After dropping out of high school to support his family, staring as Degrassi’s James “Jimmy” Brooks for seven seasons, and becoming a famous rapper, Drake has graduated high school at 25. In an interview with Complex last year he spoke about his decision to dropout saying, “My mother was very sick. We were poor, like broke. The only money I had coming in was off of Canadian TV, which isn’t that much money when you break it down … A season of Canadian television is under a teacher’s salary, I’ll tell you that much.”
The official graduation took place on Wednesday. He went on to tweet, “97% on my final exam. 88% in the course. One of the greatest feelings in my entire life. As of tonight I have graduated high school!” Drake then added, “Thank you to my teacher Kim Janzen for spending the last 5 months working tirelessly with me!! OVO SOUND.”
[Via Celebrity Cafe]
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Claudia McNeilly is an editorial intern at the Toronto Standard. You can follow her on twitter at@claudiamcneilly
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