(Audio) Alleged Ghostwriter Quentin Miller Ref. Tracks For Drake’s “Used To” / “Know Yourself” / “R.I.C.O” / “10 Bands”
It was only about a week and a half since Meek Mill decided to tell the world Drake had a ghostwriter. Since then a reference track for “10 Bands” was released. Quentin Miller took to his tumblr to say he wasn’t. Drake fired off at Meek in two records called “Charged Up” and “Back To Back Freestyle.” Now 3 more ref.tracks for “Used To” / “Know Yourself” / “R.I.C.O” have hit the streets. Listen below and let us know what you think.
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Update: Drake’s Lawyers, well lawyers for Universal Music Group and the IFPI have asked for the reference tracks for Drake be taken down as they own them, we will comply with the request. More info on said reference tracks will come(cause some of the internet wants to know), like who had them and who didn’t, are there more, should sprite be taking back cans, things like that always eventually come to light. See the actual DMCA in the gallery above.
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These don’t prove anything other than what we already knew, which is that quentin helped him write it. We need proof Drake had ENTIRE verses handed to him otherwise this whole thing is pointless and meaningless. After all, songwriting is a career for a reason.
Sorry but in hip hop that’s a no no. No help is allowed you new hip hop fans kill me
What you mean no help is allowed ? Do you even listen to hip hop ? Greats like jay z reference lines from bigge and mase! Are you dumb that’s the culture of hip hop as long as great music is made and respect is shown. so be it.
They reference lines that the listeners know are sum1 else JTS like a shoutout totally different from what Drake doing.
What you know about hip hop you probably just a fan
That’s not true my dude… Even the best had help.. Biggie had help from PAC and diddy PAC had help to its not about getting help its about if somebody writing yo shot
?you sound stupid bruh
exactly
Reference lines that were previously RELEASED and heard. Not reference lines from the song you’re currently recording. That’s not hip hop. 1 line if you’re in the studio collaborating together or whatever but a song recorded and then handed off, nah. That’s singer shit
That’s what I’m saying Cam, these new hip hop twitter.com don’t know the history, gotta have it now fans kill me too. Gotta do a hip hop music appreciation class to upgrade there mindset. Damn!
Bruh you sound stupid for real..have you not seen where Kanye straight spit pieces on Hov’s Lucifer? Hov took those lines Ye gave him…I’m from old school too…you cats pay attention to nothing..this has been going on since the days of look g rap…smh..know it alls..do your research
No help allowed? How do you think Wu Tang had 9 dudes who could flow so nice? They all helped each other, its not a “new hip hop” thing. Smh.
Tell jay z that…. Everybody heard something or saw something someone did already…
Exactly agree with you. These people don’t know real hip hop this ain’t pop
Nah this is hip hop you can t claim to be the best and you got ppl writing for you.
Tell them again BRUH. You write your own verses in hip hop. someone can toss you a hook but you better Damn sure write your verses
Meek said that he does the same thing that he’s accusing Drake of on Aint Me from DC3 & HE WAS USING LINES THAT SOUND PRETTY SIMILAR TO BIGGIE TOO so Idk how Meek shouldnt even even open his mouth
“paid for the flow I don’t write my shit”
-meek mill
So where everybody else’s reference tracks then???? Who the fuck else does this???? Fraud ass niggas and fans… U not a real hip hop fan u fugazi
Nas has admitted large profressor edited his lyrics on illmatic and he had collaborators on Untitled. ODB had verses gjostwritten by GZA. Ghostface had verses done by Method Man. Tons of this in hiphop. Read your history purists. These reference tracks are nothing to me and prove nothing. Used To is a hook – big deal. RICO is the first two bars and the hook. Know Yourself is really a singing song. Nothing in these reference tracks is lyrically clever. Its stale, Im confident Drake writes most of his stuff but uses collaborators occasionally same as Nas, Jay-z and Ghostface..big deal
Its funny how you guys are saying this not culture but in end Drake is still the. No.1 rapper as of right now. And besides these are 4 reference tracks over a span of 4 months. How long has Drake been rapping, exactly
Drake wasn’t talking the 6 God shit until he heard quintin millers talking about running through the 6.
