Drake Has A New Acting Gig, Set To Star In London Series “Top Boy”

Looks like we’ll be seeing Drake back on the screen coming next year, after buying the rights to popular British crime drama “Top Boy,” and will appear in the show’s upcoming third season.

According to the Daily Mirror, Ashley Walters, who plays Dushane on the show, tells the Daily Mirror that Top Boy‘s producers are creating a role for Drake in addition to his financial involvement: “We met up to start talking about the show and we are working out a role for him. He loves acting, of course he wanted a part. He’s going to be really hands on and is getting stuck into it.”

“In the series, Dushane and Sully—played by Grime artists Ashley Walters and Kane Robinson, respectively—start off as lowly street soldiers running a team of young punks in the fictional Summerhouse projects. Tired of dealing with middlemen, they take matters into their own hands and quickly rise to become the plugs by the end of Season 1. They’re the polar opposites of each other. Dushane is tactical and calculated, while Sully is sloppy and unpredictable, but still the marriage works because both are extremely loyal to one another.”

Drake got his start in the entertainment world as Jimmy on the huit teen show “Degrassi, but left the show to focus on music in 2009. However, in 2015, Drake spoke about returning to his thespian ways. “I can’t wait to get back into acting,” he told “W Magazine.” “No one ever asks me to do movies, and, although music is my focal point now, I’d love to do a film. That was the life that I lived before, and it would be interesting to live it again.”

There is no set premiere date, but it will reportedly be coming to Netflix in 2018. You can watch the first 2 seasons on youtube below.