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waiting and saying, "If it's ever going to happen, you know?", then you get a lot of people just competing at the same level for the same shows and the same radio ads and stuff, and that leads to a lot of headbutting and yeah, I think which I think as we started to raise the bar. The most important thing and the most important thing was that everyone else could see that it was possible because at that time the speech was implausible, so are you telling me that this Jewish Canadian child actor will it be what will someone be? who we say is in our top five, whatever, it was a hard sell and I think it took him being probably the furthest candidate and making this happen for everyone else to realize that you know he's Even with men like all these guys like you, you look at the footage of Abel in downtown Toronto singing, you know, when he was just wandering the streets and you know, and he was up to no good, but he had raw talent and you know, Tory Lanez. that he used to be outside, like in malls, trying to fight people and, as you know, all these people had drives and all these people had talent and I think just realizing that it's possible was extremely important.

I don't give him credit. myself for nothing more than that, I don't give myself credit for just opening the next chapter in everyone's mind where okay, if this person can do this, I can do this too, that's the only thing I want to take credit for. the merit and in regards to, you know, in regards to the impact that I had on other artists in the city because I really believe that all of these people deserve to be where they are and they probably would have found their way, but I think that that moment It was a turning point for everyone like Yodas is crazy and I have to get there, I know I can get there too, so that was that big man, I was big for kindergarten, it was the first bridge to bring that to the table that then you feel, you just take care of yourself, you took control of your career in a sense and you built yourself and 40 built your sound, yeah, I think I really came home, you know? after running with Wayne in God Knows. how many tours and studio nights and yeah, I just came home and reconnected with my friends, reconnected with, you know, 40 sonically we reconnected and realized that we have a real chance to establish ourselves again separate from everyone else, so that's when we were really hell-bent on having our own sound that sounds like our city and it's going to be dark and it's going to be a movie and it's going to sound like the cold outside and of course Oliver being A Genius, it's going well, look, I did for this kid to come down the stairs in the rain and hear this kid, his name is the weekend, and as you know, that was a huge thing, it was like you realized there were just other kids locked in. in this dark, a studio cooking up dark music, you know, and again, like I remember, even in those moments, like just being inspired by different things, like I remember when Abel first played me the dirty sprite one and we were like, oh man this is happening. in Atlanta someone, someone's on and like it's just soot, it's over, like you know, like disrespect, you know, you don't know, there's no disrespect when I say this, but like you know the days when they just I was trying to be a pop hit. with Alicia Keys on the hook it was like everything was over, yeah, I didn't want that with me anymore.

I didn't want to, I just didn't want, I didn't need a big, shiny one. I just needed something I could remember. and to say now that that's me, that's me and my friends and my city and my people and yeah, I think from then on I've never deviated from anything that you don't do before reading the file, what happened is true sense, it's true because you're at the top of the charts, but everything you hear these songs are not like we were taught, they were like some of them, but some of them are not, most of them are not like you.

I think the radio single is you. Do you think you read the file where success is because this is it? um, yeah, I mean, I don't know what we were thinking at the time we decided to leave Marvin's Room as a main thing, so yeah, I definitely think we've always, um, we've always broken the mold in that sense and it just continues, It continues, I mean, even all the way to God's plan. God's plan was a song that I recorded on a whim in my condo and I didn't think about anything. I only had the first verse on the hook.

I sent it to trippy and thought, maybe this could work for your album and he obviously was. You know, I'm busy doing whatever doing this. I know people punished him for that, they shouldn't punish him for that, although you know sometimes artists artists submit a song. You know he was checking my text message the other day and the young bully sent me. That little baby song to go on and I was so mad because I like the baby out of it so much, that I had seven, yeah, well, he had sent me like 12 songs, but in that 12 song package, Lo Baby was in there , I was like damn.

