Drake has become infamous for his scarcity on the interview front but has used the platform in recent times to share with fans his thoughts on what’s being going on behind the scenes. The OVO captain’s latest chat with DJ Semtex on Saturday’s edition of OVO Sound Radio zeroed in on Kanye West’s onstage verbal attack last November, and their talk expanded into the Meek Mill beef and much more.
The interview, which took place last Monday (Feb. 13), opened with DJ Semtex reminding Drake of an interview the pair did years back that inspired the goodwill of the VIEWS artist to reach out and connect once more. The discussion ranged from Drake’s early rise and how Dr. Dre had him fax lyrics and join the Detox writing camp, getting paid $10,000, and eventually losing that deal because he blew off studio time to stunt with a girlfriend in Los Angeles.
“It was a huge life lesson for me and I still have that … Actually, when Dre came out at The Forum, I brought him the $10,000 [check][because] I had saved the actual hard copy of it, even though I got the money for it, they let me keep a copy of the [check],” Drake said.
Switching gears to West, Drake mentioned a miscommunication he had with the Chicago artist regarding the track “Pop Style” from the VIEWS album. The album version of the track had no features, but an earlier version of the song featured The Throne, the duo consisting of West and Jay Z.
Drake explained that Jay’s lack of a full verse and other miscommunications led to him finishing the song for the album without the guest spots.
“Yeah, I was dealing directly with Ye and that’s the version that he sent me and that was what we talked about and he was like ‘Man you know this is like ‘Pop Style’ featuring The Throne? This is huge,’ and I was excited obviously — anybody would be excited to see them link back up. And then I didn’t know what I was gonna hear. So when I heard Jay had two bars, I was like, alright it is what it is, it’s cool I like that, it’s a little intro and Kanye goes off. And then you know I’m not really sure the details between how that conversation was miscommunicated or what they were going through at that time, or what anybody felt towards me or whatever it was,” Drake said.
West ranted last year at varying intervals regarding music politics, which may have been alluding to the “Pop Style” omission. West also took shots at Drake and DJ Khaled’s dominance on radio, prompting a stern response from Drake, saying in the interview that he didn’t understand why the shot took place.
“I don’t know, I think everybody has their own little things going on, I’m not really sure what he’s referring to half the time, because in the same breath, I went from being … like working on a project with him, to him sorta publicly shitting on me and DJ Khaled for being on the radio too much,” said Drake.
Another highlight of the interview was the much-discussed Meek Mill clash and Drake didn’t bite his tongue about the Philadelphia rapper.
“You can ask me about a bunch of people in this interview and you can literally ask me what my problem is with them and I’ll tell you I don’t have one,” explained Drake.
He added, “When somebody makes a decision to say ‘Alright everybody’s supporting this guy, maybe I should be the guy to go against him,’ or they just have a series of events that gets them aggravated enough to do that, that’s what happens you know and unfortunately on display for the world, that was a terrible impulsive decision because you weren’t ready.”
Drake told Semtex that someone in the industry who is known for winning such verbal battles gave him advice to “finish this forever” but declined to say who it was. He said there’s no hate in his heart toward Meek, but he was out for revenge and felt that the rapper’s attack on his writing ability could have potentially ended the validity of his career. And while the relentless “Back To Back” truly signaled a win for Drake, he said the events took an emotional toll on him.
Check out a full transcript of the interview on DJ Semtex’s website.
Great Interview, already heard it
Seeing as this was a misleading article and pretty boring and pointless, anybody got a top 5 underrated MCs list?
This is HHDX, we’d be better off making our own.
Nick grant def underrated….
Bones, chris travis, lord infamous, eddy baker, GZA
Game and e40 are the most underrated rappers of all time
Jay only dropped 2 bars. Cause he don’t rap for suckas
“And all you other cats throwin shots at Jigga/
You only get half a bar – fuck y’all niggaz”
you know that was for 50 right? making Takeover a true Queens diss record
Queens/QB stays losing.
YOUR LIFE STAY LOSIN’!!!! NAS STILL IGNORIN’ YOUR STAN LETTERS, HUH???
LOL! QUOTE OF THE YEAR!!!
yeah he does he raps for dj khaled to name only 1 of MANY suckas, Officer Ricky too
That shows you what he thinks about Canada Dry. He rather rap for DJ Khaled.
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had to be 50 or shady who told him that. who else is known for it? jay but he wouldn’t. gotta be either 50 or shady.
That’s what i was thinkin, 50 most likely. cause Troy Ave came through the with the catchy diss formula months later (Bad Ass) & guess who his OG is
I thought maybe Nas, but I don’t think Nas and Drake are close in anyway. And then I thought maybe Jay Z, but Meek Mill is signed to Roc Nation Management. So, I think maybe Eminem or 50 cent.
On second thought, I think it was Game. Drake and Game live on the same street in LA, and he is the likely person Drake would think of calling if he had beef with someone and didn’t know what direction to go with it. Plus, we all know Game is a seasoned vet when it comes to beefing.
meek wasn’t ready for you just like you weren’t ready for joe budden so you chose to bury your head in the sand and hide from him right..if your such a accomplished writer and lyricist you would of responded to joe budden’s four tracks dissing the fuck outta you but no you chose to prove to the world what a bitch made pop puppet you are and not respond because you knew you had no chance against a REAL MC and Lyricist…CLOWN. #DRAKEISFAKEDRAKEISWACK #70% OF FAKE DRAKE’S FANS WEAR HIGH HEELS..THE OTHER 30% ARE QUEER THAT WEAR SANDALS
Drake didn’t respond because joe Budden is a nobody. If you made a dis track about drake right now would you expect him to respond? No lol. Drake actually sent him messages and told him if he made three more dis tracks he would pay him $15,000 and then invited joe and whoever joe wants to bring to drakes sold out show in Buddens home town hahaha. See the levels yet? Lol
Actually Drake has never performed in Joe’s hometown. I would know since I’m from there – Jersey City. Maybe you meant in his home state?
Joe Budden complained as a fan of Drake about not liking Views and then, interpretated subminals on 4pm at Calabasas to be about him when it could have or couldn’t have been. Drake didn’t respond cause Joe sounded mentally deranged to think Drake would respond to him. Joe Budden is not worthy. You can hate but there are levels for this and Budden damn near the bottom. His name is Joe who? to this generation. HIs podcast is obsessed with Drake. He is a deranged Stan.
“He said there’s no hate in his heart toward Meek” Okay, so now will all you Drake stans stop attacking Meek?
Did this nigga just say the Meek beef had him “emotional”???? Them 2 are fuck buddies!
Lol
After seeing how misleading the HHDX titles can be (this article is a perfect example), why would the writers expect people to believe in the impartiality of their political messaging? This is a perfect example of fake news, along with many other articles on this site.
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This generation……#MOIST#AF.
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you can tell this is one of those fake accounts white people use to pretend to be black..
The response is literally copy and pasted as well. He’s posted that exact text under multiple articles trying to race bait.
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Donald Trump is a idiot and only cares about himself and business shit . The people he is putting in office are all business owners and not politicians . If you are real , can see that .
All the black community doesn’t feel this way . Buck the haters !
Since kangay turned kartrashing he’s gone to the bottom of the barrel. He can’t make anything work his marriage cause his wife moved on to a NFL football player. His last insurance fraud claim. Guess he better keep checking the mail . his clothes and music took a downward spiral. People at the bottom always want to bring down people with talent at the top.