With his sophomore album Take Care landing in stores tomorrow, Drake is gracing the cover of Complex magazine, fielding questions from the publication about how some criticize him for fashion choices and nitpick his lyrics. During the chat, he addressed several of his lyrics that could have been construed as subliminal disses, explaining that jabs on Lil Wayne’s “I’m Good” 
and DJ Khaled’s “I’m On One” were more intended to inspire the competition.
“Rapping is about being young and doing your thing and being fly,” he said. “I’m sure people took it that way and that’s good, man. That’s great. Wake the fuck up. I hope it makes you go harder. I hope it makes you get mad at me and write a song with me in mind. I hope Kanye’s verse on ‘Otis’ was with that in mind. Everyone tried to tell me ‘Oh Jay is going at you.’ I don’t hear it, but I hope it was man, that song is fucking incredible. Making each other go harder, that’s what this shit is about.”
He explained that he’s willing to put anything in his music for the sake of artistry, stating that he’d rather infuse his songs with real-life emotion than creating a sentiment.
“Any musical sound is real to me,” he said. “It doesn’t matter if it’s from like Lana Del Ray all the way to Future from Atlanta or ASAP Rocky. Sonically, you can do whatever you want. That’s the beautiful thing about music: you get to make a choice. The more you can start pinpointing pieces of your actual life and start pulling it into your music, people will be like, ‘Damn, that’s something I’ve only thought about, but this guy put it into a song.’”
Read the full cover story at Complex.com.
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lol at da pic
Rapping is about being young and doing your thing and being fly, he said.
WHAT THE FUCK
WHAT DOES THIS RICH KID FROM THE BURBS KNOW ABOUT HIP HOP
If Drake was so Rich how could his fam not pay for his mom surgery until after his deal? Some of you niggas just assume people got paper trees
what surgery? Canada has free health care, drakes bullshittin.
you think cus they got a diff healthcare system you can get surgery whenever yo want for free? dumb nigga do your reseach
I’m sick of yall foxy sexy ass niggas talking dumb shit
1. 2pac
2. Biggi
3. Dr.Dre
4. Diddy
5. LL Cool J
6. 50 Cent
7. Eminem
8. Jadakiss
9. Styles P
10.Fabolous
11.Lloyd Banks
12.Maino
13.Red Cafe
14.Nelly
15.T.I.
16.Busta Rhymes
17.Ludacris
18 Game
19.Lupe Fiasoc
20.DMX
21.Fat Joe
this at the top are the illest rapper for life
fuck lil wayne drake nikki minaj fuck YMCB MMG rick ross wale pill meek mill and fuck fake people on the industry
What surgery was that? Maybe it was liposuction or whatever Kanye made his mum have. That’s what’s hot right now the newest form of balling making your family members get surgery to look “good”. That might not be covered by the Canadian health system.
you lost all my respect when you put Diddy before Eminem and Lupe. Diddy isn’t even top 20 your trippin.
Rapping is all about being creative, lyrically clever, with your own style and entertaining an audience or listener. The fuck does it have to do with being fly…Drake is deluded however he’s got the right idea about taking shots to induce competition but if it gets out of hand it can always potentially turn into beef.
Subliminal Dissing is like Slap Boxing
Stop being a pussy and throw some closed fists, or dont fight it all
Everything about this dude is flawed, this dude just has weak character all around
“I diss people without dissing them, because I hope it makes them go harder”
Fuck outta here
All these dudes are more white collar and harmless then Martha Stewart
I thing that Drake gotta admit that he is gay!
THIS JEW IS A PUSSY! HIP HOP IS DEAD!
WHERE IS BIGGIE SMALLS WHEN YOU NEED HIM? DAMN…
YOU CAN HATE ME NOW!
run up on yeezy the wrong way i might merc you!
tired of this guy!! why is his name mentioned soo much? hes not even a heavyweight lyricist like Raekwon, Meth, Red, or even Noreaga. maybe Fat Joe is right. lol i smell softies
dude startin to sound like a real loser, and i like the album(believe it or not) bu the is soft, maybe a little too soft,he let niggas “butter his bread” one too many times now niggas “dont think it’s butter!!”
hahaha butter his bread!!
Jay should drop takeover 2
for who… smh stupid comments like this
Ummmmm, for Drakes punk bitch ass & his stupid ass comments. I bet your a fucking homo so that’s why you don’t get it, butt loving queer boy.
Eh…
Search on youtube for…Drake – Take Care (Comprehensive Album Review)
YOU PEOPLE WANT SOMETHING DIFFERENT?
well stop looking here and start supporting real artists who love this …..there are others out there like me dying to be heard…my youtube channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/trollingmusick
def. recommend you listen to “real speak”
first 😉
Of course drake would wanna make niggas go hard
seriousely laughing at that comment.
Wow… And for you to assume that as a gay statement says a lot about you…. #Closethomosexual…
Drake’s willing to do whatever Wayne lets him. Not make music
This nigga is so fucking gay —> “Making each other go harder, that’s what this shit is about. that is some Queer shit to say also what in the fuck does “Rapping is about being young” mean, what a stupid fucking homosexual. Rap deosn’t have jack shit to do with being fucking young.
