Jas Prince | Before They Were Famous | The Man Who Discovered Drake

Before becoming the man who first discovered Drake, Jas Prince was
born on October 30th, 1987 in Houston, Texas to his mother, Mary,
and his father, James Prince – the CEO of Rap-A-Lot Records. Back
when Rap-A-Lot was still looking to find its footing, Jas recalls
showing up at his father’s business to sweep the floors, work in
the mail room, and occasionally hype up the label’s newest release
as a member of the street team. Since then, the company has
established a reputation as one of hip-hop’s most influential
labels, an estate that Jas may one day very well inherit for
himself. But with his father still going strong and not looking to
retire anytime soon, Jas recognized he’d have to make his own way
in the industry and he’d wind up doing so by discovering one of the
biggest celebrity talents of recent memory. Looking to follow in
his father’s incredibly successful footsteps, in 2007, a then
19-year-old Jas went searching for an artist of his own to groom.
While still in college, he scoured the internet for a potential
client and ultimately stumbled upon the MySpace page of a Canadian
rapper named Drake.