''Room for Improvement'' is the debut

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by Canadian rapper Drake. It was self-released on February 14, 2006, by All Things Fresh. Issued as a retail project, it sold 6,000 copies by the end of that year. It features contributions from Toronto natives Slakah the Beatchild, Frank Dukes, and

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; as well as American singer

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and American rapper Nickelus F.

Background

In February 2006, in an interview with ''thabiz.com'', Drake talked about the

, "It's a mix CD and I did it with DJ Smallz, who does the Southern Smoke Series. He's done mixtapes with everyone.

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, a lot of people and he's hosting it for me. It's called Room for Improvement. It's seventeen original tracks and a couple of remixes and stuff like that. 22 tracks in total. I have the Clipse on there, I got Trey Songz in there, I got

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on there, I have Nickelus F, who is this amazing artist from Virginia, who I'm very very tight with and we work together a lot, we worked together. I have Voyce on there, he's a singer from Toronto. Production wise I don't really have any major producers on there. I have a song I did with

. I have an individual by the name of Nick Rashur from Harlem he's a really cool cat. Amir; Boi-1da did the majority of the singles, who else should I mention DJ Ra from DC, a lot of people on the CD." The mixtape was re-released in 2009, featuring only 11 selected songs, with no DJs along with a

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of 'Do What You Do'.

Track listing

Partial credits adapted from Drake's personal notebook. Notes * "Pianist Hands" features uncredited vocals from Mazin's dad * "Make Things Right" features uncredited vocals from Slakah the Beatchild

Personnel

Partial credits adapted from Drake's personal notebook. Musicians * Al-Khaaliq – piano

References

Drake (musician) mixtape albums 2006 mixtape albums Debut mixtape albums 2006 compilation albums Albums produced by Boi-1da Albums produced by Frank Dukes OVO Sound mixtape albums {{2006-hiphop-album-stub