Drake recently sat down with MTV News in his Canadian hometown and explained how the song, produced by Tone Mason and co-produced by his October’s Very Own cohort Noah “40″ Shebib, came to fruition.
The track will be included on the rapper’s forthcoming debut, Thank Me Later, tentatively slated for a March release.
“When I heard that beat, the drums that they had come up with, it was like, ‘Man, this is a moment,’ ” he said. ” ‘This sounds like where I’m at in my life.’ So, we took it and 40 did what he does to pieces of music that I see potential in — he took it to the next spot. Jay-Z’s on it. The song is phenomenal. It’s done now.”
The pair previously worked together on Jay-Z’s “Off That,” from Hov’s The Blueprint 3 project.
The Timbaland-produced track, however, only featured Drake on the hook instead of contributing a verse alongside Jay. This time, the two MCs both had their say on “Light Up.” Though upstart MC was able to recruit the Roc Nation head into the fold for his first album, in addition to expected collabos with Lil Wayne and Kanye West, Drake said he’s trying to downplay the guest list and focus on his humble beginnings.
I’m really looking forward to this song and album. The first single should be coming out pretty soon unless the album gets delayed (which seems pretty likely nowadays).
KiD CuDi recently talked about the shady moves and business ways of the music industry and even attacked some artists that are trying to ruin his name. During a concert in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, the freshman rapper told the crowd his thoughts on what is currently going on. “They trying to make me look like the poster boy for violence and ignorance,” Cudi said. “I tell motherf*ckers I’m the poster boy for honesty, realness, anarchy, I don’t give a f*ck about this business.”
Cudi continued by talking about other artists. “I’m the truest motherf*cker in this business and people trying to destroy me. All these other n*ggas that y’all probably fans of is sucker a** n*ggas, I met them. N*ggas I was a fan of when I was buying their CDs, I’m not a fan of they music no more. This business is WWF fam and if you don’t comply, they try to destroy you…I never talk sh*t, I came to this game, just wanted to smoke my weed and motherf*ckers just wanna destroy me, I don’t give a f*ck. I’m unstoppable.”
1) Intro
2) My Bad
3) Shitty City Pt2
4) Who’s Your Favorite
5) We Remain
6) Better You Know Me
7) I Do
8) Its Going Down – Lip Service
9) Look Ma
10) Rather Be Me
11) Power Pack
12) Only Human
13) No Escape feat Tony Yayo
14) The Get Back – Southside in the House
15) Probably Want Me Down
16) Greenday feat Havoc ,Cormega
17) Big Bully – Full Version
There still aren’t many tracks, but there should be a lot more coming out around New Year’s. Fabolous is supposed to be dropping The Funeral Service: There Is No Competition 2 then.
I hope everyone had a great Christmas. There has been literally NO rap coming out since Christmas, so I thought I’d post this interview with 50 talking about rap this year.
