This past August, Little Brother alum Phonte aired out his grievances with The Source over Drake snubbing him a promised guest verse on a record that was likely slated for Tay and producer/fellow Little Brother architect 9th Wonder’s Charity Starts At Home. Now, in a recent interview with the Village Voice, Drizzy opens up about what happened to the long-awaited reunion between him and his favorite rapper.
Drake took 100% of the blame for dropping the ball on their collaboration. He explained that he was trying to find the right sound for his own recently leaked sophomore LP Take Care, and that the record ultimately fell through the cracks. Drake did say that while the collaboration didn’t happen this time around, he’s already been in talks with 9th Wonder about making it happen in the future.
“With me and [Phonte], I kinda dropped the ball on a feature he needed me to do, just being 100% honest,” he explained. “I really wanted to do a record with him, and we actually did do a record for my album, and then something happened with the producer and the beat, and it started getting funny so I had to scrap the record. And then he was like, ‘Well, can you do this feature for me,’ and at the time I was trying to find my sound and trying to figure out what this album was going to be about, and I kind of let it slip through the cracks. That was my fault, and I do apologize to Phonte for that. But I still want to make it happen; I talked to 9th Wonder about trying to make it happen, we’ll get it eventually. He knows he’s one of the biggest influences on my career.”
Check out the rest of the interview to hear about Drake’s love of Internet rap battles and how he and Nelly bet $500,000 on a recent Smack/URL TV battle.
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IT WAS 50K, NOT 500K!!!!!!!!
WORST HIP HOP SITE ON THE NET
50k or 500k doesn’t really matter, Nelly’s a broke ass mofo.
you out of your damn mind if you think nelly is broke. Just cus you dont have a number one album out dont mean youre broke.
you probably think Master P is homeless too huh? ignorance really is bliss isnt it
Purp, u a dumb marfarka. stop wasting my webspace!
Search on youtube for…Drake – Take Care (Comprehensive Album Review)
WHAT UP PEOPLE. DRAKE A RELA NIGGA U SEE HE ADMIT WHEN HE WRONG. THATS WHY HE SHOW SO MUCH EMOTION ON HIS TRACKS. HE NOT TRYING TO FAKE IT. BUT IT U TEST HIM HE GOT GOONS ON DECK. SKI MASK AND ALL. WE KILLING EVERYTHING ON SITE FOR DRAKE. AND NELLY BETTER COME OFF THAT BREAD REAL RAP.
HOLLOW DA DON BEAT HITMAN HOLLA SO BAD. HITMAN I THOUGHT U WAS A BLOOD DOGGY. BUT I TALKED TO WAYNE AND BIRDAMN REAL BLOODS AND THEY SET HITMAN HOLLA IS FAKE SET CLAIMING.
BUT BACK TO DRAKE HE THE BEST RIGHT NOW BUY HIS ALBUM NOV 15 UNTIL THEN ……TAKE CARE
i respect this.
Break this shit down to its most basic form. One man took full responsibility and admitted he was wrong. You aint gotta like his music but as a man, i dont see how this is gonna get hate.(obviously it will cus hhdx is 90% hate.)
check us out on youtube just type in BLACKLAWREBELMUSIC give us feedback hip hop community. Drake iz a stand up dude fa dis salute to him!!!!
FIRST DRAKE DONT SHOW UP FOR FUTURES VIDEO AND NOW HE SNUBS PHONTE…THIS NIGGA IS AROGANT AND SELFISH….BACK WHEN HE WAS HUNGRY HE WOULD RAP ON ANYBODY SHYT NOW THAT HES HOT…NIGGAZ ACT FUNNY
he dont owe niggas shit n its hard to please erbody he the only one i kno on his status taking niggas on tour with him who aint even hot!
it aint about owing nobody shyt…its a respect thang. bet he wouldnt pull this shyt with jay-z
futures wack anyway.
dude dont wanna be in futures whack ass video..tonny mantana slurring ass mothafucka
FUCKK YOUU,drizzy is the man,FUCK INSPIRATION that doesnt pay for all the expences that got him this far
And what happened to Drake & Nickelus F collabos? According to Drake, this is the dude that inspired him to rap. And before he got signed he did a number of collabos with him. Now he has dumped him.
he never dumped Nickelus F. Nick is a grown as man. He doesnt want to look like hes tryin to leech off of drakes success.
hip hop dx is now drake central
i seen a couple comments on here and it kinda bothers me.
most of u don’t even know who Phonte is. drake claims its his favorite rapper, and dedicates his BMI award to him yet he don’t ever make anything real come of it. even Te addressed it and said well if u like me so much lets chop it up.
Drake is Fake! He had time to do joints with Nikki, Wayne, Rick, etc. He fears what Phonte would do on a track with him not being able to shine like he does. Hell Jay-Z even let Kanye do BIG BROTHER. #NCHIPHOP Stand Up
Die slow hater!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
drake is faggot! what what in the butt
N u coming on his topic makes u what if his gay?
while yu watchin gay utube videos
Drake didn’t do the song because wayne told him “That backpack shit don’t sell no more”. And that’s rumored to come straight from Drake. If that’s true it’s pretty lame on Drakes behalf. This explanation he gives here doesn’t make any sense.
backpack shit been not selling but wayne wouldn’t say that cause he was the only guest rapper on little brother’s (phonte and rapper big pooh) album getback.
people dont research before they speak
Drake dropped the cutest album of the year. That joint is on every 14 year old girls Christmas list
DRAKES BALLS HAVE DROPPED???
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As anti-corporate music Phonte’s been, I’m kinda curious why he’s sweating to work with Drake of all artists. I mean, Drake does his thing, but c’mon son, there are other official prestigious lyricists I would want to work with if I was in his position.
Nah nelly isn’t broke, juts get your info straight.
Nah nelly isn’t broke, juts get your info straight.
Dawg, Drake has a gag order!! He was told that doing that backpack shit, won’t sell!! And he even admitted doing songs with 9th Wonder, and that he wanted to release them, but was told by the powers to be ( Birdman and Wayne ) that he kould not bring them out!! When Dranke was unknown, The Phonte’s, and DJ Premere’s are the ones who gave him a chance!!! And he didn’t say Phonte was his favorite rapper for nothing. Some of you need to do some backround checks on your favorite rappers b4 you talk!!!