Drake discusses writing for Dr. Dre and Aftermath Entertainment in John Seabrook’s book, The Song Machine: Inside The Hit Factory, which was released in October.
Seabrook says during an interview that was published with DJBooth today (January 13) that Drake was approximately 19 when he and Noah “40” Shebib moved to Los Angeles to work as songwriters for Dr. Dre and his Aftermath Entertainment.
The story says Drake was paid $10,000 for his efforts and in The Song Machine: Inside The Hit Factory, Drake says that the material he crafted, which would have been during the time Dr. Dre was working on his Detox album, was unlike much of his other material.
“It was some of the most strenuous militant shit I’ve ever done,” Drake says in the book. “But no useable songs came out of it. When I think of how he worked us, it’s no wonder he didn’t get anything out of it. It was just writers in a room churning out product all day long.”
Dr. Dre’s Detox album has yet to be released, but in 2009, Lil Wayne said on Drake’s “Ransom” freestyle that “me and Drizzy both wrote on Detox.”
For additional coverage of Drake, who discusses writing for Dr. Dre and Aftermath Entertainment in John Seabrook’s book, The Song Machine: Inside The Hit Factory, watch the following DX Daily:
So dre paid him to pay Quentin to write for him…. This is just getting confusing.
bullshit, he has no credibility as a songwriter/rapper. he can’t even write his own material but were supposed to believe he wrote for dr. dre because he says he did. until dr. dre comes forward and admits he did it’s nothing but lies in a desperate attempt to repair his bullshit reputation as a pop singer who doesn’t write his own material and steals lyrics, verses and beats from others. FUCK DRAKE FUCK OVO #DRAKEISFAKEDRAKEISWACK
Damn you jus sound bitter!!!! Dre has had plenty of ppl write for him…if he did write for him then he did
Drake’s actually got a pretty long history of writing for other people. Especially in 2008/09 when he first came out.
He does write his own songs–check the liner notes. I mean he and 40 wrote Alicia Keys’ Unbreakable. He won an award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame for Christ sakes.
Drake is a slime ball ass nigga. Will literally do anything to stay relevant.
Hey boo
Lol….drake haters make me laugh. …y’all shud join kevin hart or smtin
Drizzaveli has never told a lie, so I believe this story all the way, regardless of what any hater says. #DrakeIsLoveDrakeIsLife
Did you say Drizzaveli???? Lmao
Wow
Yeah, I said Drizzaveli. Got a problem? #DrakeIsLoveDrakeIsLife
fucking cock smoker, kill yourself! FUCK DRAKE FUCK OVO #DRAKEISFAKEDRAKEISWACK
Why is there so much hate for Drake? He is so super cute, me & my life partner love him & not many artists have the courage to have all male shows but Drizzy does & I can’t wait until Feb. 8th. We are having a dance off tonight & all the fellas are going to be in their gym gear!!!! I’m so ready.
I would love to come in my gym wear and support, y’all sound like my kind of guys…heeeyyyyyyyy!
That was really funny shit… Lol
Drake steals lyrics. He will be irrelevant in a couple of years because he doesn’t have talent. Even Lil Wayne, 2 Chainz and Rick Ross are better than him….
I want to throw Drake in a fire. He’s so fucking trash and gay. He sucked so much cock and dick to be famous.
Literally every rapper that ever existed wrote for detox…and i just read the same article saying it was a deathrow records camp.
Drake sucked Lil Wayne’s dick and balls and got fucked in the ass by him.
obviously you haven’t listened to rap very long. there are plenty of rappers cornier and more talentless than Drake. See No Limit during the 90’s for starters. and btw, fuck Drake.
This guy is such a phony… Now he needs to tell everyone that he writes lyrics. Was Quentin Miller in the studio with him while he was so called writing.
