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

Before They Were Famous

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.