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This weekend was Drake’s 35th birthday. He had a party in Los Angeles with a lot of famous people and a very expensive gift with a story behind it.

Future The Prince (aka Adel Nur), the rap star’s close friend and business manager, gave him a Rolls-Royce Phantom, which he showed off on Instagram on Sunday.

“Back in 2007, we used to finesse this Rolls-Royce Phantom rental to convince people in the city we were destined to make it,” Drake wrote under a video clip from the past that showed him dropping off Nicholas Carino, who would later become his OVO partner. “Somehow I used to scrape together $5,000 a month to keep up the looks.”

 

It had been six years since Drake had played Jimmy Brooks on Degrassi: The Next Generation. A 2013 GQ article said that he was getting $40,000 a year for the role.

“We whipped this to Ottawa to see [rapper Belly] and [Amir Esmailian, now co-manager of The Weeknd] and to Montreal for my first show ever,” wrote Drake. “I used to pick up [Carino] and roll every day or wait outside [then-girlfriend Zineb Samir’s] class for her.”

Drake said he would also park the rented ride outside the condo at 15 Fort York in Toronto where he was working on what would become his 2009 mixtape So Far Gone.

“Even though I don’t recommend putting yourself in financial trouble for material things I realize now that this was just my way of extreme manifesting,” the rapper explained. “I needed to see it and feel it and have it to believe that I could see and feel and have anything I wanted.”

Drake said Future The Prince tracked down the car he used to “stress over” and gave it to him for his 35th.

“It’s mine now. Manifestation complete.

His party on Saturday night at Goya Studios in L.A. had a “Chico Amante” theme, which means “lover boy.” Drake wore a cowboy outfit. French Montana, Offset, Jack Harlow, Future, and Drake’s dad Dennis Graham were all going to be there.