Wow expressing his mind makes him gay haha how domb of a comment by you and hip-hop shouldn’t just be about sex and drugs. At least he’s bringing a positive side to it. And why do you care what he thinks or does get outta here and take your ghetto ass somewhere else…..
It’s dumb not domb I will let you off with a warning for now.
After “domb” should have been a period.
fuck you drake youn a clown,faggot ass,come from canada acting like a g kissing waynes ass stealing styles,you garbage,not uniques just a big hype like a new flavor of icecream,lol
hahaha
Get EM! OWNED!!!!! I Strongly Agree With everything Written.
Its a same you guys are on here purely to hate, social media has made you guys cowards and haters.
The gay community loves drake!
http://soundcloud.com/this-j-bird-bitch
J-Bird bitch
gettin all up in that ass
i hail form toronto and i was looking forward to take care..but the nigga really fucked up it aint rap music. If Drake wanted to sing so damn much he shoulda dropped a rap album and an RnB mixtape like Trey Songz. NO ONE WANTS TO HEAR YOU SING ON A TRACK MAN
Drake I promise none of your bars inspire other rappers to rap better or “go harder”.
haha, forreal, drake isnt even a rapper, he inspires justin bieber to rap. thats his only audience, white boys,,, there arnt any real mofo;s bumpin drake.
putting future and A$AP in the sentance is a disservice to hiphop
why rap is dead,Rapping is about being young and doing your thing and being fly,
read the entire thing and youll be able to connect with what that meant
Dizzy smelling his own piss.
SNEAK DISSIN IS FOR PUSSIES….
Making a song about a nigga even if you say his name is pussy. Say it the nigga face instead.
Wait until my chosen emcee Zombie Pac comes to change the rap game like he did when he was 2pac. He will be dropping soon.
Can’t wait to hear his “The Walking Dead” mixtape.
no real g’s bump drake music, only saltine.
Im tired of seein Fado all up on dis site hatin on my nigga drake, what have you done?, oh thats what I thought….dis fool be tryin so hard to sound smart. Drake spits dat heat you sleep. Why all dis Drake hate on here?, yall just mad he got success. Haters kill yallselfs.
Stare at that picture of Drake and ponderer on that little speech you just gave me while trying to take yourself seriously lol. im not a Drake Hater I don’t have anything against him I just think hes really soft. I have so Far gone on my ipod and I liked one or two songs from his new album. Hes an ok rapper but hes far too hyped up, that’s not me hating that’s just my opinion on him. Im not on here calling him gay and all that shit….What have I done?, you don’t know who I am homie dont assume shit. I don’t try to sound smart I just state my opinion fool, you just interpret it as “smart”. I don’t try to be anything I be myself and everything I say is a reflection of me homie. Drake has never spit anything that makes me make that face like someone just farted and wanted to rewind the track over and over. Kendrick Lamar has. Jay Electronica has. Lupe has.
“hatin on my nigga drake” Do you know him?
how he get in? aubrey? my sister use to watch his show ahahahah
if 2pac was alive he would drop hit em up PART 2, and destroy weezy and drake
I read these blogs becuase of the news they give
But i got to admit…the motherfuckers commenting on this are dumb as hell..yall havent even listened to this dudes music objectively
just fuckin light one up and bump this album
you will vibe the fuck out
if you got a lady with you..youll get it in
lastly
The weeknd is the fuckin shit
BYE
Even jadakiss asks why Crooked I is as hard as it gets
I read these blogs becuase of the news they give
But i got to admit…the motherfuckers commenting on this are dumb as hell..yall havent even listened to this dudes music objectively
just fuckin light one up and bump this album
you will vibe the fuck out
if you got a lady with you..youll get it in
lastly
The weeknd is the fuckin shit
BYE
I don’t really listen to r&b. But if I feel the need to listen to some love songs, I will go and bump some old LL
Can ya’ll white fucks stop pretending to be black? Just because you pussies can hide behind your moms computer, doesn’t mean you get to act like something you’re not, you’re white, accept it, ok? Nothing wrong with it, all colors are even, so quit being insecure honkies.
ya sun of a bit mo fugga cummin on this site tryna call mo fuggas out while u dun be as anonymous yoself..
uze a bitch ass mofuga farreal!!!
lol good point
Don’t got me wrong but last time I checked it was being black that has something to do with not being even, Not to be racist but you talked about it first. We’re all even in everything if you’re white you still can do whatever you want as long as it’s not affecting someone else, same thing goes for blacks.
so stfu
drake? whose that? who the fuck listen to drake? who is actually gonna go out and buy his album? who actually think drake can really spit? think about it #cocksukas
LMAO all I can say is that picture and the fact that he calls himself drizzy says it all..
lol that made my day
Rapping is about being young and doing your thing and being fly, – And thats why hiphop is dead, and this nigga spit on its grave. Rapping was about preaching the struggle and representing a voice of the ghetto, a voice most people used to shut down and oppress, it was almost similar to how punk rock originated, the music was made to rebel against the oppressors and to report the injustices of what went on in these communities the government neglected. But now, sorry ass rappers like Drake, Ross and all them perverted this game and made it all meaningless. Tupac was the last rapper who embodied what rap music could have been, a driving force of positive change to the urban community. Pac even said it himself, “Take me out the game, your not gonna wanna see this next dude, cause he aint gone have no compassion.” And look what happened after his death, hiphop died with it. Watch his prison interview.
