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Introduction Drake is a 30 year-old Canadian-born rapper, singer, songwriter, and an actor. He has been through some tough and rough incidents in his life, but he has finally become a successful artist who competes to stand at the first place in Billboard chart. Regarding his success as an artist, we will discuss three aspects of his personality using Big-Five Personality Test — a type of test that examines different taxonomies that all the individuals have: Openness, Conscientiousness, and Neuroticism.
Openness
Drake is a rapper who enjoys adventures. Openness means acceptance to new experiences (Larsen & Buss, 2014) and Drake seems to be quite adventurous to touring around the world. According to the result from IPIP-NEO, Drake scores 58 …show more content…

According to his biography, he has experienced his parents’ divorce at age of 5. He has been educated at the Forest Hill High School — the White Jewish high school — under his mother’s care (Scott, 2011); however, he begins his career in entertainment by starring in “Degrassi”, one of TV shows that is well-known in Canada, and drops off from his high school. He is a talented and determined music producer. Any skilled artist recognizes his talent. He begins his career in Music after stop starring in “Degrassi”. The producers fire him because he becomes too obsessed with rapping (Yohana, 2015), but Lil Wayne contacts him and registers him to Young Money. Lil Wayne has become his mentor since then, seeing his unbelievable achievement in the music industry with a number of publicized tracks. Drake cooperates with The Weekend and Noah 40 Shebib to produce new tracks endlessly. The Weekend and Noah 40 Shebib are new Disk Jockeys (DJs) who have become famous by Drake. Drake and The Weekend build a close friendship after releasing albums, “Take Care” and “House of Balloons” (Aceto, 2013). Drake has some good records for joint tracks with Noah 40 Shebib as well as The Weekend. Noah 40 Shebib regards Drake as the most talented songwriter after the estimated time of five-thousand hours of cooperation in production of their own tracks (Rap-up News,

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