….you clearly didn’t read the article because if our did then SECOND LINE clearly states this wasn’t coming from him. Also it’seems been common knowledge that he wrote on detox
Mystical, Mia X and Mac had talent. And Master P was wack but never phony
Money and fame changed this nigga for the worst. Compare Successful and Best I Ever Had to Energy and all the new shit he puts out literally talkin shit. This nigga is a totally different person.
ya he’s a real tough guy on record talking shit about people but when confronted face to face he puts his tail between his legs and denys he said anything wrong and begs for forgivness like the bitch made pop princess he is. want proof….watch youtube videos of rapper Ludacris talking about drake dissing him on record then denying he did anything wrong and kissing Ludacris ass when Ludacris confronts him. listen to Ludacris’s drake diss call ya bluff, lyrical healing, FUCK DRAKE FUCK OVO #DRAKEISFAKEDRAKEISWACK
Did you listen to 6pm in new york?
I can name 30 or more people that “wrote” for dre. if the material never came out, it never happened. take your money and shut up. this is careful Public Relations move for a person that got exposed to for receiving full reference tracks from artist.
F DRAKE AND HIS MOM
Ouch! Did Drake and his mom take turns penetrating your asshole or something my dude? You seem very butthurt about someone you can simply ignore but choose not too….
A it just the trend who can be the biggest Troll now?! Or are y’all just some 13 year old kids bored that had to sneak on and use your moms iPad to come post some bullshit
If you don’t like the comments sweet pants then after you read the article just move on cause yes its 13 year olds and trolls as well as gay people like you, I, and Dancing with Drake
I mean we all know this
Drake writes for even your favorite rapper that’s why Kendrick is his biggest fan
Story comes out that Drake wrote some songs for Dre, songs that were apparently not good enough to even see the light of day, and all of the sudden motherfuckers are trying to say he writes for everybody. SMH
Wrong and wrong.
Who is Drake? I googled him and it says hes an actor on a canadian public access show
Lol, now we know why we never got Detox!
Burn!..
Why does anyone CARE….THAT is the real question here….does it do anything if you do other than take you away from your own life and real problems? Wanna have something to say, but if your own life isn’t where you want it to be, then why not care about that with all this energy and see where it can go? But nah, this is important, so don’t mind me….
wayne and drake writing for detox mmm… that’s probably the reason dre scratched the album and made compton his last one
Lmao
Drake had some talent, but hes gives the vibe that hes a two faced slimey type of bitch nigga. I dont get involved in all the hate because its a waste of time. Look back two years ago on every one you were hating on and said something about. Did it change anything? Use your time and energy strictly to focus on shit you like and leave drake and kylie jenner to the sheeple. Hiphop im fuckin with nowdays is cats like freddie gibbs, killer mike and logic. Rappers with hunger and talent who got something to say.
its amazing how so many folks absolutely hate Drake. Just checked on here and I cant believe how much energy haters put in to the comment section. the irony is its like shooting themselves in the foot. Drake feeds off this negative energy just like Jay-Z did. He is striving for universal respect and the lack of respect from the purists is only going garuntee a longer reign for him. Either way Drake wins. Think about it, 10 years from now, his enthustiastic 15 year old fans will be 25 and will keep defending until he is a legend. Based on this comment section, one can infer Drake prob goat
You sound really cool bruh, wanna Skype?
Agreed bro 100% if you don’t like his music don’t listen to it, but don’t hate the man for being successful, and constantly making moves, he’s actually a great ambassador for hip hop, doesn’t have a million meaningless tatts and speaks articulately
Goodamn. You haven’t said one thing that’s true. Your entire comment is nothing but lies and fanboy spasms. Aubrey isn’t that good. 10 years from now, he’ll be a joke.
@Con Artist Nobody cares about success, the dude is wack. Besides, he’s not a good ambassador for hip-hop since he makes pop bullshit instead of hip-hop music and he doesn’t speak that articulately.
If Drake is so good at writing songs then why doesnt he write his own songs?
Had Drake never wrote some of Detox, Dre probably would have released it because it would have sounded less wack.