During an interview with Noisey, Frank Dukes, the co-producer of the instrumental to Drake’s “0 To 100”, shed some light on the origins of the beat and who was presented with it first. According to the beatsmith, he sent his portion of the song to Boi-1da who then completed the instrumental while in the studio with Puff in Miami.
Dukes then revealed that to his knowledge, Puff turned down the beat because “it wasn’t life changing enough.”
“No it was called something really generic and stupid like, ‘Vibes’ or something,” Frank Dukes said when asked about the “0 To 100” instrumental. “Originally it was a three minute idea that had all these different parts and I didn’t really write it with any intent of it being used for Drake or for anyone in particular. I just kinda wrote it and gave it to Boi-1da, who was in session at the time in Miami, this was with Diddy. This was like the whole controversy of the incident. From what I understand he made the beat on the spot, played it for Diddy and Diddy passed on it, he said it wasn’t life changing enough and that was that. Then fast forward, ‘0 to 100’ becomes this huge hit and then there’s this weird… whatever happened there? I don’t know, but as far as I understand that’s how it went down.”
Puff and Drake reportedly fought late last year at Miami’s Club LIV over the beat to “0 To 100.” Prior to their alleged brawl in December, Puff Daddy called out Drake while speaking to the audience at a Miami nightclub in June.
“I want to play this next beat,” Puff said in a fan-recorded visual before playing the “0 To 100” beat. ”I gave this shit to this nigga, this nigga stole this shit from me. But at the end of the day, it’s still hard. Play this shit.”
During his interview with Noisey, Frank Dukes also spoke on being nominated for a Grammy thanks to his work on “0 To 100.” He recalled being informed of the nomination while on vacation with his family and being shocked at how far a record that started out as a free song has gone.
“I was actually on vacation with my wife and kid in Punta Cana and my friend just texted me; ‘WTF dude you’re nominated for a Grammy this year?!’ and I thought it was just crazy because it was really just originally a free song that we did that eventually we put on iTunes and made it an official single but it just shows the power of Drake,” the producer said. “He can release a Soundcloud song that becomes Grammy nominated. It’s pretty fucking cool.”
Over the past several years, Frank Dukes has worked with the likes of Danny Brown, Mobb Deep, and G-Unit.
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Frank Dukes was a cocky little fucker when he first started making noise. Sounds like he developed some humility since then.
frank dukes is a pussy ass bitch, puffy three-pieced this homo wannabe rapper directly to the hospital like a real OG.
Just goes to show that there is always more than 1 side to a story. I wouldn’t doubt Diddy turning the beat down, and then realizing his error later on (enough to get one vexed). But you got to take an L. You don’t see Will Smith crying up a storm for passing up the role of Neo in the Matrix. You move on. And artists are notorious for sitting on beats for so long that producers assume they’re not going to utilize it, and hand em off to somebody who will. Not a Drake fan, but I will say Diddy acted out of line, for somebody who has everything, were it me, I would’ve laughed it off.
Yo Justin.. you the best hhdx reporter, seriously. I look forward to the clips with you. But seriously, wtf with the all drake everything bruh? Seriously, WTF? I anticipated this and turned down the volume and BOOM there you go again. Please, cut it..
With that said, I still enjoyed the clip. Thanks Justin.
Not sure why Puff cares. Guy doesn’t make or need to make good music for the rest of his life and pretty much every year he is the top earning “hip hop” artist on the Forbes list. Fighting over a beat when you’re worth half a billion hahahaha
Diddy is fiending for another hit. he wants to relive his/bigs glory days but keeps falling short with ross and french writing his rhymes.