No hater but .. All rapping is repeated raps from out past life..
but I still dont get it . when u listen to the track, i dont see where quentin ghost wrote for drake thats not even the same lyrics on drake songs. u defenitely see like these are reference tracks he just took it and made it his smh so much bs
If anything drake is a magician for borrowing a few bars from this crap and making them into hot verses. Only song he ripped more than 4 bars from is 10 bands. If anything this clears his name dumbass flex.
4 bars? The whole first verse is used on his album
It’s the same as when artists do a mix tape and take a popular song and rap over it. Changing up some words. Some of lil Wayne’s best work was dedication mixtapes where he did exactly that.
I write every line in my rhymes
And you are???
Flex get off drake nuts faggot. This ain’t 1999. U talk shit bout other people doing better than you to keep your career alive? How this dude get drakes beats before drake? Who’s to say this dude ain’t doing remakes or his own version of drake songs just twisting the words up a little so it sounds familiar? I don’t even post shit on sites like this and I just starter my Twitter account yesterday and I’m tired of seeing all your bullshit gossip trying to con people into clicking on your links so u can stay alive. Fuck outta here get a job u ol lazy bastard
I don’t hear shit
Stop trying to defend this shit. Drake is the male Iggy Azelea lol. He cannot be the crown holder with a team of writers lol. He will survive this. Also, Meek Brought it. If you say he didn’t your lying lol
This garbage straight trash. Meek and Flex taking LLLL’s. MEEK should take this back. TRY AGAIN fuckboy
SORRY BUT IT SEEMS FLEX IS TRYING TO DISCREDIT DRAKE TO JUSTIFY HIM JUMPING ON MEEK’S SIDE AND GETTING TOTALLY MADE A FOOL OF WHEN MEEK DIDN’T COME THROUGH WITH THE MASSIVE RESPONSE TO DRAKE’S CHARGED UP. PLS GET OVER IT AND LET THESE TWO BATTLE THIS OUT………JENNY JONES!!!
Y’all got realize there is ghost writing and co writing…ghost writing they hand the verse and never get any credit…co writing is contributing to the lyrics and receiving credit….Q Miller is on all the credits on IYRTITL since it came out…he’s a co write y’all trip too much
He’s not on the credits for rico tho so he ghostwrote that and that makes drake look lame for paying for someone to write him a feature
ALSO IN MUSIC IT’S COMMON PLACE FOR A SONG TO BE BUILT BY DIFFERENT PEOPLE WHEN MAKING IT. THAT COULD BE THE BEAT, A HOOK OR EVEN A WORD OR VERSE TO MAKE IT POP. I DON’T SEE THE BIG DEAL UNLESS AN ARTIST TRIES TO HIDE IT OR DOESN’T GIVE EVERYONE CREDIT AND DRAKE HASN’T DONE THAT. MEEK OPENED UP A UNNECESSARY BOTTLE WHICH DIDN’T WORK IN HIS FAVOR NOR FLEX’S……….JENNY JONES!!!
Yo you guys have to be retarded or real followers not to admit drake is a fraud he basically copied the flow and lyrics of those song and made it his own i lost a lot respect for him
It doesnt take any skill to recite some on else raps end of story drake need to go back to actin n a wheelchair
He a fraud… flat out… I can’t believe all these sheep out here condoning fuckery… he didn’t write the songs… period! So he’s a fraud
Every artist in the game uses reference bars of their favorite. rapper. But a whole reference song is fake. This isn’t a Nickelodeon show, where the scripts are handed to you.
Man fuck this! Yall gotta stop ridin Drakes testicles. If this was anyone else yall wouldn’t accept it. This is hip hop. I know everyone needs help but why tf this man spittin full verses line by line.
Man fuck this! Yall gotta stop ridin Drakes testicles. If this was anyone else yall wouldn’t accept it. This is hip hop. I know everyone needs help but why tf this man spittin full verses line by line. Niggas can’t be spittin& writing your rhymes while you call yourself the best.
I LOVE DRAKE BUT, HE USING CHEAT CODES SO CUT THE SHIT PPL!! STILL TALENTED ON HIS OWN BUT HE STILL USES CHEAT CODES…KNOCK IT THE FUCK OFF!! S/O TO QUIN MILLER!!
