Drake

Ice Cube

<a href="/profile/Drake" class="text-word" target="_blank" >Drake</a> shared a receipt from the early days of his career back in 2006, and it shows that he was paid just $100 to open for <a href="/profile/IceCube" class="text-word" target="_blank" >Ice Cube</a>. At the time, Drake was just transitioning from his career as an actor—famously known as &#8220;Wheelchair Jimmy&#8221; on Degrassi—into music, and he had only released his mixtape, Room For Improvement.



“This is for anybody getting 100 a show right now… keep going,” Drake wrote on Instagram.



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The show was put on at the since-closed “Kool Haus” in Drake’s hometown of Toronto. Nowadays, Drake&#8217;s worth an estimated $250 million and has over 122 million followers on Instagram.



Cube previously spoke about Drake&#8217;s success on the Sana G Morning Show in 2018, predicting that the Toronto rapper&#8217;s time on top was <a href="https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/106739-ice-cube-says-drakes-reign-at-the-top-of-the-rap-game-is-ending-news" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">nearing an end</a>.



&#8220;He had a good run,&#8221; Cube said at the time. &#8220;You&#8217;ve only got a three-year run in the rap game. You&#8217;ve only got three years at the tip-top of the rap game before you have to find your place in this thing. That&#8217;s just a pattern. Everybody. Wayne when he was hot, three years on top. <a href="/profile/TPain" class="text-word" target="_blank" >T-Pain</a>. Three years on top, looking for someone else.&#8221;



Check out the receipt from Drake&#8217;s &#8220;Kool Haus&#8221; performance below.



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