Drake appears to have some serious firepower behind the boards of his upcoming album Scorpion.
The chart-breaking 6 God hit his Instagram Story late Monday night (May 21) to tease DJ Premier’s involvement with the project, which is set to arrive sometime in June.
The picture features a young Preemo with a scorpion emoji overlayed on top. It’s currently unclear what Premier’s contributions to the LP will be.
This would mark the first time the two made a song together, although it’s something that Drake had in mind since at least as far back as 2010.
“He said ‘Yo next album I want to do some stuff [with you]’ and that’s pretty much the end of it.” DJ Premier explained in a 2010 interview with VIBE. “He comes down and sits down next to us to watch the show and everybody in all the other suites next to us started bugging. He was just chilling there and not acting like he was too cool.”
In addition to teasing Preemo’s involvement, Drake shared photos of Stranger Things actress Millie Bobby Brown, basketball star Trae Young, and DJ Khaled all sporting Scorpion promotional jackets.
Drizzy also revealed he’s in the process of putting the final touches on what will be his fifth studio album. His 2017 full-length release More Life was billed as a playlist.
The details surrounding Scorpion remain scarce, although Drake’s long-time collaborators Noah “40” Shebib and Oliver El-Khatib will serve as the LP’s executive producers.
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Thanks for posting about music today. I always thought this combo could be crazy – 4 pm in Calabasas vibes
noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo this is disasterous!
I wouldn’t underestimate Drakes pen game. He might have pop hits but his mixtapes before being signed and some of his tracks have good content.
Why? And who for Drake or Premo? 🙂
Its a good look for me, anyone remember Premo working on Aguileral’s album? Back to basics? It was dope sonically
Datz dope! 40 n Boi1da dope but Drake should start using more dope hip hop producers. Want to see Drake on a track produced by No I.D next
TWO GOATS!!
Premier is a GOAT. Drake is a goat fucking flip top head, Gaynadian fake…
Nobody would kill a track produced by a legendary Hip Hop producer better than Drake.
Fact! In fact we need a Drake album full of them!
Now imagine that lol
You mean better than Quentin Miller? Drake doesn’t kill shit. He spits rhymes that where written for him. Jackasss. There are over 100 MCs that would (and do/did) kill Primo beats better than Q. Miller would. Learn a bit about the artform, teenie bopper ass bitch. Biggie, Big-L, Big Pun. Shit, Mac Miller’s wack ass did better than Frake would…
Some of the all-time greats used ghostwriters, its been hinted at in interviews. It’s not going to stop me from listening to their music and its not going to make me start listening to a wack rappers bc they ‘write their own bars’. Simple as that.
@ please dork. It’s hilarious when so called purists dismiss drake fans as teenboppers as if Big L or Big Pun even has a single song with as many double and triple entendrees as say Summer 16 or Diplomatic Immunity. Can these so called hiphop gatekeepers even understand the bars? I doubt they even dissect lyrics and only tout what has been fed to them as “real” hiphop. Did they even notice the bars on the so called reference tapes are actually 80% different? Quinten Miller can’t write bars like Drake – get real – everyone know this. Drake has a huge catologue (and writing credits) and 3 or four hooks of half songs, means he doesn’t write? And yeah, Mase is well know to have had a heavy hand in Big L’s bars but let’s not dismiss the talent of another legend to feed the falsehoods of fools who think they know the history of this art. Let me just remind you that your favourite lyrical MCs are on record as touting Drake’s MC skills: Ghostface, Budden, Eminem, Kendrick, Joyner Lucas, Nas, Dave East, KRS-One….etc. Go figure . The biggest joke in hiphop is silly naive fans think they can dismiss Drake but he’s actually a rapper’s rapper. There isn’t a great MC that isn’t fascinated with his ability to rhyme in the pocket and still keep it technical over top 10 hits.
