Given that Kanye West produced two tracks off of Drake’s Thank Me Later, and directed the video for the Canadian rapper’s hit single “Best I Ever Had,” fans were perplexed when Drizzy didn’t make the final cut of Ye’s “All of the Lights.”
Count Drake among those confused, as the young emcee was left off of a list that included guests such as Elton John, La Roux’s Elly Jackson, Charlie Wilson and Ryan Leslie.
“Kanye’s creative process is ever-changing,” said Drake in an interview on Shade 45’s morning show on Thursday (December 9) with Elliott . “We make music differently. I make what comes to me and I hate changing it, whereas ‘Ye will change something 30 or 40 times to get it perfect. To each their own, and the change was to put all those people on it, and I wasn’t one of them. That’s completely okay.”
“I can never sit here and tell you that’s not one of my idols, that’s not one of my favorite rappers,” added Drake, who says he doesn’t know why he was taken off. “Whatever energy I’ve ever felt is irrelevant. When you ask me, ‘What do I think of Kanye West,’ I’mma always have something positive to say.”
“I feel like we can co-exist,” responded Drake, when asked about whether the energy level is not always where he wants to be. “I feel like Hip Hop is broad enough that we can both exist and give great music without feeling like it’s one or the other. I might be the only one that feels that way, though.”
Very classy comment. I liked the album version more (without Drake) but it’s just how Kanye makes records. I remember he took Game off “Crack Music” on Late Registration. Drake’s big enough to not take it personal.
GAME IS ON CRACK MUSIC………U DUMB PIECE OF MUNKEY SHIT
first
fail. dumbass
HHAH epic fail
Holy shit douche!! Yo mama was cravin a failure and she got your stupid ass!!
you’re all gay internet virgins.
why is he saying…i think hip hops broad enough that we can both co-exist?
Drake obviously thinks very highly of himself…
you aint all that great douche,u aint shit, u just coo, thats it
He’s saying what he’s saying, that hip hop isn’t so narrow that only one of them can exist. He doesn’t have to think highly of himself to say or think that.
he got taken off because he sucks, wouldve ruined the song, thank god Kanye did what he did
couldn’t have been said any better
Kanye and Drake have to totally different styles you cant compare the to stop trying to start beef lol
agreed
“I feel like Hip Hop is broad enough that we can both exist and give great music without feeling like it’s one or the other. I might be the only one that feels that way, though.”
Booo Hoooo. Everyone ain’t feeling Drizzy like the man in the mirror does faggot.
how is this crying?
I got respect for the old K but his shit aint futuristic or groundbreaking it’s pop Madonna shit and drake is a Weezy clone punch line rapper who sounds like a whinny robot Canadian Nickelodeon chump who all you little new age shits cling to like the new pac
Everything about this comment is true
Pac is dead lets let him be dead quit name droppin him like you knew him. Im sure his ghost is even getting annoyed by all that shit.
gucci mane & roscoe dash got more flows than this clown. he’s a joke
with comments like that you should really consider a name change homie
@big roc i couldn’t agree more
BURR
I think Kanye recoginized that this kyke was irresonsible, and was unable to suggest that he was there because of talent. I think Kanye knows this kykes family force fed the indusrty.
No need for that. Besides he’s black; he has more than a drop of blood!
Hey Adolf, kill yourself
“there ain’t no such thing as 1/2 a kyke.”
I for one was relieved that Drake’s verse was not included on the final version of the track. I actually like Drake but he just didn’t sound right on this particular record.
He should have kept Fergie on it. Actually I still think her vocals are blended in with Rihanna’s
fergie is still on it..did you even buy the album?
Sounds like Kanye snatched the mic from him…
this nigga went out like a sissy….
…this comment had me cryin’ laughin’. I dunno why — but dude did go out like a sissy…! hahahahhahaaa…
this comment had me laugh out loud at work? lol
he hates life
Drake crying like a little babe. It’s because you suck monkey balls!
