“Long before Makonnen Sheran caught Drake's ear, he was just like any other cooped-up kid with a Myspace account and a modest home-recording setup—making a series of profoundly strange warbling ballads and constantly reaching out to kindred spirits he encountered on the internet. One of those fellow weirdos was Eric Littmann, a New York-based musician recording as Phantom Power and Steve Sobs, who ”