That's one of my favorites, how come I didn't get a verse from there? leaked and people forced my hand because they were like, that sounds hard and we had to rush because I was worried that another artist would get distracted and start playing like random verses, you know, which in the past was a big rush for people that gets leaked with ideas like from a verse and then like random artists like you know what it would be like yeah this is me and Drake news but yeah so we rushed like I remember it like that night when the clips came out . and MP, I think it was like New Year's Eve, yeah, and um, we were hustling, hustling, hustling, hustling to try to change things in the next two days and I remember thinking, "Everyone has to do a second verse, he has to do it." be tough and I did the line, you know, the line from the song, you know, I just loved my bed and my mom, you know, and when Noel put the work in that line, I thought it was okay, but even then I mean, You know I never My point is that I could never have told you a week before that God's plan was my single and that it was going to be the biggest song of my career.

I would have never known and that my hand was forced and It's really, you know, I feel like I like, I can put in the maximum amount of effort, I can use the whole heart of my soul, you know, in my writing, but at the end of the day, I am being guided by some other power. I don't know what it is, but someone somewhere likes me, you know, and it's just the facts, you know, a lot of it is organic, not that it's not so calculated and yeah, when we talk about singles not being traditional, it just works that way.

I think we all have good ears and you know there's a core of ten, eight or ten people that I really look to for opinion and once those people tell me that once, yeah, the always elusive. one once those one time those people you know gimmi gimmi they are not approving then you know Normally I feel comfortable enough to say well, let's try and again no, no, I can't think of that many times - that's the question - a lot of artists to the point where they're successful don't even listen to any of the eight other people's voices like, at this point in your career, you're still willing to say that. feedback from your core of your team, yeah, I mean, I think I think I'm too self-aware to not like requiring approval from people that I respect.

I mean, you know I'm, I'm a very insecure person. person when it comes to my music and especially when we talk about starting a whole new chapter like the one we're working on now and that's just because until you put it out into the world you don't really know what people are like. I'll feel it and even when you surrender to the world, we're in times now where you know the first reaction is that people just want to say that like it's the funniest thing, so it's always like the album comes out at 12: 01 trash, trash, dumpsters, you know, whatever, for any artist, you know, it's like you know.

I think people are more excited about you being the mainstream than being the thing that you really know, really picking up an album and listening to it, but inevitably you need music. in your life, then three weeks go by and you get an honest assessment of what you just give up, you stand still, you state opinions from complete strangers, you get off the paths that still bother you at this point, in your right um it depends on It depends whatever narrative we're talking about, you know, but definitely, of course, there are things that you know, we're currently in a time where the comedian is almost like a newspaper and the new comedian is. they are the unfiltered righteous people on social media platforms and while they are extreme, I mean, while they are undefeated and extremely funny, yes, of course, people can start saying things that hurt you, that upset you, that They take away your day. out of character, especially when they're like that, they're selected by a group of people who are ready for Drake's downfall in this case, so it's like you know it might be something, it might be something, it might be something hurtful. things and when it's completely false and when it's you know when it hits you the wrong way, of course, I mean, I don't think I know anyone who would ever tell you that it's not like that, why don't you don't stay committed like you are. on Instagram you're active you're going to like things you're going to see your presence fill your presence on Instagram like yeah I just can't find that balance and they don't want to be on social media yeah I feel like they hit me then you know because I enjoy social media social, they're good for a lot of things, you know, I've met so many great people, so many great songs have come about because I'm active and I check my DM or I, you know, you know I've had great friendships through social media.

I met great women through social media. Full disclosure but it works yeah but you know it does so I feel like you know people like it just because you know. few bad apples want to rape, it would be a shame for me to say that I can't deal with this, it's also like, I mean a bill, it strengthens, you know, as hard as it is, it definitely strengthens your character, I mean, I've heard it all, I've seen it all, I've felt the worst of the worst and I've felt the best of the best, so it's nice to be aware of all those emotions, you know, I definitely keep them in my in my Arsenal in my in my in my mind you know and you can use them to channel into other things, I mean musically, when it comes to criticism, I'm like you said, you mentioned before how some people might say, hey, Drake is appropriating this culture of music or you know , for your personal benefit, how do you feel about that kind of criticism? um I think it's kind of similar, they're curated by a group of people who just aren't in this, weren't in this.

