Na de breed uitgemetenMeek Mill vs Drakebeef, die begon met een beschuldiging van Meek dat Drake een ghostwriter zou hebben, heeft Drake, op zijn 2 dis-tracks Charged UpenBack 2 Backna, niet erover gesproken in de media. Maar Drake verbreekt de stilte! In een interview metThe Faderbespreekt hij hoe hij de hele beef heeft beleefd. Zo vertelt hij dat zijn broer hem belde over de Meek beschuldigingen en zij samen naar de radio luisterden op de avond dat hij Charged Up had opgenomen:
-“I’m just gonna bring it up ‘cause it’s important to me,” he says. “I was at a charity kickball game—which we won, by the way—and my brother called me. He was just like, ‘I don’t know if you’re aware, but, yo, they’re trying toendus out here. They’re just spreading, like,propaganda. Where are you? You need to come here.’ So we all circled up at the studio, and sat there as Flex went on the air, and these guys flip-flopped [about how] they were gonna do this, that, and the third.”
Maar toen er geen antwoord op Charged Up kwam, kon hij het niet geloven:
-“This is a discussion about music, and no one’s putting forth any music?” “You guys are gonna leave this for me to do? This is how you want to play it? You guys didn’t think this through at all—nobody? You guys have high-ranking members watching over you. Nobody told you that this was a bad idea, to engage in this and not have something? You’re gonna engage in a conversation about writing music, and delivering music, with me? And not have anything to put forth on the table?”
-“It was weighing heavy on me,” he says. “I didn’t get it. I didn’t get how there was no strategy on the opposite end. I just didn’t understand. I didn’t understand it because that’s just not how we operate.” Toen dacht hij, laat ik dan maar nóg een disstrack droppen, en dat werd Back 2 Back:
-“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.” Volgens een grote meerderheid van HipHop fans was Back 2 Back de genadeklap voor Meek en had Drake duidelijk de beef gewonnen, maar hij bleef er nuchter over:
“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,” “And I don’t know if I’m really here to even clarify it for you.” Hij staat open voor een debat over de originaliteit van Hip-Hop, na de ghostwriting beschuldigingen:
“If I have to be the vessel for this conversation to be brought up—you know, God forbid we start talking about writing and references and who takes what from where—I’m OK with it being me,”
“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.”
[Bron: The Fader ]
