Drake �risks life for show�

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added: 23 Jan 2012 // by: newsdesk 

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Drake risked his life to perform at the Sundance Film Festival at the weekend.

The rapper was a few hours late for his performance at the annual event in Park City, Utah, on Saturday.

He was quick to tell crowds that a snowstorm was the cause.

'I almost lost my life six times to get to this motherf**ker,' he revealed to the crowds waiting for the late-night event.

'My flight was delayed six hours. I was on the curviest roads of my life!'

Drake continued to talk to the crowd about his ordeal during the show. At one point he asked for a lie-down and something to eat.

'I need a massage and a grilled cheese,' he exclaimed a few songs into his set.

According to the New York Post, there were people on hand to entertain the audience while they were waiting for Drake's arrival.

Comic actor Aziz Ansari did stand-up to an impatient crowd. Cuba Gooding Jr. jumped onstage and shouted:, 'Shut the f**k up! We got Aziz here. Let the motherf**ker do his sh*t!'

Aziz insisted he wasn't 'that upset', before Cuba retorted, 'Oh, now the motherf**ker's being funny.'

The actor seemed thankful the stand-up fill-in was over.

'Thank God they paid me a lot of money,' he quipped.

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Drake enjoyed musical �freedom�

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added: 9 Jan 2012 // by: newsdesk 

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Drake had the 'greatest freedom' possible when making his latest album.

The Canadian rapper released Take Care late last year and it debuted at number one on the Billboard album chart.

He worked closely with his friend Noah '40' Shebib on the record, with Drake's record company happy to let the pair lay down tracks on their own. Engineer-and-producer 40 thinks that's why Take Care was such a hit.

'We get to do what we want: we don't have to clear it with the A&Rs or anybody. We are our own A&Rs," he told MTV News. "And that's the greatest freedom you can possibly have in this business.'

The two music stars had worked together before. 40 was involved with So Far Gone, the 2009 mix-tape which launched Drake's career. They also teamed up for his first record Thank Me Later, but neither had anything particular in mind when they started work on Take Care.

'I can't sit there and tell you that anybody made any conscious decisions to the extent of, 'Oh, we're gonna make this feel of an album,'' 40 explained. 'We really just make records and cut music until someone says, 'That's it: You can't make any more music; you gotta stop.''

Drake and 40 work well together and the producer prides himself on helping the rapper get his message across. Drake is adamant all his tunes must mean something to him and he likes to be involved in every aspect of album making, which 40 respects.

'What ends up happening a lot of times with our records is that, because I can do a lot of things in the studio, whether it be play instruments or produce or edit or run Pro Tools or edit vocals, whatever the case may be, I help him get out his ideas," the producer said. "I think that's the goal of any good producer, is to make sure the artist is delivering what they want.'

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