Drake Sets a Date for Knee Surgery

Drake, who tore his ACL in a show while performing with Lil Wayne, had set after the injury he would be getting knee surgery the next day. It turns out Drake had injured the same knee previously, and was wearing a brace at the time. Rather than getting the much needed surgery, Drake put it off.

On Sunday Drake announced he would finally be getting surgery for his three torn ligaments on September 8. Drake described the night of the injury:

"The stride that I had, I planted with my right and I had a brace on," he recalled of the moment. "I would say it was borderline more painful than the initial tear. It was bad. It buckled, popped. I was down. I remember slapping the ground. I couldn’t believe it. I saw the lights coming down. [And I was thinking] ’Did I just fall?’ I was in so much pain then that I didn’t care at the time. They actually cut a nice pair of jeans that I had, all the way up. Bad. But it’s all part of my story. I feel like maybe it needed to happen. I came out on that tour for one reason and one reason only – I didn’t show up for the money or the fact that I even needed it right now. I showed up there for the fans that genuinely saw me on the tour [bill] and said, ’That’s why I’m going.’"

Drake’s big mistake is that he didn’t take care of business, his knee, before taking care of business, entertaining his fans.