It’s obvious you can hear drake in this man lyrics swag and all
Hes not just referencing a few lines he’s takin full concepts he’s takin the entire flow he’s revising raps from other artist and not being creative. He thinks rap is r&b where u can sing someone elses song like it’s yours it koo n r&b cuz you still gotta b a good singer how much skill does it require to recite someone else’s lyrics
quentin miller’s versions sound so much realer than drakes anyways
A funk master Fake…. Sit down at your place and hold this L….. Ok? Thank you…
1. These are HOOKS —- every rapper, from every era, since the beginning of hip hop had people making hooks for them. Kanye has made hooks for Jay, Pharrell has made hooks for people, DRAKE HAS MADE COUNTLESS HOOKS FOR OTHER RAPPERS. y’all are really blowing this out of porportion and its annoying.
2. Its 10 bands people — not tuscan leather. For people to dismiss Drakes entire body of work because he didnt come up with rhyming “bands” with “man” is ridiculous.
3. the nigga was on the fucking writing credits.
4. the nigga QM addressed this himself.
5. we dont know how far along in the creative process these were recorded. according to 40 and QM himself, he was in the studio with Drake working on shit.
Someone asked how Q got the beats before Drake and proceeded to call someone stupid… RICO aint even Drakes song.. Meek stated he woulda never let that shit fly had he known because even Meek went off Drakes(Quentins)flow. Thats embarrassing as shit for an artist in Hip Hop. All you people talking about the process of songwriting and shit are confusing Hip Hop with Taylor Swift and pop music. You cant be both in Hip Hop. That shit is lame as fuck anyway. How you call yourself a music artist but need 6 people to write a song. There are so many real artists out there writing from their own mind and heart that have better meanings, quality, and talent than these puppets. Meek killed that rebuttal too.. no jokes about Nicki Minaj.. just real shit. On top of that… how the fuck you gon diss him for FUCKING NICKI MINAJ..Dude was drooling in her video, talkin about how they should marry, and all other thirsty shit… dude is dm’ing a porn star. Dude is dick riding athletes every he go. Dude gets dissed by Pusha T, Common, Kendrick, and Tyga.. doesnt respond because that aint his style. Yet drops 2 defensive slow and soft ass diss tracks when called about ghostwriting on twitter? Thats what triggers you to make two diss songs in less than 24 hours? If this shit true, what other options would you have if you thought you were about to be exposed? Drop whatever you can so you can make whatever before the respect people had for you leaves. This dickhead will still make songs about chicks, crying and shit, regardless, and all the Drake heads who dont like Hip Hop really will still support him.
Man I been saying the same thing for forever. He didn’t want to see any parts of Common. Common killed dude in a quick release. Also another dude writing your rhythms is not rap or hip-hop. At that point you just a mouth piece. Also for a dude who gets recognized as being so lyrical hot on the mic how does he get a pass for someone else writing for him.
Yo what the fuck is that? Meek need to chill because that’s no pattern off drake yo. Y u wanna let a nigga look down by saying crap about a next nigga huh? Right now he is one of the best in the business behind the greatest Eminem. Drake keep doing u thing and ignore stupid people.
Jamaican people love u drake……Bless up you self
Ayo! I can’t believe what I am reading on this message board. First I can tell the people that are defending Drake are clearly blinded. Hip-hop has gone pop I will admit it but that doesn’t mean its okay to have reference tracks from someone to basically help you with an outline to make over the track. Biggie, Pac, Jay, Em, 3000, NWA, Kendrick, and Cole would never use reference tracks. Thats not fucking cool at all. Fuck all the who is better or what diss track is better. Hiphop is not pop. So Drake doesn’t get a pass on that shit at all and anyone defending that either doesn’t know real hiphop or is still too young to get it.
@ DaTruth. Ur hilarious. NWA is the worst example. Its well-known Ice Cube ghostwrote for everybody. jay-z has collaborators on lots of his credits and Kanye has passed him hooks.
Funk Flex! Meek! Good looking out! One!
He did respond to tyga in 6pm in new york dumbass. And if you don’t realize it drake is much more than just a hip hop artist. That’s probably why he’s winning
Besides R.I.C.O these are mostly hooks and j cole Kendrick and others have admitted to getting help on hooks so?