For starters, I even like the definition of appropriating a culture is not supporting that culture, making songs with people who are deeply rooted in that culture, giving opportunities to people who are in that culture that you don't appropriate, appropriating is taking it as something personal. win and deny that he was ever inspired by this, that's the real disservice anyone could do to the UK in dancehall - the afro wins me over. I've always felt good whenever I embark on one of those trips, I make sure that Not only am I paying all respects verbally, but, as I mean, I make it a point to give the opportunity to the people that I respect, you know, that It's been a constant theme on all of your albums, so yeah, a lot of The New Artist looks, yeah, 100%.

I mean, again, I'm not one of those people who can be inspired by something and say, "Oh, well, that was inspiring." Thank you and then keep going like you know, under my arm, like I'm running down. on the field I have a I have it as you know, at least honor the person who handed me the ball before I ran for the touchdown, you know, I definitely feel like it because I can, because when I do things, people are magnified and amplified. Sometimes I can feel awkward, like you know a dance is number one and now suddenly you know it's Afro inspired, but it's like, but like you know Wizkid was on the song with me and like you know I had blessings like The real Dawn is in that space, you know, I know those guys that I linked up with, those guys that go to her shows, come to my shows, play my stage, so it's like you know the talk is one thing, but in the community among the real G's that are really doing a I'm solidified, sure you can ask anyone, no one is going to sit there and say yes, like anyone who with real respect, in any of these communities, you're talking about any of these genres, no one is going to say, yeah, you know.

It'll be the guys that are like you know that didn't get the look, yeah, you know, or the guys that like aren't even relevant in that space anymore, but they have a radio interview that day and they want to be like, oh Yes, Drake, yes, me. I'm making Jamaican music, it's crazy, you know? But it's as ifthat they're ready to see Drake fall, so again, just another little like, let's try this angle, you know, it's really anything. Again, like I said, I've done study sessions with people. When I collaborate with people, I always send the idea first.

You know, I'm the one who picks the beat and goes oh. Here just put it, put a verse on this and take that for your album, you're single or whatever, you know, I work and people know me, I'm good at that, you know , that's why I'm never really stressed. I like that narrative, it's great, it's funny again, it's great for memes and people who want to laugh and all that nonsense, but I feel like in that moment I expressed it and then everything goes crazy, right, oh God, were you your friend? I know things get a little hectic with you guys at that time, right, yeah, he was uh, I think he was in a bad place mentally and yeah, he just made the decision to go crazy, you know, it was uh yeah.

I remember correctly, it was based on a show that I didn't apply for and that was really like the tip of the iceberg. I think we had a little miscommunication and he was under the impression that I confirmed that he was shooting. to one of their shows and I think it was one maybe one in Philadelphia and I didn't go and I didn't show up and you know my manager someone reached out to tell me I wasn't going and I think you know that being along with what you know there were conversations going on. between him and his lady and you know he just had this idea and maybe I didn't with him or whatever and you know he himself will tell you that he wasn't in the best of times. mental point at that moment and you know, I think he just took a sharp left and decided to go for it and felt like he had enough ammunition to maybe, you know, make a major dent in my armor or decapitate me, you know, and and Again, really I'm very good at channeling that negativity and those pressures to push myself to a next level where I just go into a calculated reactive space charge back to bed, you almost take a bully position like when you all, yeah, I mean, I just felt like I felt which you know, at that moment I thought okay, well, if we're talking about music, let me show you better than I couldn't tweet you, you know or better? which I couldn't text you about, let me, I'll just show you what it is and I don't think anyone really expected me to just jump in and defend myself and go and go first and it's Weiss, so yeah, I think so. , you know, loaded, it was, uh, it was, it was what you know, I was just seeing, I was just seeing if it was real, I was just seeing if it was because you know, you never know how someone calculates to touch is that maybe they've been sitting in the disco for six months, they hated you all this time and then they just want to fry you and so loaded was my way of saying, you know, do you know if it's real or it's just a sporadic thing? like an outburst, you know, yeah, I just wanted to know if it was real, if it was a package or if it was just like maybe a mistake on their part, you know, and I started to realize that it was there, there may be an adversarial stance. , innocence, yes, yes. and then and then I made the decision that I was going to do it again and I remember I was working on some beat, I think it's like a Boy Wonder beat or something and it was more like rapping, you know, it was going to be another 100 thing. bars and uh and uh I was with Serina at the time and uh we had been talking a lot about her and Sharapova going back and forth over the years. and uh, she had done this, she made this comment to me and she said, well, see if you're going to go, if you're going to go again, you know, you know she's like that rhythm that's there, it's just that she's like if you had to finish it, she and you know she's one of the main competitors so she said you have to finish it like she's talking about doing it again and it has to be something that appeals to everyone who's with him and half of here You can't ignore it, right?

