Drake may have helped turn Young Money into one of hip-hop’s biggest powerhouse labels, but there was a time when he wasn’t even allowed on Lil Wayne‘s tour bus.

Adam Bhala Lough, the director behind Weezy’s iconic The Carter documentary, spoke with music journalist Andre Gee for his Substack newsletter about the making of the film, as well as the sequel which recently leaked online.

Reflecting on capturing Weezy at the peak of his powers during Tha Carter III era, Lough shared an amusing anecdote involving Drake and his “dorky” disconnect with the rest of Young Money.

“The majority of the time when I wasn’t shooting with Wayne, but when I was on set, Wayne would disappear and I was just hanging out with Tez [Bryant, Wayne’s then-manager], Mack Maine and Nicki Minaj,” he said. “At one point, I spent some time with her before Wayne did The Jimmy Kimmel Show, when nobody knew who she was, and they wouldn’t even let Drake on the bus. He was, like, such a dork that they wouldn’t even let him on the bus.”

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