{"id":791570,"date":"2018-12-26T11:15:48","date_gmt":"2018-12-26T18:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=772425"},"modified":"2018-12-26T11:15:48","modified_gmt":"2018-12-26T18:15:48","slug":"drake-signed-popcaan-to-ovo-sound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/drake-signed-popcaan-to-ovo-sound\/","title":{"rendered":"Drake Signed Popcaan to OVO Sound"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Drake<\/a> gave dancehall fans an early holiday gift. During a Sunday performance at Unruly Fest, Graham announced that Popcaan<\/a> was officially a member of his label, OVO Sound.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is something we\u2019ve worked on for a very long time,\u201d Drake said. \u201cI just wanna let everybody know, finally. Officially, 2019 Popcaan<\/a> is signed to OVO.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Drake announced tonight that in 2019 @PopcaanMusic<\/a> will be officially signed to OVO. #UnrulyFest<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/VdPe4eG6C9<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Word On Road (@WordOnRd) December 23, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Though dancehall artists rarely get this kind of mainstream looks in the States, it\u2019s not a surprising signing. For one, Popcaan makes great music<\/a>. And over the last three years, he\u2019s had an outsized influence on Drake\u2019s music \u2014 he\u2019s featured on the outro of 2015\u2019s \u201cKnow Yourself,\u201d appeared on the leaked version of 2016\u2019s \u201c<\/a>Controlla,\u201d interpolated on \u201cToo Good\u201d and various parts of his slang and vocal delivery made it onto More Life<\/em>.<\/p>\n

During a 2015 interview on 96.1WEFM<\/a>, Popcaan explained his relationship with OVO and how Drake found out about his music.<\/p>\n

\u201cOVO is straight up family because Drake was the one that said OVO Unruly,\u201d Popcaan explained. \u201cDrake has me as Drizzy Drake in Jamaica. So when I view Drake as a young youth that is doing well in the game it\u2019s the same way I view myself also. A lot of my friends from Canada was around Drake was always telling Drake about my music.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Both Drake<\/a> and Popcaan posted photos commemorating the moment. Maybe we can officially get Popcaan\u2019s \u201cControlla\u201d contribution now.<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Drake gave dancehall fans an early holiday gift. During a Sunday performance at Unruly Fest, Graham announced that Popcaan was officially a member of his label, OVO Sound. \u201cThis is something we\u2019ve worked on for a very long time,\u201d Drake said. \u201cI just wanna let everybody know, finally. Officially, 2019 Popcaan is signed to OVO.\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-791570","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 21:30:53","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}