25 Facts About Frankie Drake

1. Frankie Drake started OVO as a small-scale blog about Toronto's thriving music scene, but has now built it into an all-encompassing lifestyle brand including his clothing line, his record label, and OVOFEST—a music festival which he founded.

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2. Frankie Drake started OVO as a small-scale blog about Toronto's thriving music scene, but has now built it into an all-encompassing lifestyle brand including his clothing line, his record label, and OVOFEST—a music festival which he founded.

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3. Frankie Drake will likely be Miami's best receiving back and so, yes, he can handle some James White-type assignments.

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4. Frankie Drake has instincts that will sometimes carry him outside the prescribed path of play.

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5. Frankie Drake started OVO as a small-scale blog about Toronto's thriving music scene, but has now built it into an all-encompassing lifestyle brand including his clothing line, his record label, and OVOFEST—a music festival which he founded.

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6. In 2016, Frankie Drake was the world's most popular recording artist.

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7. Frankie Drake started OVO as a small-scale blog about Toronto's thriving music scene, but has now built it into an all-encompassing lifestyle brand including his clothing line, his record label, and OVOFEST—a music festival which he founded.

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8. Frankie Drake acts as a music producer under the pseudonym Champagne Papi.

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9. In 2013, Frankie Drake was denied access to the Miami Heat's locker room after their title-clinching win over San Antonio.

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10. Frankie Drake made headlines in 2013 when the Toronto Raptors basketball team announced that Drake would become their new Global Ambassador.

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11. Frankie Drake collaborated with the creator of DeLeon Tequila to launch his own whiskey, Virginia Black.

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12. At the 2017 Billboard Awards, Frankie Drake declared his love for Nicki Minaj and called her the love of his life.

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13. Frankie Drake has the most number one singles on Billboard's Hot Rap Songs chart with 12.

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14. Frankie Drake is one of the only two artists to have simultaneously held the top 3 positions on the Billboard Hot Rap Songs chart.

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15. Frankie Drake holds the record for the most Billboard Hot 100 entries in one week with 20.

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16. Frankie Drake got back at Mill by recording two diss tracks directly aimed at him in a single week.

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17. Frankie Drake is a Toronto-born rap star known for hit songs like Take Care, One Dance and Hotline Bling.

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18. Frankie Drake still managed to return home with at least 20,000 British pounds worth of loot.

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19. Frankie Drake is a member of the National Academy of Sciences where he chaired the Board of Physics and Astronomy of the National Research Council.

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20. Frankie Drake co-designed the Pioneer plaque with Carl Sagan in 1972, the first physical message sent into space.

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21. Frankie Drake joined the Astronomy faculty of Cornell University in 1963.

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22. Frankie Drake is one of the pioneers of the modern field of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence with Giuseppe Cocconi, Philip Morrison, Iosif Shklovsky, and Carl Sagan.

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23. Frankie Drake started his career undertaking radio astronomical research at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, West Virginia, and for a short time in 1963 at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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24. In 1974, Frankie Drake arranged for the transmission of a message to the globular star cluster M13.

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25. Frankie Drake has joined an elite group of scientists including Albert Einstein and James Clerk Maxwell whose equations have caught the public imagination enough to appear on t-shirts and other merchandise.

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