New Drake Tour Dates, Sprite Commercial & Announcement of 1st Single "Over"

Pretty cool commercial that debut over the weekend, centered around with the NBA All-Star game. They're really milking Forever for all it's worth, but for good reason, 4 of the hottest MCs one one track. Solid intro to the commercial building energy for Drake jumping head first into his verse with Sprite providing "The Spark" to his flow...


On a funny note, Chuck Inglish of the Cool Kids commented on the commercial via Twitter:

"@Chuckisdope: Now if I was on the mixing boards. And my homie in the booth rapping ... Transformed in to a robot breaking to pieces .. I'm Leaving"

Haha...that's good stuff. In other news, Drake just leaked the fact that his first single is going to be titled Over. Normally, that wouldn't be newsworthy, but as anticipated as Thank Me Later is becoming, it deserves mention. See below...


Along the same lines, here are the upcoming tour dates from the Campus Conscious Tour that Drake is headlining along with Canadian rapper K-OS and Francis & The Lights, a synth-pop band based in New York City.

Tour Dates:

4/06/2010
Charleston, IL
Eastern Illinois University

4/07/2010
Columbus, OH
Private Location

4/09/2010
State College, PA
Penn State University

4/10/2010
Boston, MA
Private Location

4/11/2010
Lock Haven, PA
Private Location

4/14/2010
East Lansing, MI
Michigan State University

4/15/2010
Rochester Hills, MI
Oakland University

4/16//2010
Morgantown, WV
West Virginia University

4/21/2010
Orlando, FL
University Central Florida

4/22/2010
Greenville, SC
Furman University

4/23/2010
TBA

4/24/2010
New Orleans, LA
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival

4/26/2010
Kansas City, MO
University of Missouri – Kansas City

4/27/2010
Lexington, KY
University of Kentucky

4/29/2010
Lowell, MA
University Mass Lowell

4/30/2010
Syracuse, NY
Private Location

5/01/2010
Boston, MA
Private Location

5/01/2010
East Rutherford, NJ
Bamboozle Festival

5/04/2010
Worcester, MA
Holy Cross

5/05/2010
Towson, MD
Towson University

5/06/2010
Cheney, PA
Cheyney University

5/07/2010
Ithaca, NY
Private Location

5/08/2010
Plymouth, NH
Private Location
Furthermore, it's awesome for Drake that he makes $75-$80k per concert, which is as much as say Ludacris and Snoop...already!! I learned of this thanks to the always intriguing folks over at The Smoking Section, who brought this to my attention. I always wondered what the splits were like as far as how much artists made per concert. It's a tragedy that Keri Hilson makes $20-$30k per show...you wanna talk about a bargain. Oh wait, what about The Cool Kids who pocket $10k per show...better get to booking them soon cause that's about as "buy low" of a stock you could ever imagine. Man, if I had a venue I'd be makin' bank hosting some of these artists....