Did you know Drake, the Canadian rapper and singer, is a record-breaking artist who has held the No. 1 spot on Billboard’s Hot 100 for most of this year. He’s had more songs in the top 10 than any other solo male artist. He’s even bypassed the Beatles’ 1964 record by holding seven songs in the top 10 simultaneously. And he is tied with the Rolling Stones, Whitney Houston and Paul McCartney for top 10 hits overall.

​Oh, and he’s Jewish. Even if most of his fans don’t know it. He was born Aubrey Drake Graham and grew up in Toronto. His father was African American, a professional drummer from Tennessee, but Drake was raised primarily by his white Jewish mother, a grade-school teacher. According to earlier interviews, he went to a public high school that was largely Jewish but felt he didn’t fit in and was the target of racist remarks, including shvartze.

“I didn’t have the worst time, but I did have a hard time. I was always the last kid to get the invite to the party,” he told Rolling Stone in 2014. At 15, his life changed when he was cast on “Degrassi: The Next Generation,” a Canadian teen TV drama he was on for six years. (He later went back to graduate high school.)