Drake Motivation: 10 Easy Habits that Make EVERYTHING in Your Career Successful!

While you're on the journey, you have to disconnect from the end goal. I think every time I say I'm about to do something, people are waiting for me to fumble. I never want to be always right because then I can't grow, I can't learn. I always want to outdo everybody else around me. I'm a very competitive person, I'm just quiet about it. You know, I use positive inspiration as opposed to like, "Oh man, that guy still owes me." I keep a constant notepad of just ideas, play-by-play. I'm a naturally poised individual. You have to do something that nobody else has done or else there's no point. That's how I see it. If that product that you have is potent enough, you will be the next big thing. Something's gonna happen. It's on. He's a Canadian rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, and actor. His work has earned him a Grammy Award, 3 Juno Awards, and 6 BET Awards. He has the most number 1 singles on the Billboard Hot Rap Songs chart. He's Drake, and here are his top 10 rules for success. I don't care about number— like, I don't want number one spots. It's just like, you know, 4 or 5 weeks ago, there was another guy that was in the number one spot according to the entire world. And then next week, 2 weeks from now, when somebody else does it, all these discussions about, like I said, number ones and classics, and I don't want to— I don't care. I just want to make good music, and I just want you to enjoy it. And as long as we have that relationship for the duration of this career, I'm good. Like, I don't need to, like, I don't, you know? And maybe that's why people say I'm there, because I really, I disconnect from it, you know? My uncle always told me something early in my life which stuck with me, which is that while you're on the journey, you have to disconnect from the end goal, you know? Because if you're just focused on some end goal, then you might get there, But it'll be hard to progress past that because you're so focused on that one destination that it's like, you know, you maybe forget everything in between, and maybe you could have done more in between. Just be— he always told me, like, just be here right now. Live right now and do the best you can right now. Don't worry about what that end goal is. It's great to have goals. It's great to have dreams. But it's just like you get too attached to it, and sometimes it could be a self-destructive thing. So I mean, I just kind of try and— progress as much as I can, like right now. I think every time I say I'm about to do something, people are waiting for me to fumble. That's probably one of the biggest motivations behind a lot of my raps is the amount of people that want me to fall or whatever. I think that that should be the motivation for most rappers, you know. The further you climb towards the top, the more, the more hands you have on your pant leg dragging you to the bottom. They just start tugging at you, but You know, I wear really strong pants. I never want to be always right because then I can't grow, I can't learn. So I have no desire to be always right. I need mistakes, you know. And luckily enough, and knock on this wooden piano here, that like, you know, my mistakes are never crucial enough for me to be like, "Man," you know. They're always great learning experiences. I always want to outdo myself. I always want to outdo everybody else around me. I'm a very competitive person. I'm just quiet about it. I'm not really out there, like, talking about who I want to outdo. I'd rather just go and outdo it, you know what I'm saying, as opposed to just sitting back and being like, oh, you know, I don't need to tell you who I'm better than or who I'm trying to be better than. I just want to put my music out, and then you tell me who's better than me. Then, you know what I'm saying? That's, I mean, I leave it up to the people, you know? And as far as like, how do I get better? I push myself really hard. I mean, I have great opinions in the studio. You know, like me, myself, Hush, we all sit in the studio and, sorry, me, myself, Hush, that makes no sense. Me, 40, and Hush. I need that drink whenever you guys are ready. Yeah, you know, we all sit in the studio and I don't sacrifice like— or I try not to sacrifice any bar, you know. I mean, I'll sit there on the last 2 lines of a verse for 3, 4 days if I need to, you know, just to figure out how to end it. You know, I want it to be cohesive. I always want the beginning of a verse to be strong. I always want the end to be strong. And I really, really, really spend a lot of time on bars, man, you know. Luckily for me, melodies come extremely easy, you know, knock on wood. But they do. I mean, that is something that naturally, like, I just get in there and it starts flowing. And by 40 minutes in, an hour in, I have pretty much the direction I'm going in. But when it comes to raps, I spend a lot of time on it, man. I'm not going to sit here and be like, oh, you know, that's all off the top, baby, you know what I'm saying? Like, nah. I spend a lot of time. When you're in the lab going and crafting the music, is there somebody that you think about from your past that you're like, you know what, for every time such and such gave me a wedgie, or for every time that girl like fronted on me, I do this for that, you know, I do this for that. Nah, it's more, um, it's more the influential people that I know. I don't really think about the people that did negative things to me. I think about the individuals like, um, like Wayne, like Ross, like Ye, like the guys that I know, you know. If I take tonight off, I know that one of them is probably in the studio crafting something magical, you know. So I should probably stay a little longer. I should probably not go to the club. I should just, you know, work because I know that there's somebody else working if I decide to go play, you know what I'm saying? So I just use like individuals, you know, and especially like probably one of the most influential people like in that regard obviously is Wayne, but you know as well Jay is one of those guys too. That's one guy like you can guarantee if he's going in there rapping, it's gonna be something, something great. So I just use people, you know, I use positive inspiration as opposed to like, like, oh man, that guy still owes me. It's all good, man. I'm in a great positive headspace right now. I don't want to give anybody no problems. I don't want no problems. I just want people to like appreciate this music. So my thing is like usually when I'm in my phone, you know, it's because you said something or you said something or someone said something that's prompted me to be like, oh, I got to write that down. It doesn't even have to rhyme, you know, right away. It doesn't have to be, you know, a thought, you know, it doesn't have to be a bar. It just can be like something you said Like even like I think the last thing I wrote down was like someone last night was like, "Man, I feel like I've