RICO its just the first 3 bars. The rest is totally different
Isnt q miller given credit 4 all of these songs.People act like 4 songs is drakes whole career. Flex sit ur dumb hating ass down. Meek got roasted.
Yall people sound so uneducated meek fans talking about we “drake fans” this and that we ridding dick and all, it ain’t even like that, old ass flex and bout to be broke meel over here trynaa make it seem like drake got a ghost writer.You people who only listen to the beef and not do research would have known that that “Ghost writer” These 2 dumb ass clowns speaks of was credited on the album, Now yall Meek fans, tell me how this nigga a ghost writer if his name on the nigga shit? Yall just wanna take there words for it. And flex, meek mill diss beat was wack af, retire, my nigga.Stay dick ridding you fucking irrelevant, quentin was just helping him out.
He didn’t get credit on rico for your information because meek didn’t know until this same beef we talking about starred…that’s actually what set it off…That and people calling drake number one…meek also gave Kendrick and j cole credit for writing they own stuff…so obviously what they doing and drake doing is night and day
What im not understanding is why are any of you worried? Guess what RICO is still being played and guess what else Drake-Meek and everyone else on there is getting paid from it. Sooooo…just seems funny to me. Maybe Meek should remove the song since everything is electronic now, but he won’t n he hasn’t. Too bad ha? People are always quick to point out the bad when obviously Meek looked up to Drake asking for his help now he’s the worst guy in the world bc he knows Drake “biggest secret” n that’s why blacks will never make it. Steady pulling one another down instead of lifting him up and making it together u snitch oh but the same one from the streets saying no snitching!!! Fuk that…it was a lame ass move and the one thing that triggered him was tat Drake didn’t help him promote…naw it was more than that.
Not writing your own material in Hip-Hop , especially when you claim to be the king of it, is proposterous ! Even if he didnt take word for word, he stole the creativity of someone else.. He wasn’t original & that takes no talent, he is just an actor claiming to be an Emcee.
@ CrucialEmcee. Guess Nas deserves the treatment. he had Large profressor edit nis rhymes. Plus he has had collaborators on Untitled. Never mind ghostface, RUN DMC etc
Damn the rico ref track is what really got me smh
All of the greats get/got help from others.. Kanye helped Jay with “Encore” “Lucifer” and other tracks.. Hooks and verses.. Kanye got song writers that he credits on his album.. Diddy got writers.. Dr Dre had writers.. 50 cent wrote songs for Game and the whole G-Unit.. R Kelly even wrote songs for the King of pop Michael Jackson and alot of others.. And Drake is a rap/pop artist.. I’m only cool with it because dude is on the credits as a writer and he wasn’t trying to hide it.. Had he not been on the credits as a writer then I would look at Drake differently as a MC.. But they all do it.. Nothing wrong with buying a hot song/s as long as the writer is credited for writing it.. My opinion..
You guys know Jay-Z wrote “Still D.R.E.” For Dr. Dre right? Not a hook, the entire song. Fact.
Most rappers including drake Bragg about there skills the skill is to come up with the lyrics if you are buying them or borrowing them it’s not your skill Dr Dre could never write ice cube wrote all of NWA rhymes the reason why he is the only one still relevant as a rapper Dre is a producer and Lil Wayne got his skills up using other people flow on those early mixtapes and he also had a ghost writer Gilley the kid
Hmmm, does anyone know if this was recorded after the fact? Which would make since why it took so long for Meek to respond. I’m not sure one way or another if this is true or not, but following the bread crumbs will lead me to believe Meek’s sound scan number were probably trash, he reached out to all his fellow comrades for some assistance and Drake passed the message over like do it yourself. Which prompted a so called “hard nigga” to get emotional! Couple things I know is Drake is a dope artist probably one of the best in the game, when any artist references the best in hip hop today, Meek is never in the conversation and what better way to get a buzz and sale some records? Plus, would we be having this conversation had Drake twitted the album?
Both are dope in my opinion, but only one get credit for being one of the illest in the game and truth be told he ain’t even the dopest in his came. In the words of his fellow label mate “this is a album (rant in Meek’s case) about nothing”
Ghostwriter doesn’t determine whether the writer was credited or not. A ghostwriter is a person who writes songs for someone else (of course the artist can flip bars, add bars or throw bars away, if they want to). The ghostwriter doesn’t have a voice. The artist is the voice of that ghostwriter. The ghostwriter is never seen, hence the word GHOSTwriter!
