Drake and ghostwriters
Cole, big sean and weezy) with a history of working with drake, allen ritter, and boi-1da, so it’s no surprise at all to see him on iting credit on “grammys”. I find out who they’re talking about…i listen to it and i’m like, ‘okay, i see where people can draw this comparison off the first two lines, whether it be the cadence or rhyme pattern or whatever. Still, he's got a solid resume with credits on go:od am, oxymoron, and casey veggies' live & grow.
Drake on ghostwriters
Though her name doesn't ring out in the streets of ‘murica, she a pretty well known name in britain and is a huge reason why the song was drake’s first #1 across the iting & production credit on “grammys". In late july, meek mill was reaching only dreamed-of heights — his sophomore album, dreams worth more than money, released at the end of june, had spent two weeks atop the billboard 200 charts; he was in a relationship with nicki minaj, undoubtedly the most powerful and desired female artist in hip-hop and one of the most powerful contemporary pop icons on the planet. It's also widely known that corporate interests have been underwriting music ventures to a never-before-seen degree — rap is not immune from the corporatocracy that has infected sports and television and film.
The existence of those tracks and the purported assistance doesn't make drake disposable — saying drake isn't a talented musician is akin to saying alex rodriquez isn't a formidable athlete. And the bars wouldn’t be as good if it wasn’t for me on any of those songs. The conversation of authorship needs to continue because it is not only about authorship, but about truth telling — it's a conversation about what hip-hop is and what rap means, and having it centered about the genre's biggest star is a way to ignite and involve all sectors of game.
Dropping more life, drake opens a rare interview with dj semtex for ovosound radio, premiered on beats 1 saturday (feb. Basically, what i asked myself was, ‘what would happen if i just did an ovosound radio but every song was a new drake song? It’s cool to get another creative mind in there, just someone who’s thinking solely about the words and not the melodies and placement.
12] “when i texted him, 'isn't it amazing, how you talk all that shit and still we lack communication,' he was like, 'are you talking to me about me right now or is that for the song? Like all transitions of power, it had been years in the making and orchestrated by powers both seen and unseen. Frequent collaborator with vinylz and boi-1da (appearing with the latter on the life of pablo) ritter continues the trend with his work on "controlla" and "pop style," though interestingly he does not have a songwriting credit on "pop style.
And i was excited obviously, anybody would be excited to see them link back up. Chin-quee has a hell of a resume with credits on eminem's recovery, bruno mars’ unorthodox jukebox and john legend’s evolver. There’s pop obligations that they have and i fluked out and got one of the biggest songs of the year.
Meek mill, at the time, due to some issue with nicki, whatever it was, decided to create a narrative, that i don’t write my own music, because that’s what was convenient for him at the time, and he caught wind of it. May have been taken off "controlla," but popcaan still makes his presence felt on views with a sample of his “love yuh bad” song along with his vocals on the iting and production credit on "u with me? Fresh off their collaborative album with offset, metro boomin and 21 savage link up with big sean on ….
Speaking to the fader in a new interview, drake defended himself by saying that “music can be a collaborative process”. If it didn't, drake's camp would have owned up to the level of assistance he's gotten — which is almost certainly more than they've admitted to — and simply turned drake into a reality tv version of a rapper, where people watch knowing that it's fake, but get a perverse joy from trying to figure out where the line between authenticity and script is crossed. I started working with this kid and i think we ended up doing about five songs together in total, a few of which were on that project and a few of which just made their way out.
Soon after drake's rise, rumors swirled of nickelus f providing more than inspiration, and during an interview back in 2010 complex asked him about it straight x: oh, so it's like sometimes you might help write a hook, or if it's part of the verse you might help start off a verse, or write some of the verse? Kenza samir, is the younger sister of drake's high school girlfriend nebby—the same nebby he raps about in "look what you've done" off of take care, which, one could assume, is how she started working with drake. I wonder if "feel no ways" is something that started in the wattba days or if drake and future have such a strong relationship drizzy regularly brings him into recording sessions now?
Ma signs to columbia records, preps nicki minaj diss with lil' ma has a new deal and a new diss track on the reports that the bronx rapper …. Kendrick lamar and rich the kid deliver a futuristic video for their collaboration "new freezer. Like ryan lewis, it's crazy to think about how popular and well-known he could be if he ever decided to produce for anyone else.
