‘You appear to be Drake’s son’: Edmonton youth big hit on TikTok

An Edmonton youth has turn into a TikTok star of kinds after being in comparison with Canadian rapper Drake’s son, Adonis Graham.

Somebody identified that Yemaya Azinia-Service provider bears a placing resemblance to Drake’s younger son and the images evaluating the 2 unfold rapidly throughout the social media platform. As of Friday, it had greater than 1.2 million views since being posted on Wednesday.

The truth is, their similarities even caught the eye of Drake himself.

The 15-year-old says having a well-known doppelganger has been a wild journey.

“I downloaded TikTok every week in the past and I made a video that bought perhaps 50,000 likes, after which I made this one replying to a touch upon that video and it blew up.”

“I didn’t even know Drake had a son, so I didn’t know I appeared like this son as a result of I didn’t even know he existed till somebody commented,” mentioned Azinia-Service provider. “However when my sister confirmed me the picture, I used to be like, that’s type of loopy.”

Azinia-Service provider is a fan of Drake’s music, and when he, together with fellow rapper Lil Yachty, noticed their video, it was an incredible feeling.

“I simply began shaking, I used to be going loopy, screaming, ‘they really noticed the video?’ It was simply actually loopy since you don’t assume one thing like that may occur in such a short while as a result of I downloaded TikTok every week in the past and for somebody like Lil Yacty and Drake to have seen the video is surreal. It simply feels superior.

“I take heed to his music. When God’s Plan got here out, I used to be loopy about that tune. Our college had a rap battle and the academics did it and after that, I used to be simply devoted to that tune for some time.”

Azinia-Service provider is a budding filmmaker and hopes this enhance to their TikTok following helps construct a future profession.

“I’ve been eager to develop a TikTok following as a result of I do stuff within the leisure business with movie, so I assumed this was a great way to advertise that and construct an even bigger following. You all the time have TikToks which have hundreds of thousands of likes and hundreds of thousands of views and also you simply assume — oh what would that be prefer to be on the opposite facet.”

Azinia-Service provider is happy for what could evolve from this glimmer of web fame and has a tongue-in-cheek message for Drake.

“Since I appear to be your child, I’d like to get some little one help happening.”