Can’t wait for the album
This is terrible. I will lose all respect for Peimier. He doesn’t need the money. Drake doesn’t write his own shit and is king culture vulture. Talking about see how hard they ride, north side south side… dude is from Toronto. He totally appropriated our slang and has an American writing all his shit. He denies it then confirms it. I guess one beat wouldn’t kill anyone. Drake is trying hard as hell to get some real Hip-Hop cred (not teenie bopper pop tart cred). His fake insinuations that he is working with MF DOOM. bitch please. Come out the closet already. All these dorks on here saying this would be dope aren’t hip-hop heads at all. Milli Vanilli supporters with Jafakin’ accents…
Hahahaha. Real ting, ya heard (fake Jamaican accent). K.Dot will drop another classic and shit this queer up righteous quickishly.
Brah. Contrary to your belief, Drake already has all the cred he needs. Premier been trying to bless Drake for years and he would be lucky to bless Drake with a track as his beats aren’t really as great anymore. Plus Drake is innovator and not interested in perpuating the traditional sound. And as far as “real hiphop” , ghostwriting nonsense and the “culture vulture” argument , lest I remind you Guru was the son of judge from Boston and went to the elite Morehouse college – he didn’t exactly live in the streets of NYC as his music suggested, New York hiphop is also littered with slang borrowed from Jamaican culture (it’s not YOURZ) and as far “ghostwriting”, let’s not forget, Nas, another big preemo collaborator, is on record saying the first four bars of “1 Mic” was not his and large P edited his raps for Illmatic. so What’s the difference? Drake runnin rap. Get over it
Drake runnin rap, nah fam! Nas borrows lines from his bro Jungle he admitted to that, together with Big, Raekwon and Tupac not to mention sampling lines from Large pro and tragedy he admitted they helped him structure his rhymes, heck even Dr Dre helped him make his sound more commercial (The Firm) its nothing new, but its different from having a whole song or verse written for you and that’s what we call ghostwriting! which Drake does
@ Stillmatic. That’s the thing..the so called Drake reference tapes does not have any complete verse or song which matches the final version. So where is the proof of ghostwriting? Especially when the collaborator is credited? RICO ahead 4 bars which matched – That’s it. So called Hiphop purists were in shock when Drake wasn’t destroyed by the reference tapes but what the fools didn’t realize – THE REFERENCES DIDNT MATCH THE FINAL PRODUCTS. Does anyone really listen to bars these days? Plus lets be honest, the flows and style of hiphop we are listening to today is basically Drake’s sound. He ushered in the new era
@ Stillmatic. That’s the thing..the so called Drake reference tapes does not have any complete verse or song which matches the final version. So where is the proof of ghostwriting? Especially when the collaborator is credited? RICO ahead 4 bars which matched – That’s it. So called Hiphop purists were in shock when Drake wasn’t destroyed by the reference tapes but what the fools didn’t realize – THE REFERENCES DIDNT MATCH THE FINAL PRODUCTS. Does anyone really listen to bars these days? Plus lets be honest, the flows and style of hiphop we are listening to today is basically Drake’s sound. He ushered in the new era
Too bad Premier’s beats aren’t what they used to be anymore, all his magic happened in the 90s. But whatever, Drake, work with Premier who’s well past his prime anyway.
Premier past his prime you must be out of your rabbid ass mind, your mind is conditioned to listening to this garbage put Premo or Pete Rock behind these katts on makes them better !!!!!
I give a comment giving Drake props and it gets deleted. Ain’t that some shit. I wasn’t even dick riding.
if you’re not interested in hearing Drake over Preem then you’re a liar and a fool
Drake da goat man
Dude is from Toronto? Toronto is a city of 3.5 million people. It’s a total dump. Shittiest most unfriendly people Ive ever seen. The boys on the far west and far east ends would eat you for lunch to prove how gangster they are. Look how they smoked drakes friend in the apartment building. the videos online.
Premos beats just make you wanna flow. Once you here a track,you know its a premo track. He makes any emcee pen their best shit. Legend.
Premier a top 10 producer with his own sound. Just like Dre,Rza,Timbaland,Pete Rock,Kanye,Eric Sermon,Quik,Dilla, and a few down south producers past and present. All of course debatable. Im talkin about producers who defined a genre.
Regardless of anyone’s person feeling about drake, the combination of old school producing and new school rhyming should make for a dope album.