You can't, you can't do something that's just for the moment and then it disappears, yeah, she put this battery in my back, funny enough, and then at that moment, you know, again, time this kid that you Dax entered. study and I had never met him before I played a rhythm and I was the first rhythm right and it was slow, it was super slow, it was much slower than it was and then I told 40 like the speed is to speed it up a little bit and it was just right when we heard that mmm-hmm I just said it's a demon mode, okay, and then you know for me, you really know that I don't like to glorify a situation or talk too much, obviously, because well, I'm just giving you the background of how it happened, but you know I'm not trying to sit here, so yeah, my record was very conciliatory, I mean, the bosses show that you take them out like a lot happened after that battle, right, I mean, you could write a complete.

You could do a total of 30 for 30 in mmm-hmm a battle, right, but oh yeah, I mean, by the way, you also know that these things go to another, another place, so you know, one thing I could tell you first off Well, you know Meeks. He's not a pretender, he's not a joker, he doesn't like feuding with some of these other rap kids where it's like his stories are all made up and they're not really his characters, they're not, that makes me really about it. mm-hmm and so you know and I can tell you first hand, you know, I'm not going to know, I know he's obviously made a change in his life, but I'll be the first to tell you that he really knows that guy, so it's like I'm not fighting with no Punk, you know?

And it's like, for us, to be able to turn that around, it was a great thing. I think we both felt our obligation to everyone who had eyes on us. All of us little kids had to turn that around because we know how far it could go, yeah, and it almost went, you know, so we talked about reconciliation, you know, obviously, Kris Meeke Tori blew it to a certain extent, you know, and the Things have been as aspired to by pushing it at this point in your career in your life, do you think you could ever crush a lot of things with it?

Well, you know, I mean, I'm going to be in a great healing place in my life, which is why all those people that you mentioned all those people that you mentioned I never really looked at the problems when I started to stop thinking from such a point of view. violent, paranoid and confrontational. I started to really analyze what our problem is again. What's over? again like this was a fight we had in 2009 or it's over, you know, it's over the fact that we're from the same city or it's over, you know, I was able to, you know, I was able to repair a lot of those situations. a lot of people ask me like you know why but why you do it is why why would you do it and I want I want mainly I wanted my closest friends to know that it's for me you know it's it really has a lot to do with me it's not a life funny when you're in a bunch of fights with people, you know, you have a handle on who's going to be at an event, you start moving differently, you start, you know I was changing, I was changing like a person who turns into a guy who was definitely up for it. to do terrible things, it definitely moves with a different energy and you know, like I said, it's just not a fun life when you have to look over your shoulder all the time or wonder, you know?

RA if this goes to the left who goes to who which of my friends is going to sit for two three four ten years you know what it's just not not not really not a good way to live in that particular situation that of the what you're talking about, I don't know, I have no desire to fix anything with that person and um, yeah, that situation just went away, you know, it was, it's just when you went where it went and it's just there's no there's no there's no. turn back Back, it's not like those other situations where you could push, you go too far in revealing the child and um I was ending that for the world um well, I'll say this, I tip my hat to the chest movement, I want I mean, he was a genius, he was a A genius plays chess and he definitely, you know, deserved my first quote in quotes, you know, the loss in the competitive sport of rap by choice, obviously, because IIIi retired after realizing that the gap between us allowed him to drop, you know, a bomb on the world. that that really became that that was all that was that was all that anyone cared about, you know, I, I sleep well at night knowing that I didn't leave the bars and I didn't get blasted to some crazy song that was you just know, he told the world that the biggest artists at the time have a son that he hasn't told you about, so I knew from you that it was over at that point, it wasn't even about battle rap or anything like that .