QM is also giving Drake reference tracks to show him how the lyrics should be delivered…which makes it even worse!
All these are in denial and supporting Drake’s behavior…his worst behavior (pun intended). Drake and his fans are ruining the rap game. if you just can’t stand Meek as a person, then find that’s understandable, but don’t try to paint him bad cause he’s respecting the rap game & its culture. There’s not many of his kind left that’s signed to a deal.
They need to interview this Miller Ngga Cuh Nggas quick to believe someone with circumstantial evidence ….bih anyone can putlyrics to a beat real quick…Miller could’ve did the same thing drake is accused of .ppl will not know until dude speak out. JS but i listen to both of these nggas
I nearly had a heart attack!!!
DRAKE the DIVA
I NEARLY HAD A HEART ATTACK WHEN I HEARD THIS SHIT!!
DRAKE THE DIVA !!! thats what Beyonce, gaga and them singing artist do but to incorporate that to rap??? blasphemous !!!
And before you fascist US HIP HOP fans question my knowledge in rap biggie , EM , m.o.b , S.P the fucking ghost – D block (Cass laughter) FAB ! and by the way the real king of rap aint drake and it never has been KING KUNTA!!
53 different writers on one album? Where they do that at? oh yea singers do that cause dun dun dunnn they don’t write they own sht
Drake should have kept his mouth shut and none of this would have came out. He should have stayed true to his line or borrowed line from Successful “Diss me youll never hear a reply for it” (saw the line on another site so I didnt pull a Drake). Also these lines are identical or too close sorry I am a Drake fan but this is just sad, talk all that trash about being real and stuff but you copping lines from someone else?.Also I saw above someone said Drake is the number 1 rapper right now I’m sorry after this crap real Hip Hop fans should seriously consider him being your number 1 rapper because I honestly believe Kendrick Lamar is one of the top and real rappers in the game
No one needs 1:1 bar referencing to prove the point that Drake isn’t as creative as his fans put him out to be. Drake fans are salty and desperate upon this leak and this is why they are talking about “Oh its not EXACTLY the same”. But really, the flow, the creative process and practically everything that makes Drake who he is is clearly copied. Know Yourself had a really dope flow especially with the hook and it doesn’t even matter what the lyrical content was because the flow itself was so catchy. Furthermore, Quentin Miller has access to basically anything Drake, talking abut OB O Brien, in a sense, how is this not impersonating him? It’s like signing his entire life to Quentin as a creative license. . . .
In addition, we all know the bars are weak and pretty much irrelevant to the song becoming a hit. The most difficult part is making the bars flow with the verse — and that is exactly what Quentin Miller does for Drake. Substituting some of Quentin’s irrelevant bars with Drakes irrelevant bars is not fucking hard.
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“One More Chance” writers Wallace, Norm Glover, Reginald Ellis, Chucky Thompson, Combs
2pac
Ray Luv was one of Tupac’s closest friends during the time he lived in the Bay Area. “Trapped” was actually a song that I wrote, but I just didn’t feel the vibe. I crumpled it up and thew it away. Just part of it was stickn’ out of the garbage can and this n*gga came in, and we were sitting there hella high. Tupac pulled the paper out of the garbage, started reading it, and he said, “Ah, this is dope. What the fu*k you throw this away for?” I told him I didn’t want it. He asked if he could have it. He read it and was like, ‘Man, this sh*t is dope.’ So I gave it to him. It was purely on love. I wasn’t looking for no bread. Later he called me up and told me he had just recorded it as a single. He said ‘We want it to be the first fu*kn’ single.’ And then he told me he was gonna shoot me a couple G’s, which he did, and we was even.” -@TheRealRayLuv
Jay Z
“Izzo (H.O.V.A.)” writers Carter, West, B. Gordy, A. Mizell, F. Perren, D. Richards
“Girls, Girls, Girls” writers Carter, Justin Smith, T. Brock, R. Relf
“Jigga That Nigga” Carter, J.C. Oliver, S. Barnes
The list goes on.
