Late last year, Drake announced that he and Noah “40” Shebib’s work on a posthumous Aaliyah album was never going to come to light because of a largely negative public reaction to the idea.
Still, Drizzy previewed one of the tracks on Instagram in December.
Remnants of the collaborative project resurfaced on Monday (February 3), when Drake performed with French Montana at club Griffin in New York City.
Word On Road reports that, while on the turntables, Drake previewed a track with Aaliyah reportedly titled “Talk Is Cheap,” apparently the same song he shared in December.
Last month, Noah “40” Shebib spoke about the decision to scrap the album. “The world reacting to Drake’s involvement so negatively, I just wanted nothing to do with it,” he said. “That was a very sad experience for me. I was naïve to the politics surrounding Aaliyah’s legacy and a bit ignorant to Timbaland’s relationship and everybody else involved and how they’d feel. Tim said to me ‘Don’t stop, make the album.’ I think that was Tim taking the position of, ‘I’m not going to stop you. If you’re not going to do it, that’s your decision.’ But ultimately, I wasn’t comfortable and didn’t like the stigma. We released [‘Enough Said’], but I was seven songs deep. [Aaliyah’s] mother saying, ‘I don’t want this out’ was enough for me. I walked away very quickly.”
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“while on the turntables, Drake previewed a track with Aaliyah”
LOL @ DJ Jewboy on the turntables
lol @ calling Drake ‘DJ Jewboy’ haha!
release it as your own work via mixtape.
how can you call unreleased works by a dead person your own?
It’s not a collaboration if one party isn’t even there to say “yes” or make decisions
or if she never knew you existed despite tattooing her on your body like she was your wife LOL
“Collaboration” LOL. wow. Tomorrow I’m going to collaborate with Drake by screaming “Raptors suck!!!” all over an MP3 of “Started from the Bottom”
Except the Raptors are decent……
Yeah, I guess that’s true.
“Collaborated??” Hmm. Maybe he borrowed my flux capacitor and traveled to the year 1999.
and why should I care? All I care about is when Kendrick is going to drop “Its Alive”.
I’m getting sick of the Eminem style “get away with saying things that don’t make sense because of my flow” shit. Kendrick is cool though….
Wouldn’t it be Drake featuring Aaliyah posthumously? If we gonna demand for correct correctness…Dame how you feel about this?
Fuck the haters! Drake & Manziel are back together & they are the most powerful couple in sports & entertainment. I just hop Drake doesn’t cheat on Johnny again. Fuck Future!
This is classic! Drake, Aaliyah and 40, it doesn’t get much better than that!
They should throw a verses from 2Pac and Biggie on here too! They would have been huge Drake fans.
drake is undoubtedly the king of rap. Drake is officially the king of rap. Feminem is a washed up pop singer that makes pop music. Every other rapper is irrelevent compared to drake they dont have the hits out that drake has right now. They arent making news headlines like drake is or putting out quality music like drake does. Kendrick was never on drakes level and eminem is donne. Since those 2 are out of the picture you fuck boys have to accept the cold hard truth that drake runs this rap shit.
Mom go get me my tuna sandwich right now!
I agree homie & now that him & Manziel are an item again, nothing will stop them.
i hate him so much.
hes the worst rapper ever anyway.
hes ruining aaliyahs songs.
hopefully timbo releases them, in a decent mix.
drake fucking sucks hes the worst rapper ever he needs to back off aaliyah shit her family dont want him touching and find a new hobby in canada!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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