That was just that the information was too shocking, it was like I said, it was on his part, it was a cool chess move, he obviously doesn't have anything like, you know, when it comes to me, he won't have any similar respect morals, so. the other elements of the record, whether it's like them, that he's making up about my mom and dad and everything like a fool or, obviously, the part that struck me the most is like, you know, wishing like me, my friend. I have a disease like if he dies, they say to me he just isn't really wavy like me.

I'm just not with it and when I said, oh, there are rules to this, I didn't mean there are rules that anyone has to follow, but like in battle rap, you know, they just had that guy shot the other day because he was on stage and pulled out a picture of the guy's dead aunt and started rapping about that kind of stuff and it's just what there's a point where you want to stop rapping. I'm sure I could say something about how you meet your lovely lady or you meet a child or a family member and you just want not to.

I don't really rap anymore, so that's where I got to, I just had to admit that I really am, you know, and when I was making the record in response, which was a real record I know people think it's like a myth, it was like an honest vinyl beat and I found myself saying things that seemed really out of character just because I was so involved in the situation and I would get really angry and say things that I wouldn't. I don't know if in two years I'd want to hear myself say and yeah, I just, it really got me.

I just realized that no one cares about this guy, so there's not much I can say, better than Drake has a baby, that is, one of you. I know he's one of those, that, that bomb, you know and again, you know it's a dub that, as you know, he could accept, it's true that you want to reveal the kid with the Adidas campaign and things So. I wasn't At the time I was working with Adidas, I had a problem and we were toying with the idea of ​​a name being a play on a name of my son's name.

I wasn't revealing my son with a deal, so I wasn't going to have My son like it, but you know, I was just, you know, to be honest with you, I actually did a DNA test on my son and they came back. with us and they told us that the DNA test was ruined and transited and that they couldn't. I wasn't one hundred percent sure that that was my son or not, so I was in a really weird pending situation where I didn't want to tell the world that that was my son and it wasn't like that and if you see my son you understand why. , but you know, if you see my boy, you'll understand it like you knew it the moment I was there.

I mean, he's just an awesome kid. You know, the brightest blue eyes and at the time I was. I don't know, but you know it wasn't until actually it wasn't until a week before the album came out that I got confirmation that he was definitely my son. He took me two more solid tests with two different companies, so yeah, I mean, again. It wasn't like every detail of his disco was made up, so just to make it more interesting, the story isn't actually that interesting. The biggest part is that I have a son, but that's how it was.

It's not like, oh, I'm hiding in more truth and by the way, I still won't post my son because the world is crazy and like you know, you know I'm in a co-parenting situation, anyone who's in a co- paternity. -The parenting situation understands that you have to divide your time between two places, so I can't always be there to make sure it's good. The last thing I want to do is have people running around going crazy trying to catch my son and do all that crazy stuff. They do it to me here, showing up outside and, you know, voodoo dolls and nude pictures, they're not, but do you feel like maybe you crossed them?

That happened the other day, oh my God, we came in with some naked, no, no, me. No, no, now they came with some news and we had to burn them in the backyard, man, out there, like obeah and it's like a seance, but do you feel like you crossed a line when you were talking about pushing him? I will mention his wife. You know the abandoned freestyle like he's right. He can say: you mentioned my lady's name. Oh, all bets are off the table. Alright. You know, like I said, we all think differently. even in the Meek and I situation, if you listen to those records again and it's something we talked about before, if you listen back, yeah, you know we like it, we didn't really go that crazy with each other and let Nick out of and we left kind of a family out of this for the most part, like it was two weeks, more stuff about each other that you guys didn't go to, yeah, it's okay if there was information that I didn't know.It was my opportunity. like anyone who feels like you, you should have said oh, at this point I love my space, I love my job and I love my routine, and to break that for someone, they would just have to be a really special person who fits.

