Drake Talks New Singles, Beef With Chris Brown
“I’m good. I don’t give a fuck. Like, I’m good. My life is great,” Drake said Friday on East Village Radio. “I’m excited about music, I’m in the best place I’ve ever been physically or mentally, I don’t want shit. I don’t care.” Drake’s conversation with Rap Radar founder Elliott Wilson began with his third album Nothing Was the Same, but like recent interviews with Chris Brown about his new album X, it quickly trailed off his relationships with other industry folks, good or bad.
First, the good: Drake will release two songs next week. DJ Khaled will premiere one that started as a “Started from the Bottom” remix but “took a life of its own.” The other will feature the singing that Take Care fans appreciated and his new singles (including “5 a.m. in Toronto”) lacked. Noah ’40’ Shebib has produced the majority of Nothing Was the Same, and he and Drake are recording songs in the order that they’ll appear on the album. “The first six songs just tell this story that I’ve been dying to tell, and now I’m just trying to continue that story.”
Drake sounded excited to talk Nothing Was the Same, and with that in mind, he cast out a warning to journalists other than Wilson — don’t ask him about Breezy, and don’t ask Breezy about Drizzy. “Stop preying on his insecurities, because his insecurities are the fact that I make better music than him, that I’m more poppin’ than him, and that at one point in life, the woman that he loves fell into my lap,” he said, adding, “All those things combined create an individual that comes up to your radio station and is just gonna do dumb shit. It shouldn’t be about tearing that man down. It shouldn’t be about wanting to see me and him tear each other down.”
“What bothers me more is, what do people even want to see from two young guys? [Brown]’s just trying to work, I’m trying to work. You don’t want to see two young black men tear each other down. This shit is about — it’s just, I understand when it’s entertaining you, [when] you might get some music out of it, but at the end of the day, nothing good can come of that situation. Just leave that shit alone.”
Could some of Drake’s statements read as a diss? Out of context, yes. However, when he spoke with Wilson, Drake continued to emphasize how he’d prefer that the media move on, so that Nothing Was the Same and, yes, X could be launched into the world in peace. Listen to snippets of Wilson’s interview below (S/O to Miss Info), plus his take on Brown’s “Fine China” for Life + Times web series “The Truth.”
Drake talks new Nothing Was the Same singles
Drake talks Chris Brown
Elliott Wilson on Chris Brown’s “Fine China”
[via Rap-Up]