become a recluse." And I was like, "Man, recluse, that's such a great word. I love that word." And I just write down, I write down like, "Use the word recluse," you know, somewhere. So if you hear recluse in a rap, it's 'cause someone said it. Someone said it. Right. So it's just like those type of things. I mean, I keep a constant notepad of just ideas, play by play. If you read through that notepad, you could really see where my mind is at, where my life is at. But no one is allowed to read through that, nope. I made a commitment very early on to just be myself, you know? And what really bothers me the most is the fact that, you know, sometimes I feel like I don't get enough credit or I'm not making a big enough impact because I'm not enough of a loose cannon, you know, in situations like this where we're doing a one-on-one interview or, you know, that people just want me to go off more and lose my composure. And then that way, you know, I guess maybe I would be like— Cooler? Make more headlines or be more iconic, but that's not me, you know. I'm a naturally poised individual. I don't want to just come out, you know, making mistakes and having to be like, "Ah." That's the thing, right? Like you said, you know, a lot of artists just have MySpace and just have, you know, a couple songs and don't have a website, don't have marketing, don't have anything. And then they get disappointed when they only sell like 70 records, you know, and it's like, you gotta understand that this is about marketing. Like, this whole thing is about marketing. It's about your image. It's about your story. You got to be appealing to people. And if you're going to release a record in Canada, you have to do something that nobody else has done, or else there's no point. That's how I see it. So all I want to say is, what do I have to do, or any artist in this room have to do, to get noticed by you? That's a great question. I think I think that for anybody, what you have to understand is like, there's a way to exist in this world that's like, we've never had it before, but like, I strongly believe in the fact that if you have a good product, for the first time ever, there's a way to like get the world to hear your product And if it's good, you will see the results from it. You understand what I'm saying? Like, there's people that, you know, artists will drop a mixtape, and if that mixtape picks up, you know, whether it's like House of Balloons or Party Next Door, like, he'll get like— I remember seeing when House of Balloons dropped, I remember people being like, yo, I'm in the Netherlands right now listening to House of Balloons. It's like, what? Like, you know, we have such a platform to access the entire world. And my biggest thing to you, your question was how do you, I guess, catch the attention. It's just about finding your own moment and having the music be great. As cliché as that sounds, but it's just like, man, there's not a lot of great music to choose from. So when somebody is great, the world will let you know. Trust me. It doesn't take me. It doesn't take this guy. The world will let you know. All you have to do is put it out there. And there are people who scour the internet every day looking for the next big thing. And I promise you, if that product that you have is potent enough, you will be the next big thing. And I feel like that's it, you know. Gentlemen, the movie is testing through the roof. We're gonna have ourselves a hit, right? I just want to say it's all thanks to this guy, man. I love working with you, man, straight up. You know, when we started this movie, you and I were co-stars. Now you're my brother. All we need now is a title. Okay. Um, well, I mean, best to keep it simple, no? It's like Drake and Blake. Yeah, the people in it, we could call it. Yeah, maybe. But I also like Blake and Drake. Blake and Drake. Yeah. Do we love Blake and Drake, though? Or do we, like, genuinely love Drake and Blake, like, right when you hear it? Why don't we just take the beginning of my name and the end of your name and just Blake. Bam, Blake, bam, done. Bam, bam, bam, bam, bam. Just comes right together. Yeah, yeah. It just gets like, it's like hard to say, you know? It's like, "Blake and Drake." But it's like Drake and Blake. Drake and Blake. Hey guys, guys, guys, guys. Hey, you know what? Hey. We have a week to make this decision. I mean, I'm sure something will happen to make Blake change his mind. Oh, something's gonna happen. Something's gonna happen. It's on. Hey, cutie. Hey. Someone sent you a twerk-a-gram. Okay, well, let's get to twerking then. What's up? Oh, God. Oh, Blake. Wait, I thought this was a car commercial. Just get in the tub. Slates up, please. And action. There you go. It's a great day. Everyone's happy. And look back. Look at the horizon. Look at your career. Look what you've become. Who cut his hair for this? That's what I wanna know. All right, once the anesthesia kicks in, we will be removing the patient's appendix. But first, there's donuts in the kitchen, guys. What? Oh, my God. You're the surgeon? Oh, I'm not the surgeon. He is. Yo, yo, yo. Breezy. Blake and Drake. The internet has killed you for doing too much flopping. How do you respond to your critics? I would like to say, as Blake Griffin, that I love flopping. You know, I mean, there's so much demanded of me that, you know, a lot of the time it's just better for me to fall down and take a little rest. Hey, what's up everybody? I'm Drake and this message goes out to all of my fans. Fuck you. I really don't have much integrity. They try to get me to do the NBA Cares commercials and I always kindly decline. You decline the NBA Cares commercials? Not really. I'm just not into children. All right, all right, all right. Let me lay it down. This is the new sound of Drake right here. Ski bop shi do bop bop bop bop bop. I am Drake and I like you, girl. I think a lot of people are extremely confused about my face. I kind of look like a black guy that jumped into a pit of Cheetos and just laid there for, for like 10 days and then popped up. I tell people I'm half black. But really, I don't know. Do you know what team has the most white players? 'Cause that's probably where I wanna go. I'm not sure you're gonna have a career after this. And let's print that. I like it a lot. I think that's gonna be great. I think it's really gonna up my street cred. So what do you think Donald Sterling's message was? Uh, that not all people are equal, and I agree with it. I'm actually glad this is being filmed. Anyway, I'm Blake Griffin, part of the dominant white race, and I would just like to let you guys know— Thank you guys so much for watching. We made this video because Rise Online asked us to. If you have any famous entrepreneurs that you want us to profile next, please leave it below. I'd also love to know which of Drake's rules meant the most to you, had the biggest impact. Leave in the comments below and we'll join the discussion. Thank you so much for watching. Continue to believe, and we'll see you soon.