The last couple of months have been a whirlwind for Drake. He found himself in the middle of a beef that he did not start with Meek Mill over ghostwriting allegations. By most accounts the Toronto rapper emerged victorious. Then he dropped a successful mixtape with Future.
FADER selected him for the cover of their 100th issue. In it Drake discusses the Meek conflict publicly for the first time.
“I’m just gonna bring it up ‘cause it’s important to me,” he says. “I was at a charity kickball game—which we won, by the way—and my brother called me. He was just like, ‘I don’t know if you’re aware, but, yo, they’re trying to end us out here. They’re just spreading, like, propaganda. Where are you? You need to come here.’ So we all circled up at the studio, and sat there as Flex went on the air, and these guys flip-flopped [about how] they were gonna do this, that, and the third. Given the circumstances, it felt right to just remind people what it is that I do. In case your opinions were wavering at any point.”
Drizzy released "Charged Up" as a response. Then sat back and waited for Meek to fire back. There was no immediate reply so he dropped "Back to Back."
“This is a discussion about music, and no one’s putting forth any music?” he says. “You guys are gonna leave this for me to do? This is how you want to play it? You guys didn’t think this through at all—nobody? You guys have high-ranking members watching over you. Nobody told you that this was a bad idea, to engage in this and not have something? You’re gonna engage in a conversation about writing music, and delivering music, with me? And not have anything to put forth on the table? It was weighing heavy on me,” he says. “I didn’t get it. I didn’t get how there was no strategy on the opposite end. I just didn’t understand. I didn’t understand it because that’s just not how we operate. I was like, ‘I’m gonna probably just finish this.’ And I know how I have to finish it. This has to literally become the song that people want to hear every single night, and it’s gonna be tough to exist during this summer when everybody wants to hear [this] song that isn’t necessarily in your favor.”
Drake then addressed the issue of ghostwriting.
“It’s just, music at times can be a collaborative process, you know? Who came up with this, who came up with that—for me, it’s like, I know that it takes me to execute every single thing that I’ve done up until this point. And I’m not ashamed.”
To read the full interview head over to FADER.
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