If you’re waiting to upload your iPod or your iTunes list, you’ll want to check out some of the up-and-coming artists for 2011. Here are eight to keep an eye on.
Canadian child star-turned-hip-hopster Drake has lost a pair of fans in Jacksonville, Florida after the rapper and his bodyguard allegedly attacked the autograph seekers at nightclub in the sunny city last Thursday night.
He’s the most-raved about hip-hopster to hit The Rap World in more than a decade — a fact which makes it easy to forget that Aubrey “Drake” Graham is actually a former child star, who once cut his teeth playing “Wheelchair Jimmy” on the Canadian teen series Degrassi: The Next Generation.
Now 23, Drake recently chatted with Paper Magazine August 2010, where he revealed that his acting days aren’t behind him just yet. And you’ll never guess the world leader he hopes to play next.
A second free concert in New York City featuring the somewhat-nerdy hip-hopster has been canned after New York City Police and Parks Department officials grew concerned over the sizable crowd the event would have likely attracted to Manhattan’s Central Park.