Drake Talks Ghostwriting, Beef With Meek Mill & More

Toronto native covers Fader Magazine’s 100th Edition issue. Drake also breaks silence on alleged ghostwriting, talks his battle with Meek Mill, Quentin Miller reference tracks and more.

About ghostwriting:

“I need, sometimes, individuals to spark an idea so that I can take off running,” he says. “I don’t mind that. And those recordings—they are what they are. And you can use your own judgment on what they mean to you.” “There’s not necessarily a context to them,” he adds, when I ask him to provide some. “And I don’t know if I’m really here to even clarify it for you.”

“It’s just, music at times can be a collaborative process, you know? Who came up with this, who came up with that—for me, it’s like, I know that it takes me to execute every single thing that I’ve done up until this point. And I’m not ashamed.”

About beef with Meek Mill:

When a reply to Charged Up didn’t come, Drake could hardly believe it. “This is a discussion about music, and no one’s putting forth any music? Nobody told you that this was a bad idea, to engage in this and not have something?…I just didn’t understand. I didn’t understand because that’s just not how we operate.”

“I was like, ‘I’m gonna probably just finish this.’ And I know how I have to finish it. This has to literally become the song that people want to hear every single night, and it’s gonna be tough to exist during this summer when everybody wants to hear [this] song that isn’t necessarily in your favor.” Read the full story here.