I’m not a big Kanye fan, but I respect his talent. I’m glad he put Drake in his place. Drake is a average ass rapper. I can come up with 50 MC’s in 5 minutes that are better than Drake will ever be.
GLAD KANYE TOOK HIS ASS OFF, DRAKE’S HEAD COULDN’T FIT THROUGH THE DOOR, NIGGA THINKS HE’S GOD(DRAKE) OR SOMETHING, THESE PLATINUM FIRST ALBUM SELLERS ARE DYING DOWN!! LOOK AT SOULJA BOY(13,000)????? ALBUM #3?? BY 2012 THIS NIGGA’S DONE, MINAJ AND DRAKE? DONE BY 2015
hes so wack why would you put him on it?commercial weirdo rappers are horrible
I’m not hating but Drake doesn’t have real fans, he might right now but when he stops being the “it” and the dumb chicks move on to the next “thing” he will really have no fanbase just like Souja Boy or whomever else. He’s def making a shit ton of cash right now though
DUDE ALWAYS LOOKS AS IF HE JUST WENT 12 ROUNDS AND GOT BEAT DOWN!!! STEP YOUR BARS UP! UGH, YEAH!
I think I’m wrong but wasn’t Fergie on the final cut? I love ‘ye but Fergie over Drake? Really? Like…seriously? Even the Drake haters have to admit that’s whack as fuck.
Or was it Rihanna? Idk but neither one of them deserve to be on this song over Drake.
Both. And did you hear Drake’s verse? The final cut was fine. Even if Fergie’s verse was dumb, it was at least catchy.
The reason why his verse got cut was because he leaked a Kanye single on one of his shitty mixtapes a while back. Ye hates when people leak his shit and that’s the worst way to do it. Drake obviously knows why too
Dumbass. 30 minutes of the song was leaked with drakes corny ass on it.
Not just any single, but All of the Lights
…that has to hurt, Drizzle. ‘Ye is completely runnin’ the game right now. Has to… but, I digress…
I wish cats would just say how they really felt tho. Cuz then we’d have some dope ass battles (mic only, we’ve learned from our past), and cats in the game would get axed off of skill alone. The industry needs to get that ’95 mentality. Eat or get ate type shit…
never gonna happen the games filled with shook fuckin fools now who all believe dumb shit that cowards like Jay Z and Diddy talk, there always talkin that “I’m all bout my money” bullshit like it’d a valid excuse for bein too pussy to battle
it never hurt Pacs sales n he’s sold more than all of them n LL Cool J gets mad respect from me coz he’s always been willin to battle whoever no matter how big he was dude had 9 platinum albums n still replied to n battled Canibus who was basically a no name at the time plus super fuckin lyrical mos muthafuckas woulda been terrified to knuckle up in that situation on wax
there’s only no money in battlin on wax for the loser n shit even losers can still get bread with the right marketin Jay got beat by Nas n still got paid Nelly got ate by KRS n got paid lyrically Ja Rule ate Eminem n it ain’t hurt ems sales so that whole beef fucks up monies as pussy attitude
never gonna happen the games filled with shook fuckin fools now who all believe dumb shit that cowards like Jay Z and Diddy talk, there always talkin that “I’m all bout my money” bullshit like it’d a valid excuse for bein too pussy to battle
it never hurt Pacs sales n he’s sold more than all of them n LL Cool J gets mad respect from me coz he’s always been willin to battle whoever no matter how big he was dude had 9 platinum albums n still replied to n battled Canibus who was basically a no name at the time plus super fuckin lyrical mos muthafuckas woulda been terrified to knuckle up in that situation on wax
there’s only no money in battlin on wax for the loser n shit even losers can still get bread with the right marketin Jay got beat by Nas n still got paid Nelly got ate by KRS n got paid lyrically Ja Rule ate Eminem n it ain’t hurt ems sales so that whole beef fucks up monies as pussy attitude…
Ja Rule ate Eminem? Did u listen to any of the diss tracks? Prob not. And too bad Jay battled LL and beat him,LL mentions it at least once a year.