Those are songs with samples idiot. The original songwriter still gets credit
I’m a old school head. And when rap and the culture of hip hop was young. U couldn’t even bite beats much less rhymes but that all change. Look snoop dog stole laddidaddi and called it a homage to slick rick. Nobody got upset cause these new heads see that has normal. So in mg opinion has long has a rapper gives credit where credit is due no problem Cause everybody is biting nowadays
This proves nothing for the fact that we are hearing these tracks way after they been released. What’s to say Miller didn’t record these until after this meek and Drake beef start. And let’s face it before ppl were listening to Ne-Yo he was a song writer for the top artist such as Beyonce, usher, etc. So if Q. Miller writes so what he gets a percentage off the top while the artist gets the rest.
Idk if anyone said this already said this but on top of song writing being a CAREER. You do know that THE FIRST RAP SONG EVER was ghost written, they even say the freaking writers name in the song. “SO TELL ME ABOUT HISTORY AGAIN?” ALL OF these rappers are fake to some degree!!! It’s a politic. Not about talent anymore, it’s about who has the best immage, best connections, and who’s willing to do the shadyest shyt to get ahead. All of today’s rap is ruining our society but you listen to it. So why follow one fake nigga and not the other?
Idk if anyone said this already but on top of song writing being a CAREER. You do know that THE FIRST RAP SONG EVER was ghost written, they even say the freaking writers name in the song. “SO TELL ME ABOUT HISTORY AGAIN?” ALL OF these rappers are fake to some degree!!! It’s a politic. Not about talent anymore, it’s about who has the best immage, best connections, and who’s willing to do the shadyest shyt to get ahead. All of today’s rap is ruining our society but you listen to it. So why follow one fake nigga and not the other? so nobody remembers when they said Jay Z had a ghost writer
I know people who wrote hooks for a lot of yalls favorites…stop speaking about an industry half of y’all obviously know nothing about!!!!
All y’all are stupid af.. drake is fake . Meek has been 100 since day 1.
#teammeek
The only people who honestly believe miller wrote for drake are people who been hating on him, y’all are idiots and obviously don’t listen to his music.. First of all this proves that he didn’t write Drake verses and 2nd.. His flow isn’t even the same as drake in his verses so how tf is he writing for him and in a couple of the reference tracks he bit drake flow and all he did was give drake a Fucking HOOK how tf is that ghost writing.. And we don’t even have proof that he’s the original writer of the hook.. Y’all listen to anybody when y’all hating on somebody.. Meek got called out twice for niggas writing his shit and he didn’t give them credit and on top of that he was drake biggest fan but trynna get people to discredit him because he didn’t RT his album.. How tf is he a “Real nigga”? Nigga went back on all his words and tweets and contradicted himself and y’all still think he real.. And his diss was ass.. 1. Drake address the situation at hand and present event and stayed on subject.. 2. All meek rapped about was disputes drake had with othere people the only thing that was on subject was when he said who was quinten runnin the 6 with?? Y’all some fake ass internet thugs just like y’all homie meek.. Would probably throw salt on yo friend name for publicity just like him.. Y’all niggas don’t understand music.. That’s why y’all are meek fans in the first place.. Make up ya mind either drake isn’t that good and he suck or he really ain’t writing his shit because he’s too good and it has to be fake he has to be getting help.. Because if these allegations would’ve been for tyga or somebody nobody would care but because it’s drake his haters wanna make it so true and we still have been giving no proof.. PS. That nigga replied to Pusha T, kendrick, common and he disses Jay z all the time.. Smh
Obviously no-one here has ever read the album credits of hip hop artists. Just look back at those biggie songs and look at how many writers collabed up to create songs. Not hot 16s, Songs. It takes more than one mind to be able to put together material for an album that’s supposed to reach across a broad audience. There were like 5 other writers on the credits for “Juicy” besides biggie including Pete Rock and Sam Oliver. Flex knows this shit, he’s just stirring the pot because that’s his job. Not as a DJ but as a radio personality. He off his Wendy Williams shit and yall niggaz eatin’ it up like yall starvin’.
