On Monday (September 27th), MTV is set to debut a new live afternoon pop culture-driven show called “The Seven,” which will curate the seven, must know news stories of the day.
The show’s first live in-studio guests are Hip-Hop sensation Drake, as well as the cast of the forthcoming film The Social Network (Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake).
“MTV has played a pivotal part in my career from the beginning and I look forward to being a part of ‘The Seven’ from the start,” Drake told AllHipHop.com in a statement about the new program. 
It’s over – before it even happened.
The plug has been pulled on another free outdoor concert featuring Drake in New York City before the superstar rapper even stepped off the tour bus, the Daily News has learned.
ABC decided not to book the 23-year-old Canadian rapper for a July 16 show in Central Park after the NYPD told the city Parks Department that Parks’ security plan wasn’t up to snuff, Parks and police sources said.
The concert was going to be part of ABC’s “Good Morning America” summer concert series, which has already featured megastars Miley Cyrus, the Jonas Brothers and Alicia Keys.
We were interested in having Drake perform, but he was never officially booked,” an ABC spokesperson said yesterday without elaborating.
A spokesperson for Drake confirmed there was a “booking in place,” but declined to comment further.
The Parks Department could not come up with the security staffing that the NYPD thought would be necessary for such an event, police sources said.
This is the second time a New York show featuring the “Find Your Love” rapper has been called off in less than a month.
Drake’s June 15 free concert at South Street Seaport was abruptly canceled after 25,000 unruly fans who showed up to hear the rap phenom tossed chairs, bottles and flowerpots.
Jimmy Kimmel Twitter Rap Skit
As we all know, Drake was on Jimmy Kimmel Live tonight. It was his 1st time appearing and he did an astonishing job with his skit, performance, and interview. If you missed it, here are tonight’s clips.
Jimmy Kimmel Interview Part 1
Jimmy Kimmel Interview Part 2
Over Performance
Bedrock Performance ft. Nicki Minaj
A scene that didn’t quite make Drake’s Better Than Good Enough Documentary which aired last night on MTV was the Alicia Keys-featured “Fireworks,” the opening song to Thank Me Later. Watch as the collaboration comes to life.
Drizzy paid a visit to The Tonight Show with Jay Leno this morning (June 24) where he flatly crooned a twisted version of his hit single.
He started his performance out on a slow, quasi-acoustic note before his band joined in for a revved up, almost rock n’ roll take on the song, completely diminishing the original Kanye West-blessed beat.
Part 1: Is Drake The ‘Next Big Thing’ In Hip-Hop?
In case you missed it, MTV posted the entire hour-long documentary (the rest is after the jump) on Drake titled “Better Than Good Enough”. Thank Me Later is in stores now. Enjoy, and leave thoughts in the comments.
All MCs have their own writing process. Drake’s incorporates a device many people use for work, nonsense or both: a Blackberry.
Drizzy opens about his artistic process in the new MTV documentary, “Drake: Better Than Good Enough” which airs June 23 at 10 p.m. ET/PT. The Young Money phenom, who rose to fame from the strength of his highly popular online mixtapes, doesn’t mess with a pen and paper when it comes to jotting down his lyrics, and reaches for a smartphone instead.
In this clip from the upcoming doc, Drizzy bops to the track Kanye West produced for “Show Me a Good Time” and then picks up a Blackberry and starts punching out some rhymes.
“All Drake’s raps for eternity have been written inside of a Blackberry,” producer and engineer Noah “40″ Shebib says in the clip. “I mean, to the point where if he doesn’t have a Blackberry, we gotta go get somebody who’s got one. I’ve had dummy Blackberrys around that I just pull out for him to write on, like if he needs one … that don’t actually even work!”
