Was he autistic? >[Joe] Boyd's attempts to foster Drake's

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Was he autistic?

>[Joe] Boyd's attempts to foster Drake's career were going nowhere. He had given Drakes's two albums to the French singer, Francoise Hardy. She loved them and expressed an interest in Drake writing songs for her, so Boyd took him to Paris to meet Hardy at her apartment on the Isle St. Louis.
>"It was excruciating. Nick sat there, head down, drinking his tea and didn't say a word the whole time; and I had to fill in the awkward silences." Nonetheless, the meeting ended with a resolution for Drake to write some songs. But somehow he never got round to it.

>In those days you didn't have cassettes—he brought a reel-to-reel tape [to me] that he'd done at home. Half way through the first song, I felt this was pretty special. And I called him up, and he came back in, and we talked, and I just said, "I'd like to make a record." He stammered, "Oh, well, yeah. Okay." Nick was a man of few words