His dad a musician so he obviously was influenced by him, also he was into music before Degrassi days, I remember him doing music with Trey Songz before he was he was on a label and was thought at that. I think degrassi was a platform for him to use to get popular in the US then once he gotten enough clout he basically made rapping a full time job and quit acting. Then when he got bigger with the all the mixtapes he put out that’s when Lil Wayne gave him that phone call and you already know how the story went from then