Drake’s longtime producer Noah “40” Shebib is typically behind the scenes, rarely stepping out into the public spotlight. But the Toronto native, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2005 at the ripe age of 22, recently opened up during an interview with Rolling Stone.
At one point in the conversation, he reluctantly ranked all of Drake’s albums — So Far Gone, Take Care, If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late, Scorpion, Nothing Was The Same, Views, Thank Me Later — and later explained the random ordering in a tweet to Apple Music’s Head of Urban Music and The Rap Pack co-host Carl Chery.
“I was driving when he asked that question,” 40 said. “I would never have NWTS that low. Some days that’s my favourite project we did but it’s whatever lol. I have different reasons for why I’m attached to different projects than everyone else and that’s understandable but that list ain’t right. I don’t stand by that. And also I ain’t giving a list cause as I said I have a different perspective.”
In the same Rolling Stone interview, 40 spoke on the recording of So Far Gone, Drake’s debut commercial mixtape. For half of 2006, they rode in a 12-bed tour bus across the United States, recording the mixtape during their downtime. Although he’d often get mistaken for Drake’s assistant, there was some truth to that.
“Nobody knew who I was or what I did or why I was there,” 40 says. “A lot of people really thought I was Drake’s assistant. “I was Drake’s assistant too. I’m a pretty selfless individual, so for me it was all about the greater goal. The greater goal was to turn Drake into a superstar and make music.
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“If that meant being his assistant that day and helping him and getting him food and cleaning up, I did everything, but gladly. Not because he asked me to, because that’s what I wanted to do. I was proud to do it.”
So Far Gone, which landed at the top of 40’s list, was released in 2009 and put Drake on the road to international superstardom.
Fun Fact: Drake never responded because Pusha T was going to bring up Drake being bisexual and a pedophile. Drake likes sexting them little 14 year old girls
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Nothing was the same was the best by far
Yep. Easily.
Never heard any of these albums
I really think drakes never had a classic album, no body is gonna put any of his albums as a classic. But his singles are dope, he’s given away his best music. A lot of it is on features.
Top 5 diss track material- story of addonis
Nobodies cares right about now. I’m sure Noah is comfy in Canada.
NTWS is the only one I can fuck with the whole album through. The rest of that shit should be mashed into one album together with what’s worth listening to.
Drake is one of the worst rappers at naming albums. There’s absolutely no creativity to his album titles. To buttress this, Eve already made an album called Scorpion first.
Who gives a fuck