That isn’t true at all. All one has to do is look at the lyrics of early rap to tell that isn’t true. It was about showing and proving. From the break dancers battling to the mc’s going toe to toe. all that other stuff you talk about came later.
hip-hop used to be “put ur hands up in the air,and raise them like you just dont care” and talkin bout his ur addidas were fresh,THEN came nwa and public enemy wit the government bashing…so ur wrong right there…THEN u said hip-hop died after tupac,which is a typical dumbass nigga comment,when pac died,niggas like Big L was still out,big pun was later discovered,DMX,then came eminem,then jay-z nas beef,then came g-unit,THEN came lil jon that killed it..then came wiz khalifa,drake,b.o.b,wale,and a number of emcees that brought ill ass beats and ill ass flows back…an now we have niggas like freddie gibbs,mac miller,hopsin,and slaughterhouse to continue the hip-hop genre…
Man, you let me educate you herbs on this. Hiphop was bred on the struggle, from grand master flash to run dmc. If you truly listened to these pioneers you would see that its just not all about parties and bullshit. They just used parties as a platform to spread their culture. The political aspect is just one facet of hiphop, just like bboying and tagging is. Even back in the days with africa bambataa and the zulu nation, hip hop was formed to teach a message that instead of using the energy manifested in violence to turn it into positive energy. If you still dont understand what Im saying listen to “the positive life” by DJ Lovebug Starsky and READ what the zulu nation was about, which was admonishing the negative energy associated with gang violence and turning it into positive and creative change. And with what I meant about Tupac was that he was the last prince of the hiphop community. He the last mainstream superstar artist that actually tried to use his voice to create change in the urban culture. He was the last rapper who had the intellect and the raw potential to actually turn rap into more than just mindless entertainment and into a real movement like it was in the late 70’s. Thats what I meant there about tupac, so next time you dumb herbs try to get your point across, why not educate yourself a little bit first and not just scratch the surface with your ignorant ass comments
You know to be real a lot of you niggas who hate on Drake just like him and don’t wanna admit that your fans of his artistry…. I am on this site daily and I see the same people over and over again hating…. If yiy don’t like Drake don’t click….. And as far as the gay thing goes I am sure he gets more pussy than you will in a lifetime….That is all
If it’s the same haters in here according to you,then what does it say about the same dick riding stans such as yourself that stay on that captain save a bitch shit whenever Drake is criticized???
lol andre, quit dickridin drake, he is a punkass fool
believe it not,drake is an emcee,he uses formats to his writing like poetry,he brought the essence back by puttin real hip-hop verses back on the radio,if u dont agree that song wit bun b (that was later turned into lil wayne) was a REAL hip-hop song…i aint a stan,i dont listen to drake,but i respect his talent…
did Jigga take shots at Drake on Otis?
“Niggas talkin’ real (W)reckless: stuntmen”
Wreckless was a cd I believe
Stuntmen is what Birdman and his surrgate son go by as well as Cash Money.
Or it could be talking about every one hating them in music.
“As you can see we done bodied the damn lames, Lord please help them forget the things they can’t change, and pray that all of their pain be SHAM-PAIN/champagne”
Sham pain- Their pain is fake
Hope that helped go to Rapgenius for more detail.
U niggaz is a bunch of haters. Never heard niggaz hate on a man for no reason at all. Drake is hard as fucc. u cant deny his ability on the mic. U jus hate him cuz he doing shit u couldnt dream of. To be honest he’s realer than half 80% of these fake ass rappers any way. Never once have i heard drake get on a tracc lyin about how many niggaz he shot or how many briccs he sold. smh.
kendrick lamar saved the album
Take Care is aight. Thank Me Later was kool. So Far Gone was dope.
Drake is not a real rapper!!! Not at all! He doesn’t know the culture and he doesn’t represent it well either. He said he doesn’t know how to battle rap? He said he can’t freestyle? You honestly think he’s this great artist? I CAN COME UP WITH A LIST OF 50 HIPHOP ARTIST WHO CAN BODY HIM IN A MIN. He will never be Jay-Z let alone Kanye. He is just an average artist and when the dust settles, you ban wagon youth will realize it too. As for now, its pointless to discuss or argue his place in this culture. Just know this, he wont be respected by his peers for being wreck less with his comments. He thinks worlds are meant to inspire but lets see how he feels when he is talked about on wax and someone bodies him. It will happen. It happened to Ja Rule and it will happen to him. Guys like that don’t last long, all he can do is learn from it and move on.