Drake paid his way into the industry. UPDATED with quotes from 40 denying the ghostwriting
- Thread starter Day_Walker
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I don't doubt drake gets help with concepts and hooks but I'm pretty sure he writes his own verses and maybe gets some help from those in the studio over some lines but not writing any of his stuff? Unless there is substantial proof, I don't believe it.
i dont know one male drake fan who would say he has a classic though. girls would but not men. i only know 2 real drake fans in real life though. my brother and one of my best friends
Day_Walker
All Star
@WickedGames you just ignore this huh?@WickedGames since you're using the angle that it's only the final product that matters. Wanna cone in here and explain the reasoning behind this after the meek mill shyt happened.
Noah Shebib
✔@OVO40
No one can question my involvement in drakes career. We have come a long way together. So let me start by putting something into perspective
12:49 PM - 23 Jul 2015
Noah Shebib
✔@OVO40
I can't count the hours that myself and drake have spent writing producing and recording music. Let's just say... 5000 hours...
12:50 PM - 23 Jul
Noah Shebib
✔@OVO40
I've spent maybe 30 min in a studio with Q. Nice enough guy, very talented...
12:53 PM - 23 Jul 2015
Noah Shebib
✔@OVO40
If your asking if he contributed to if you're reading this... Yes, he did. You can also see that by reading the credits.
12:54 PM - 23 Jul 2015
Noah Shebib
✔@OVO40
Anyways, I don't work with many people. And there's a reason....
1:00 PM - 23 Jul 2015
Noah Shebib
✔@OVO40
No one is as talented as drake. It's not worth my time. I need someone who understands song writing on a higher level...
1:01 PM - 23 Jul 2015
Noah Shebib
✔@OVO40
Sometimes that skill is used to recognize other great songs... Like in all forms of music... Except rap.
1:08 PM - 23 Jul 2015
Noah Shebib
✔@OVO40
Rap has a stigma about writing your own lyrics and rightfully so... its a very personal art form and its rooted in speaking truthfully.
1:09 PM - 23 Jul 2015
Noah Shebib
✔@OVO40
Thankfully for me drake isn't just a rapper. He's also a musician and a producer and a creator.
1:10 PM - 23 Jul 2015
Noah Shebib
✔@OVO40
We go beyond the normal boundaries that rappers want to sleep themselves stuck in.
1:10 PM - 23 Jul 2015
Noah Shebib
✔@OVO40
We've been fighting those rules from day one. If no one noticed there weren't many singing rappers in '08
1:11 PM - 23 Jul 2015
Noah Shebib
✔@OVO40
Theres countless number ones and songs drake has written for others never mind himself, thats the funny part lol!
1:16 PM - 23 Jul 2015
Noah Shebib
✔@OVO40
To be even feeling my own need to say these things is crazy
1:17 PM - 23 Jul 2015
Noah Shebib
✔@OVO40
and even more ironic is that drake is maybe the most personal rapper ever
1:19 PM - 23 Jul 2015
Noah Shebib
✔@OVO40
never has someone spoken about themselves or there own perspective so vividly... ever.
1:19 PM - 23 Jul 2015
Noah Shebib
✔@OVO40
its why people have called him soft... because he shows humility and is truthful and honest.
1:20 PM - 23 Jul 2015
Noah Shebib
✔@OVO40
you're smokin that shyt you say you selling if you think someone wrote that shyt.
1:21 PM - 23 Jul 2015
Noah Shebib
✔@OVO40
so if someone wants to be upset that drake made a great album, go for it, get mad all day lol! but don't ever question my brothers pen.
1:21 PM - 23 Jul 2015
WickedGames
Superstar
I don't get what I'm meant to be defending here? What's wrong ? Help me out
Drizzy is a very smart man
dora_da_destroyer
Master Baker
How many 100 page threads y'all gonna make abt drake being rich, corny, using ghost writers, etc for everything to be the same? What a time to be alive for wack nikkas like drake.
Slaimon Khan Shah
SLAIMON KHAN SHAH = SHAOLIN MONK/S OF ISLAAM
Drake needs some help.
Slaimon Khan Shah
SLAIMON KHAN SHAH = SHAOLIN MONK/S OF ISLAAM
I just want to be serious y'all ............ Insha Allah if Allah Wills ........... I think Drake really needs some help. I personally would like to help him Insha Allah if Allah Wills.
Nobodyknows
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fukkyalifestyle
Superstar
Indiglow Meta (R$G)
Ultra.
Drake has never freestyled live
skip to 3:25
Those aren't freestyles in the (west coast/underground) sense, those are NYC mixtape inspired writtens rehearsed days and weeks before they were spit, and more than likely written by Hush.
ISO
Pass me the rock nikka
They not off the dome I know that most freestyles aren't...
You think Drake has never written a rap in his life? Those DeGrassi raps were ghostwritten too? I don't even think Hush was in Drake's inner circle in the time period of those videos.
Dude literally has spit over 1,000 verses, 5 mixtapes, 3 albums, dozens of features at the mainstream level and underground when he was coming up, remixes, dozens of unreleased/throwaway songs, diss tracks, freestyles, songs he has writing credits for (Ye, Diddy, Wayne, Diggy, Keys, Foxx, etc.), all those personal songs. All ghostwritten? If dude can't write raps how was he at Dr. Dre's ghostwriting camp for Detox?
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