Anon you don’t know WTF your talkin about coz LL bodied Jay Z when they battled it was live in a club in the mid 90s n L tore Jay the fuck up that’s why Jay was shook when LL dissed him several times 2 years ago n Jay stayed fuckin silent affraid to respond to him
and Ja tore Em up not one barr Em spit at Ja can fuck with
“you say your moms a crack head n kims a known slut so what you think hayleys gonna be when she grows up”
all Em kept sayin was Ja thinks he’s 2pac nothin hard hittin at all
know WTF your talkin about before replyin to me
@ Doc..
nah my dude it is YOU who dont know what ur talking about…it was Jay who tore up LL back in the day… LL was hot off his old school shit and jay was an unknown…jay upstaged LL Cool J more than once in cyphers and LL couldn’t handle it with his big head… LL hated jay-z ever since back then…and when jay was president of def jam and LL Cool J’s album flopped that was it, LL couldnt take it anymore and he publicly dissed jay-z, which did nothing…at all….cuz no one cares about LL anymore, dude is a legend, but not a current heavy hitter, not for a while now….
and for you to think Ja Rule tore up Eminem? you must just not like em…cuz Ja Rule been garbage since his 2nd album…no passes…you look like a real lame on here right now Doc…listen to “Bump heads” for starters…and there’s like two mixtapes worth of disses to Ja besides that…wow…
I didnt know there were still Ja fans, i figured yall would have ran out of rocks to hide under by now…but every once in a while one surfaces…like finding some rare creature in the wild once thought to be extinct…amazing….
@ Doc
my mistake….when LL’s album recieved no promo or backing from def jam while jay was president, he dissed jay ON THE ALBUM when it released, not after (my b)….and no one cared….end of story…
wrong again where the fuck are you gettin your info coz im gettin mine from 1st hand bein around when the shit happened, which was in NY outside a club during LL Cool Js Mama Said Knock You Out days, Jaz O and Jay Z both tried to battle LL and BOTH got tore up by him that shits FACT
also LL dissed Jay Z before exit 13 on his mixtape and on his album because Jay was fuckin up Def Jam as president and blocking everyones budgets coz he didnt want anyone gettin shine but himself and kanye, something Mos Def, Redman, DMX, Wu Tang and countless others have all said too so dont try rewritin history coz I know the shit
and im not a fan of Ja Rule or Eminem their both wack but its a fact that Eminem didnt spit a single barr fuckin with the one I quoted from Ja Rule all he did was repeat the same weak ass shots over n over, you think Em won that shit lyrically post a single barr that hits harder than the one I posted
and lol @ you namin an Em diss where his hardest shit is doin exactly what I already said is all he ever said “you think your Pac” oh n callin him out for usin X whilst he was using X him fuckin self yea thats a hard hittin diss lmao…
and lol @ you namin an Em diss where his hardest shit is doin exactly what I already said is all he ever said “you think your Pac” oh n callin him out for usin X whilst he was using X him fuckin self yea thats a hard hittin diss lmao
This Doc guy is dumb, eminem responded to that line 50 different times, this dude is obviously a closet ja rule fan. canibus unlike LL never had a career,nas and jay-z both had and still have careers,ja rule had a career until he started with eminem. Both KRS and Nelly had careers and they both fell off. And the fact you had to resort to using profanity shows that u lost your argument from the start
drake is so fake. i dont understand drake stans, totaly taking hip hop out of its element.
the thing is you cant even say that drake didnt kill it im not a drake and i will even admit that the version with just him and kanye is better than the wack as album version
u hate changing songs??? wat about when u took bun b off miss me?? or how bout when u changed ur flow and jacked BIg sean’s???
LOL. Drake’s a jackass.
