Drake and other stars of Degrassi are opening up about their experience working on the hit Canadian teen drama.

“I didn’t have a great time in high school. I just didn’t really fit in,” the rapper, 38, said in the Wednesday, August 27, trailer for the documentary Whatever It Takes about life before he joined the cast of Degrassi. “And one day my mom called me and told me, ‘You got the role,’ and I just grabbed my bag and left.”

He added, “Man, what a wild journey that started.”

Drake (real name Aubrey Drake Graham) starred in Degrassi: The Next Generation from 2001 to 2008 as Jimmy Brooks, the school’s star basketball player. (Degrassi: The Next Generation was the fourth installment of the Degrassi franchise, which began in 1976.)

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