Drake was on a song with three big rap artists BEFORE he dropped an album and his father been in the music industry for years before he came on the scene. If that doesn’t scream “industry plant”, then you’re just an dikkriding fakkit who opinion on hip hop is invalidated.
Drake is a clown but y'all are even goofier when y'all make up these surface level connections of how someone got on
He paid for the features breh , if you have the amount that the artist is asking for they will do the feature regardless of if your popping or not. Snoop has a ton of features with a bunch of bums no one knows, are they also plants? This is normal as hell for anyone who's actually in the industry and trying to get on.
You can also just trade other things of value instead of money it just depends on the situation and timing.
My uncle was a jazz musician just like his father, put out saxophone albums and everything, that shyt doesn't mean ANYTHING

if you think some nikkas in rap give a damn about your jazz musician relative and that somehow gives you the keys to the industry....

Dennis wasn't running shyt in any capacity he just played the drums when someone cut him a check, no different than your local band performance.
Yall call people plants because they were smart enough to network properly before throwing music on the Internet

that's not a plant that's just someone having good business sense.
he was an actor so he already saw first hand how much business happens behind the scenes before something gets marketed to the world.