In that puzzle and that supports the things that I'm doing, it has to be someone who has musical taste, it has to be someone who you know, who I get along with so well to the point that when we were apart, I feel like I can't function properly. without his presence. I have encountered this several times. I have to be able to keep it for whatever reason, but yeah, really, you know, I'm the Captain of a ship and I look behind me, I see a lot of people on board and you know, full steam ahead, that's how I have to keep rocking for now and I hope I can find someone. you know, you can stand next to me behind the wheel and help me drive while we continue the trip, a Zappos that I have to pull over and stop because that person is getting dizzy, that makes sense, sounds like a dream, oh God, David Ricky, well. in my statement, thank you was that a situation or a relationship with Jennifer Lopez came together or was it just yes, I love her very much, we had, we had good times together and yes, we were dating at one point, that's how it was.

It was an honor to be around her, she's a great artist, a great mother and yeah, I have nothing but positive things to say about it, we had another drink, you know, absolutely amazing, thank you guys, I appreciate that it's great now and I feel what in commercial terms. are some of the movements that you guys are making sure that people miss your content in the world yeah no it's 2020 it's going to be a great time and you know you're not guys yeah thank you yeah the dream team is our company, you know we have a lot. of other things in the works, obviously, top boy season two, euphoria season two, it's a space that we both really love and there are so many incredible filmmakers and directors and writers that deserve a chance, you know, in the era where the people are just remaking old movies and making superhero movies over and over again we just stand for something that's like you know stories that need to be told so yeah I'm definitely excited about the trailer and the music and the music album and it's fun.

Okay, look at me, wait the next 10 years. Drake man carry on if I myself you know the same way we can sit here talking all this talk all these hours about who I used to be or you know who I once was or what I once thought were my dreams I guess it's just like a reset button , look at all of us, it's weird because it's really just the number change and it's like 19 to 20, but in your mind I think it's probably going to do something to all of us where it's like you know. We're embarking on a different journey, so you're going to have to know more self-discovery, you know, hopefully, going up, not down, and building some more of these different places, and yeah, I said, yeah.

I don't know, I don't know, I'm never really one of those people who has a list in my room of similar things that need to happen. I just take it as it comes. What's one of your biggest accomplishments, you know, looking back on the last ten years musically here, well, I guess so, like I don't know, I guess it's a generic answer, but it would just be the fact that I like it. the feeling. What I feel when I am in the world is one of respect. I really think my career has a lot of integrity and I think I'm really excited about that because I think I could have let that fall a lot.

A lot of times you know and I also think one of my biggest achievements is the fact that I didn't let this massive change in my life destroy me, you know, I still don't, I still don't do drugs, you know, I drink, but even if I drink all on days I don't drink until I pass out I don't drink to escape my sadness I don't drink to the point that it affects my family here in my career I think I'm just happy to be still intact, you know that's my greatest achievement. I earned a lot of money.

I mean, you know I've done a lot of things, I've been a lot of places, I've had a lot of opportunities to do this and I didn't do it, and you know it could be. at dinner with my mom and I still hear her say like you know I'm proud you're still there you're there you know I'm looking at you you're there you're you it's not like a shell of who you used to be or something, you know, like I said, you know what with all the things you know. I just watched the little documentary on Netflix, which is a really great documentary, you should watch it and you shouldn't.

I really didn't know too much. about him at the time, but now all of a sudden I'm deeply involved in the career that he had, but it's really, really people don't understand how overwhelming this is for these young kids and I was I was young, I was too that young once, some of the time, and you know, some people say no. I can never understand how you know that you can't understand until you get here, how crazy this can be when you're carrying a bunch of people on your back and you expect to do a lot, so I would say that's my biggest accomplishment, it's just that it's still being heard and I pray that all these guys move forward, you know, taking one day at a time, keeping the right people around you and just knowing that even when it's like that, you know it's overwhelming, just know that it's not like you know the ending that you know it is.

It's not like that, I just want, I just want people to stay, that's really the most important thing. You know, that with me when we lose people and stuff. I don't like that stuff because I want to hear it. I want to hear what all these things do. Children have to offer you something.