
I don’t like a lot of people around when there’s a task at hand.”Ĭase in point, I find no entourage here, only longtime manager and business partner Adel “Future” Nur, 32 (not to be confused with Future, the Atlanta-born rapper). “It’s best for me to find an atmosphere that’s quiet. “My wheels just start spinning faster than most people’s at that hour,” says the 31-year-old rapper-musician and former teen actor, dressed in a navy blue tracksuit and plain white Nikes. The night before, he started plowing through musical ideas - an instrumentation, a beat, an arrangement - well after midnight, and he didn’t stop until 10 a.m. “This interview is kind of early for me,” he admits, though it’s presently 1:45 p.m. He dives deep, albeit on his own schedule.

That’s just the way he approaches any subject that interests him.


Though he no longer has a house in Miami, Drake is transfixed by the news. Stepping into Drake’s apartment on the 52nd floor of a Toronto high-rise, with sweeping, unobstructed views of the CN Tower and Lake Ontario in the distance, all is quiet, save for a large-screen TV playing nonstop coverage of Hurricane Irma on CNN.
