's also a glimpse at a pre-fame Drake's ambition in this story about him carrying around a photo of a house with a grotto and then buying that specific house, which we gave an audio tour of in this episode (it also has an ATM in it).Yet, despite all the monetary success, three Grammys and artistic cred, Drake possesses a self-deprecating streak, which throws me. The 15-foot white walls of his apartment are mostly bare, save for a neon art piece that says: "Less Drake, More Tupac," from L.A. artist Patrick Martinez. "I love it," he says of the piece that set him back a mere $6,000 but allows him to take a certain ownership of the haters, and there are many who think he's not hard enough. "I mean, people are entitled to their opinion, but this opinion, I'd just rather it be here than anywhere else."
He also touches on his Degrassi years, his faith, and bringing four SUVs of friend to the movies. Read the whole article if you've got five minutes. And listen to the whole podcast if you've got 16 hours.That point was echoed by Future, who offered an anecdote to illustrate Drake's relentless nature. "When we first met, I remember Drake kept a picture of this insane grotto pool on his desktop. Waterfalls, the whole thing. He didn't even know where the house was," he recalls. "He just kept saying, 'I'm going to have that house.' And I really believed. I'll never forget walking into that house with him in Calabasas [in 2012], and he literally wrote a check and bought it." Not a similar house with a similar grotto, but that exact house, for $7.7 million — a bargain given the asking price was $27 million.