Aubrey "Drake" Graham born October 24 1986 Is A Canadian Rapper Singer Songwriter Record Producer Actor And Businessman. Drake Was An Actor On The Teen Drama Television Series Degrassi The Next Generation In The Early 2000s. Intent On Pursuing A Career In Music He Left The Series In 2007 After Releasing His Debut Mixtape Room For Improvement. He Released Two Further Independent Projects Comeback Season And So Far Gone Before Signing To Lil Wayne's Young Money Entertainment In June 2009. Read More On Last.Fm
“Toosie Slide” Marks Drake’s First Foray Into Dance Records As He Raps The Instructions To The Titular Dance. He Also Boasts About His Dancing Skills And Compares Them To The Legendary Michael Jackson. The Song And Its Accompanying Dance Are Named After Famed Atlanta Choreographer Toosie Who On March 29—five Days Before The Song’s Release—posted A Video Of Him Along With Other Dancers Hiii Key Ayo & Teo Doing The Dance Which Later Went Viral. In An Interview With GQ A Day Before The Song Was Released Toosie Spoke On How The Song And It’s Dance Came About “ Drake Had A Record Idea And Needed Me To Come Up With A Dance To It. Everybody Was Contributing Little Moves And Slowly But Surely We Started Piecing It Together. He Went Back And Finished The Song After We Sent Him The Dance. Then He Called Me And He Was Like “Yo Everybody Is In Love With The Dance. Everybody’s Been Doing It. We’re All Calling It The Toosie Slide Right Now. It’s Sticking And We Might Just Call The Song That.” Later On He Let Me Know He Was Officially Going To Name The Song “Toosie Slide.” I Was In Shock. I Couldn’t Even Believe It.” The Single Is Drake’s First Official Release On All Streaming Platforms And Third Release Overall In 2020 Following The Future-Assisted “Desires ” Which Was Released In January And “Chicago Freestyle” And “When To Say When”—both Which Were Released Four Weeks Prior To This Song. “Toosie Slide ” Along With The Three Other Songs Were Later Placed On Drake’s Fifth Mixtape Dark Lane Demo Tapes.