"we’ll see who’s around a decade from now"- Drake.. Excerpts from his XXL Interview inside

[Harry B]

I can't imagine Drake being old for some reason

 

[Lovers and Friends]

Young King

 

[Izanami]

I found this portion of the interview very intriguing.....

Your collaboration and features seemed to really put you over the top this past year. How do you approach working with other artists?
It’s all very strategic. I remember 40 telling me once in the studio, “One of your greatest gifts is your ear. That’s one of the reasons why I enjoy working with you because your ear is forever on. Not only can you hear when the latency is on and you can hear the smallest shift in the voice but you will listen to seven songs and pick the best song and usually you are right.” Hearing that from a guy whose opinion, I obviously live and die by, I started taking that into consideration when I started collaborating with people. If I didn’t like the song that they thought was the “Drake song,” like, for example, on his mix tape, Rick Ross thought I should be on the Stalley record. I asked to hear more music and I heard “Stay Schemin’” and I was like, “No, I thought I should be on that record.”

[A$AP Rocky’s] “fukkin’ Problems” came from a song me and 2 Chainz had done. He said in his verse, it was really slow too, “I love bad bytches too that’s a fukkin’ problem.” I stopped his verse while we were listening to it, and I said, “Yo, that needs to be a hook. I don’t know how we’re going to explain this to him that we chopped a piece of his verse to do the hook.” We were working on the Aaliyah project at the time, and we had this vocal sample that we were playing with, which we ended up having someone re-sing and in a different melody. We ended up with “fukkin’ Problems.” While most people would be like, “Oh, we’re going to save this for six, seven months, until my album comes out.” For me it’s, well, I’m going to give this song to someone who is popping now. We’re all on tour now. It’s a big record. It needs to come out in the next two months. I made that personal decision.

It was actually Kendrick’s record first. He had asked me to get on “Poetic Justice,” and again I was like, “Oh, ‘Poetic Justice.’” It’s a great song, but it’s the typical, you know, “I’m going to be on the soft girls song on the album.” So it was like, “Let me give you some shyt.” But Kendrick’s album was such a concise, conceptual record with incredible skits. I still want to sit with him and ask him were those real phone recordings? Were those actors? How did you get it to sound so real? I still have questions about the album because I tell my stories through music. I am not a skit person, but I am very intrigued by his layout. But I understood why “fukkin’ Problems” didn’t fit. The next project I had to work on was A$AP’s album, and that’s another guy, a genuine friend of mine, as is Kendrick. He’s a good person. He took the record and it went No. 1. Sure, I sacrificed the record. Maybe they’ll think I’m crazy for it, like when I gave Khaled “I’m On One” and “No New Friends.” A lot of people think I’m crazy for that too, but it’s like what you saw at the BET Awards. I’m very present in the rap game even when I’m working on an album. That’s what my work ethic is about—I get that from Wayne I think. What I do is sort of pick five or six songs and disperse out and say, “This is going to keep me very much alive in people’s minds for the next year.”

@ the generosity and straight respect for his peers in the game.

 

[ROFL_GUY]

drake debuted in 2010? or 2009?

this faggit thinks hes going to be around till 2019-20?

hip-hop/ popular music changes every 5ys.. 2013 is one of thoses years where the inustry changes happend in 2008-2003-98-93

drake wont even make it past 2015. the homo sing/rap techno dance pop bullshyt is already fading away and so is his lane.....


you willl all see when he drops.. TC did what 2mil? his new shyt will only do half that... probably even less...

 

[Poitier]

Yo you fukk with Young Thug, dude in your avi? I did promo work for his label back when he released ICFN1 & ICFN2

Hell yeah. If Gucci play this right Thug should have next. Ain't no blueprint to that boy's music. He need to have more output though, too many lulls between mixtapes.

 

[Black smoke and cac jokes]

drake debuted in 2010? or 2009?

this faggit thinks hes going to be around till 2019-20?

hip-hop/ popular music changes every 5ys.. 2013 is one of thoses years where the inustry changes happend in 2008-2003-98-93

drake wont even make it past 2015. the homo sing/rap techno dance pop bullshyt is already fading away and so is his lane.....


you willl all see when he drops.. TC did what 2mil? his new shyt will only do half that... probably even less...

The loyalty

50 must be proud

 

[Master Teacher]

Drake is finished, at the end he's had a solid career comparable more to young jeezy than Jay-Z who was tree albums in
before he fall off, this will be Drake's last stand

 

[NSSVO]

Drizzy makes me wanna go home and get my clique back together to make tracks. September. Just wait on it.

 

[Izanami]

@ Drake trying to give Kendrick "No Problems" and Kendrick being like "that don't fit on my album but I got a soft record you can drop a verse on".... Drake reacting like "these nikkas always want me on them bytches tracks" Kendrick hitting with the straight.










Still its interesting that he was intrigued by the imagery of GKMC. I hope it influences him to rap some storytelling tracks on his album. Get creative.

 

[LionofJudah]

@ Drake trying to give Kendrick "No Problems" and Kendrick being like "that don't fit on my album but I got a soft record you can drop a verse on".... Drake reacting like "these nikkas always want me on them bytches tracks" Kendrick hitting with the straight.










Still its interesting that he was intrigued by the imagery of GKMC. I hope it influences him to rap some storytelling tracks on his album. Get creative.

Drake is type cast at this point. He can't come out doing stuff differently than before because he's going to lose his core fan base. He either stays trying to be this generation's LL Cool J, or it's a wrap. I think it's a wrap however regardless.

 

[drugxglory]

as long as he keeps making these Simp Hop anthems, Aubrey aint going no where

youre a good girl and i know ittttttttttt

 

[AnonymityX1000]

not sure what you are talking about but Drake has dropped 2 classics and Take Care is regarded as one of the greatest albums in hiphop history

 

[MoneyTron]

at the comments in here. You guys can't be saying some of this stuff in real life can you?

I mean its not like dude is the GOAT but him some credit, damn. He knows how to put together good records that get popular. Not a lot of rappers know how to do that.

 

[AnonymityX1000]

Yeah it does, Drake is 2004 Jay-z status and lets be honest nobody is checking for anyone else as they are on drake level. Thats why you're in this thread posting, its also the reason why im NOT in the kendrick lamar thread posting.

Notice YOU mentioned Kendrick he didn't. We see what's on your mind.

 

[PHamm]

not sure what you are talking about but Drake has dropped 2 classics and Take Care is regarded as one of the greatest albums in hiphop history

on what planet ?