Drake‘s ghostwriting drama has continued after what appears to be a reference track for “Mob Ties” made by Vory leaked online.
The origin of the leak is not yet known and neither Drake nor Vory have commented on its veracity.
The Grammy-nominated singer, who was previously signed to Meek Mill‘s Dream Chasers label, has always been a credited co-writer on the track but commentators such as Akademiks have previously claimed that he did play an integral role.
The media personality said of Vory’s credit on the song on his Rumble channel: “He is credited but he ain’t write nothing […] I’ma tell you how I know he ain’t write shit for Drake: [‘Mob Ties’] was almost like a Toronto n-gga spitting.”
DRAKE – “Mob Ties” reference track leak!!
Vory – Mob Ties pic.twitter.com/iYnukUAMA4
— Pusha Thanos !!! (new acc) (@PushaThanos__) May 28, 2024
Remember when DJ Akademiks said:
“He [Vory] is credited,
but he ain’t write NOTHING!!”Well, well.. just another case of Drake Stans bein in denial and out of touch with reality.
Drake – “Mob Ties” is Vory – “Mob Ties”pic.twitter.com/VZJm7sSku8
— Pusha Thanos !!! (new acc) (@PushaThanos__) May 28, 2024
Vory is not the first artist to be accused of giving Drake a helping hand in the studio.
Lil Yachty was recently claimed to have written “Jumbotron Shit Poppin” — from the 6 God’s joint album with 21 Savage, Her Loss — after an alleged reference track surfaced online.
Rick Ross, who had dissed Drake both on songs and social media, used the rumors as more ammo against his former collaborator.
“Yacht Put ya phone on silent lil bro.. [100 emoji] #BBLDRIZZY CALLING AGAIN [nose emoji, hand emoji, laughing emoji],” he wrote online, referencing his previous claims that Drizzy had undergone plastic surgery.
He added: “YACHT AKA THE PEN [five writing emojis].”
Rozay also claimed that Drake had somebody else write his verse on Travis Scott‘s smash hit “Sicko Mode.”
While filming himself in a club as the song blared through the speakers, the MMG mogul said: “Who wrote this? Guess who wrote this? You would never guess who wrote this,” before bursting into laughter.
Ghostwriting allegations have dogged Drake since the release of 2015’s If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late, which featured multiple songwriting credits for Quentin Miller.
Though Miller has always denied working as a ghostwriter for the Canadian superstar, he has said he was never paid for his work on the project due to a publishing deal he had with Tricky Stewart at the time.
“I’m working with a n-gga that literally is about to change my life, even though I was in my horrible, horrible, horrible publishing situation with Tricky so I never got a publishing check off of any Drake songs,” he told Vlad TV last year.
“I never got a single publishing check off any songs. I had to feed my family off getting paid under the table in that situation, because Tricky and them wouldn’t let me go. I didn’t get out that deal ’til 2019, 2020; I signed [it in] 2011. I had to let go of a lot of shit just to get out.”
Hip hop fans still acting like kids who believe in Santa Claus. Prince and Michael Jackson had people helping them write complex melodies and arrange songs on albums that had like ten songs on them, but these half literate rappers are writing all their shit that they push out damn near daily, especially the Top 40 shit that these white executives order, lol. It’s like explaining how the world works to a slow person. If you listen to any prolific off the radar rapper like the dudes from the Bay who constantly put shit out, they repeat their rhymes over and over again a lot without even realizing it. That’s your first clue that most of these mainstream rappers get a lot of help because white executives see the genre as just another arm of pop music, and that’s what they do with that genre. There is a whole host of dudes who just write for the industry. That’s how they make their living.
Pop music performers can get all the help they need. That is part of the art form to collaborate and deliver excellent songs. Hip Hop is different by design. The whole point of being an emcee is to be the master of ceremony. That isn’t for everyone, that’s part of the exclusivity of the art form. Only a few can do it competently. Anyone can sing a pop song written for them if they have athe voice. that’s fine, just isn’t Hip Hop. And yeah lets stop listening to half illiterate rappers, they’re doing anyone any favors.
People like you made these stupid rules up. I’ve been listening to this shit since my Pops brought The Message home, and I don’t remember anyone caring who wrote what. This shit became a thing in the mainstream when Cube ripped NWA because he wrote all of Eazy’s shit. In the 90s, hip hop became more introspective on personal lives, so maybe that’s where you get it, but we moved back away from that again in the 2000s, so again, I have no idea why some of you have thrown up this imaginary line of rappers have to write their own lyrics. Whole ass hardcore groups in the 90s like the Geto Boys or dudes in Suave House had people helping them write their lyrics for different projects on the same label. Everything Bushwick spit with Geto Boys was written by Willie D or Scarface, and he would be talking mad shit about his own life. It’s just comical that people still believe in this shit like the tooth fairy with these white folks running the game.
Master of ceremonies literally means to rock the mike. It has nothing to do with writing rhymes. It’s why dudes in the 80s would often not be the ones to write their own shit. Their job was to be nice on the mike. Let’s give the dudes credit who make their own beats too then even if their music sucks, lol. People be worried about everything except enjoying the actual music.
You know nothing of hip-hop. Stealing one’s style and not writing your rhymes would always get you clowned…
Nobody cared about Big Hank using Caz’s verse for Rappers Delight, or Eazy, or Dre, or Bushwixk, or Lil Cease not writing their own raps because those guys never claimed to be the GOAT. When you claim to be the best rapper, and take shots at everyone else, but don’t even write your own raps, you’re just an actor. That’s why it’s a thing with Drake but not the others.
Drake and Kanye will always be in the P. Diddy catagory of entertainers.
It’s more than just them, but it’s sad you don’t know this.
You are doing too much my man. Nobody likes a knowitall.
Drake often ghos
Drake often ghostwrites. The reference track he wasn’t credited in was written by him. Drake then called it back for a song.
Jesus, it’s a sorry state of affairs for hip hop ‘news’ websites when shit like this is ‘news’.
That song was terrible though lol. Shout out to that lonely unemployed kid who comments in every drake story every day all day while liking his own comments.
That’s the sad part. It was another shitty song shit out by the record labels, and we have thousands of examples of this, not just Drake songs. How many mainstream artists have been sued for taking some no-names song without giving them credit? Too numerous to name. At least Drake always gives these people credit is all I can say. But people are worried about the wrong thing talking about who wrote what. It was never a pillar of hip hop, and I have no idea who or why that became a thing other than the Ice Cube example. Even when we were talking about those sorry ass diss songs these two put out, I listed numerous examples of what’s considered GOAT diss songs that had other people writing the bars.
Drake is more bowties than mobties.
BBL Drizzy. Just came to say that. I’m out✌️
MOB LIES!