I thought we were suppose to be innocent until proven guilty. Instead you guy are already giving Drake the guilty verdict without even waiting for him to speak on the matter. Those so call reference tracks were only about 1 minute long with one verse any a hook if anything. What about the rest of the song? What about the other tracks on the mixtape. Quentin was credited for 4 out of the 17 tracks. Most importantly, how do you all know those were reference tracks for Drake to recite. Drake could have asked Quentin to jump in the booth and spit what he wrote and try to twist it up to see what ideas Quentin could come up with cause at the end of the day Drake was paying him for his ideas. And Quentin himself denied the ghost writing allegations but that done mean anything to yall.
And for you guys calling Drake a fraud. A fraud is someone who steals and hides. Just paid Quentin and gave him credit on the mixtape. Therefore, he was a co writer; not a ghostwriter.
All im saying is, lets wait for Drake to speak on this. Someone will ask in an interview about the meaning of those tracks that had similar words and flow of his. I do agree with the other hiphop heads that reciting even a verse word for word is a no no in the hip hop industry. Its different in the R&B industry because in R&B, you’re chosen because of your vocal skills while in hip hop, your chosen base on your rap skill. So you shouldn’t be a rapper if someone is writing your raps.
Last, lets keep in mind that this was a mixtape not an album.
Man..some people don’t know much about hip hop to say that ghost wriiting is new. Shit Cube wrote a lot Easy E’s rhyme on Sraight Outta Compton Album…D.O.C wrote for Dre on the Chronic & Chronic 2001…LL Cool J ghost write for Run DMC…I could go on….Rza & Gza wrote most of Ol Dirty Bastard’s Return To The 36 Chambers….Just a few in a long list of legendary albums…
I have to give Drake credit because he actually did give the guy credit but Jesus Christ, I’ve heard some of the reference tracks and this guy basically wrote drakes entire verse in some instances I definitely respect Meek more than drake now
I am not a Drake fan at all. Do not have one record of his and I am in my mid 30’s. Even I can say that the Drake hate coming from you guys seems extremely suspect. This whole DJ Drama, Meek Mill crap seems extremely messy and it stinks of a young man trying to tear someone down to take their spot but camouflaging it to seem like this whole thing is to save hip hop. If Meek Mill wants to save hip hop then he needs to call out his boss. And I promise you he knows of way more people in the industry getting help, he just doesn’t want their spot. He went after Drake because Drake probably seemed like an easy target. He also went after Drake because of his talent. Even though I’m not a Drake fan, I can recognize talent. Drake has been around for some time now and I know he writes for other artists I am actually a fan of.
I’ve had family members that were in the industry and they have told me it is not uncommon for someone that becomes a huge star enlisting help to keep making hits because of extremely busy schedules and contract rules. They are contracted to make a certain number of albums and they have HUGE pressure to remain relevant. Everyone knows Drake writes. So he had help on some songs so what? Why not call everyone out just like 50 cent said in a recent interview. If you call Drake out, call them ALL out!!
Also we all know how Drake feels about Nicki Minaj and no one is going to tell me that Meek Mill does not feel threatened by Drake. He is insecure, jealous, petty, and a lousy friend. To even pressure his friend DJ Drama to release those reference tapes was scuzzy and Drama is scuzzy for doing it and Flex is scuzzy for inserting himself into all of this mess. This is not the first or last reference track any of you have heard of or come across. It’s VERY common. Reference tracks go into vaults and are not spoken of. This was all a malicious plan to bring down a talented individual over ill intentions and it’s why most people aren’t rockin’ with you guys. Meek got what he deserved and if Nicki was somehow involved then shame on her as well especially since Drake wrote Buy A Heart for her and Meek Mill. Go check the credits if you don’t believe me. You know who’s name is not on the credits? Meek Mill’s. So who wrote his rap?! Aubrey mabey?!
So sad yet so amazing how easy it is to manipulate the mind of the masses. S/O to meek for keepin 100. To the drake fans, you are the people who make it possible for a man with a dream and no talent in this world to have a chance at greatness. All it takes is reading a few books on psychology. Notice the endless possibilities and smile, there’s a whole lotta people in this world that will die for you and go great length to support your bulls hit if you understand how to…..
Peace
I know this shit is old but YO RIZ NAS SAID HOW MANY OF BIGGIES LINES GONNA COME OUT YOUR FAT LIPS FOR A REASON DIPSHIT