True,and Bun B on miss me along with wayne wouldve been dope
“Cyanide” – Kanye West
Idk why he removed Drake,since Drake had an actual verse,what Fergie had like 2 bars plus a mention of her old meth addiction and Cudi repeated the same line like 6 times. If anything Drake could only help that song
co-sign that statement G
nobody wanna ear his corny ass on the album. stfu
Smart move Kayne. The album was perfect how it was.
good choice kanye , the album is better off without drake, and is drake taking shots at kanye here or what ?
Kanye is secretly jealous of Drake.. Don’t you guys see it?
Drake, Kanye West and Kid Cudi sucks balls. I hope they hit a rock and die. A real superstar collaboration would Gucci Mane, OJ Da Juiceman, Waka Flocka Flame, Justin Bieber, Soulja Boy, Shawty Lo, Hurricane Chris, Fabo of D4L, Taylor Swift and the Jonas Brothers.
It’s Gucci Time!
Is that suppose be some kind of sick joke?
For Real
you’re a stupid motherfucka!!!!!!!!!
WATCH DRAKE, KID CUDI, WIZ KHALIFA, AND BOB MASTURBATE TO TRANNIE PORN.
haha!!
the track is still dope without him.
“Drake, I’m really happy for your alb. Imma let you finish, but… We aint really fucking wit you like that dawg…”
-Kanye West
Kanye needs to take himself off the devils dick talkin bout sayonces & red smoke and shit but then wanna act like he dont wat illuminati is kanye is a fraudulent asshole and drake didnt do anything but help that song i cant believe people actually went out and bought that evil shit cuz all 700’000 is prolly cursed now.
the illuminatii and Satan have nothing to do with each other only stupid fucks who get their education on the Internet think the two are related..
if this guys not kiddin he should kill himself
Suck that shit up nucca. You’re already all over the radio You can’t be on EVERYTHING dude. His verse didn’t even sound like it fit on there. It’s easy to see why it was made the way it was.
real talk
“In the mall..there was a se’ance..just kids no parents”..anybody talkin bout the devil and the illuminati without having read any lit or even knowing any Masons are the DUMB ONES..NOT TO MENTION SHEEP AND you are led by YOUTUBE..should be ashamed of yo own dumass…withthatsaid..DRAKE IS ON ENOUGH SHIT THIS YR..he didnt have to be on ALL OF THE LIGHTS..
get it threw your head Drake Kanye dosn’t like you at all!!
the labels where pushing for your verse to be on the album and Kanye fought to get you off it.
you woyuld have runied the album if your garbage name showed up anyway.
Drake is a pop singer stay in your lane.
STFU bitch, weren’t you the one saying Distant Relatives was the best and you dissin’ one of my niggas proteges? I’ll put Drake on my next album to piss you off.
you ever tryed to be funny as Nas kill yourself loner
It’s cuz you do fucking Blackberry ads live during your shows. fuckoutta here Drake. I loved your first shit when you were authentic. You’re one dimensional.. gone by next year and it’s December.
the future of hip-hop is here, Western Empire is on the rise
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im getting sick of this guy
he talks like a veteran in the game
he is lucky somebody likes him
2 me it seems like drake is being a fucking bitch about this whole situation. fuck u nigga.. kanye did a fucking classic nd u jelouse u werent on that album u little bitch.
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kanye noz diz guy’z a piece of shit n-e-wayz. kanye killed him on dat track and only took flake’z verse off so flake wouldn’t die of embarasment when 500000 people hear hiz shitty verse. even on find ur love, kanye’z beat outshined flake on hiz own shit. dat beat wuz so intense it made flake cry thruout da whole song. kanye’z da master.
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Not a drake hater but the final version of ‘All Of The Lights’ was so perfect, the version where Drake features was great but Ye made a perfect album.
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i love the album version but i thought drake went in on his verse in the earlier released version..i think he shouldve been on it, and i was also perplexed when he wasnt.
He was given credit in the liner notes.