Drake And Skepta: The History Of Their Relationship

1. How did Drake and Skepta become such good friends?

The pair of them are always throwing nods to one another and more recently, they performed alongside each other at Wireless Festival. Picture: Instagram

2. Drake borrows a line from Skepta's 'That's Not Me' on 'Used To'

Drizzy referenced Skepta's hit on a track on Lil Wanye's 2014 mixtape. “Shout out to the G’s from the ends, We don’t love no girls from the ends,” he raps in homage to the BBK co-founder’s line: “Love for the G’s in the ends, But we don’t love no girls in the ends.”

3. Drake also included 'Used To' on his 'If You're Reading This, It's Too Late' mixtape.

He thanks Skepta in the album credits.

4. Drake posted a still from Skepta and Devilman's legendary 'Lord of The Mics' clash.

Yet another nod to the UK grime star that he likes so much.

5. And then came a post of Skepta spitting bars with Frisco.

He seemed to be on a YouTube grime binge that week.

6. Skepta repayed the favour and sampled one of Drake's Vines on 'Shutdown'.

Drake recorded the Vine, in which he says the now immortalised lines "Man's never been in Marquee when it's shutdown, truss mi daddi", back in 2014. Marquee, where Drake recorded the Vine, is an exclusive Las Vegas nightclub. The phrase 'shutdown' comes from London slang.

7. Naturally, Drake got behind the single posting a link on his Instagram.

8. And he's been singing it ever since...

Did you catch the Instagram video of him in Japanese restaurant Nobu after it's been shut... down? You get the idea.

9. Drizzy got on board when Skepta posted his 'Nasty' freestyle.

10. He's even been sporting a 'Lukey World' t-shirt - something that is close to Skepta's heart.

Here he is repping Skepta with a 'Lukey World' t-shirt. The t-shirts, which have a BBK logo on the back, are a tribute to Skepta's friend Lukey Maxwell who was stabbed to death in June.

11. The first thing Drake did when he touch downed in London was to shout out JME and Skepta.

He references JME's 'Man Don't Care' in an Instagram video message.

12. FINALLY, the two #Shutdown Wireless together with a seriously epic performance.

Drake brought out Skepta to perform the much loved track.

13. Since then, the two have been hanging out at Wimbledon together.

14. The pair then collaborated on a remix of Wiz Kid's single 'Ojuelegba'.

15. Drake claimed that he is signed to Boy Better Know.

16. And then solidified his affiliation by getting a BBK tattoo on his shoulder.

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17. Skepta later returned the favour by getting Drake's OVO owl tatted on his torso.

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18. The pair then popped up as surprise guests at a show for Canadian rapper Smoke Dawg in London.

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19. And collaborated on "Skepta Interlude" on Drake's playlist project 'More Life'.

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