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If I was going to be on that hook, I probably would’ve said different things. “I wrote it as a reference and it ended up making the album. “I wasn’t supposed to be on that hook ,” Drake says of The Blueprint 3’s trend-snubbing album cut.
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But he’s such a good guy, he was like, ‘I gave you my word.’ I don’t know what I’d do without that guy sometimes, he’s just full of gems and advice.”ĭrake adds that he’s proud of the collaborations that he’s done with Hov, from “Pound Cake” to Thank Me Later’s “Light Up.” But there’s one that he would’ve done differently.
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“I sent the song back to Jay-and that was when it almost became a Jay-Z song. “The beat brought the Jay verses to life,” Drake says.
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“I was like, this is like some Foxy Brown album cut… too Ill Na Na,” he quipped, referencing Foxy’s debut LP.īoi-1da cracked the code with what would become the final instrumental. Soon after, Noah “40” Shebib to cooked up a beat that Drake says was good, but a bit too nostalgic. He sent me the two verses acappella-he told me, I never do this.” “I had the nerve to ask Jay if I could not only get that song from him,” Drake remembers, “but if I could get the acappella because I had an idea for it. What's funny is the song nearly found itself apart of the Magna Carta … Holy Grail tracklist.ĭrake revealed that he’d heard Jay’s verses while working with Beyoncé. All that other bullshit is here today and gone tomorrow.” Drake modified the sample for the track so that it stated “Only real music's gonna last. But jazz was, is and always will be,” Smith said in the original song. All that other bullshit is here today and gone tomorrow. Drake somehow won the lawsuit, when the district court of New York ruled that Drake’s use of Smith’s sample constituted fair use as his version slightly altered Smith’s original statement and “adds something new.” “Jazz is the only real music that’s gonna last.