Drake Officially Signs With Young Money/Universal

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After months of building a major buzz and speculation over what label to choice Drake has finally signed with Young Money/Universal.

Although the move seems like a no-brainer, due to Drake's heavy affiliation with Lil Wayne, there was much speculation over the past few months on which label home Drake would chose. The Canadian MC appeared with Lil Wayne and the rest of his Young Money camp at Sunday (June 28) night's 9th annual BET Awards further fueling the rumors that he had already picked a recording home and was just waiting to make a formal announcement. The speculation came to a cease yesterday (June 29) as Drake finally signed to the Lil Wayne headed record company.

"Today is a definitely a comfortable day for me, having my team now that's been in place for a couple of years. It's just a great day. It's something new, but it feels familiar," Drake told MTV.

While Universal was always at the top of the list of rumored labels Drake would sign to, others included Jay-Z's Roc Nation with other rumors had the Canadian MC going independent.

When asked about the choice not to go independent Drake said the following, "Independent is a funny term. I can go independent, but you need distribution, period. You need somebody to distribute your record and you need that army that a label has to really push the record."

>>>agree on the Independent label thing he said.



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