Drake Interview w/ Complex
Complex spoke to Drake yesterday to discuss the new record deal, the Best I Ever Had video (click play,) discusses some of the fuckshit that went down at the BET Awards
Complex: For real. Going back to your music, “Best I Ever Had” jumped to #3 on the Billboard charts. And then you announced yesterday that you signed your deal with Universal…
Drake: Nah…I definitely want to clear this up, I didn’t sign to Universal. I’m actually signed to… a lot of people were telling me, “Oh, you should do it independent.” I’m actually 100% independent. I signed to Cortez Bryant and G. Roberson, my managers, so I signed a joint venture between Aspire Music Group, which is them, and Young Money. So the only part that Universal plays is P&D [pressing and distribution]. I’m not a Universal artist. I’m signed to myself.
Complex: What does Young Money bring to the table?
Drake: Since the beginning of this, Lil’ Wayne has always put himself out there on behalf of me, from spitting my verse at the VMAs, to jumping on the songs that I needed him on and always promoting me. Right now it’s more about building up Young Money, as opposed to what Young Money brings to the table at this point. Obviously, what Young Money brings to the table is Lil’ Wayne. He’s a powerhouse and I felt it was only fair to stay loyal. I thought it was only fair for him to get that look and I wanted the YM logo on the album and to make sure that he knows that I don’t take what he did for me for granted.
Complex: You were entertaining other offers from Atlantic and Interscope, right?
Drake: I can definitely say that I wanted to be over at Interscope for a while, but it wouldn’t allow me to work with Wayne the way that I wanted to work with Wayne. I had to make a sacrifice. But with that being said, if we sell some records and people actually see how the record deal breaks down… Somebody told me they saw my deal the other day and they said it was one of the worst record deals in history [for] the label. That’s a good thing for me. I own everything, I have 100% creative control, I own all my masters, everything. I’m blessed to be in that situation. If we sell some records, I think we’ll just add to the historic pace that this has been going at.
There you have it, it’s not UMG, it’s Aspire - which if I understood correctly is what G & Tez are trying to bring to the table. It’s dope that Drake signed with Wayne, even though a lotta people might be stepping away from him right now, because if he woulda went with say Jay or Ye or even anyone else, it woulda seemed like he just used Wayne to get signed.
He then goes on to address some of the fuckshit that goes down at other hip hop websites and what he thinks of it. Check out the full interview here.
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July 2nd, 2009 at 12:03 pm
to me, the saddest thing about michael was the depth of his self-hatred
he despised his beautiful black features (brown skin, broad nose, etc.) to the point where he destroyed himself (absurdly high cheekbones, cleft chin, multiple rhinoplasties that obliterated his nose, skin bleaching and make-up, lip thinning, etc.)
and even more - he despised his own features so much that he refused to use his own sperm to have his kids for fear that they would look black, so he thinks he has fooled the world by parading obviously caucasian children about - trying to pass them off as his own - which is more absurd that any of the 80s stunts michael pulled (cryogenic freezing, etc.)
not to mention that he was a pedo who never craved ordinary sexual relations with a grown woman
i feel so bad for this tortured remnant of a man - his music was dope but he struck me as the kind of guy who despised life when he woke up and despised it when he slept, permanently scarred by joe jackson, who should have been put away for life for his maltreatment of his kids
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:03 pm
co-sign Chea
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:04 pm
SMH @ my London Brethren London Bloke
Ur pathetic
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:06 pm
who am I kidding, there’s no fucking way I’m gonna lose 20lbs in 2 months.
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:06 pm
michael should have had one real kid just to see if that kid would have inherited the music talent. because you KNOW these little brats prince michael and prince michael II etc are gonna all try to be pop stars but they’re all gonna be wack as shit
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:07 pm
Word Chea.
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:07 pm
Anybody nahggers out there come up off that rent money to get the Kanye Louies yet?
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:07 pm
on GP i lost 15 pounds cutting out most desserts - dessert is what fucks u, not regular food
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:08 pm
Mike even made one or more of the kids dye their hair blond … like even THEY werent white enough for him already …. Mike wanted his kids to look like Boomer Esiason, Jared Weaver and McCauley Caulkin …
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:08 pm
they aint no taller than the 6 foot tall eurobeasts they slaughter at Wimbeldon every year … you sound dumb …
^^This. I ain’t a tennis fan but I love seeing the Williams sisters dominate. I know that those white ppl have to be pissed. Shit them chicks crushed everyone, went away for minute, then came back and took over again. You will never see that type of shit again and it makes me pissed that they don’t get the recognition 4 it that they should.
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:08 pm
Farouq (ya thats my government) aka Nah’s Ving Rames in Baby Boy Says:
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:01 pm
Kidada > all his other daughters
^^^
that Leftover Groupie Pussy, Naw
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:08 pm
# eskay Says:
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:02 pm e
Rashida would get it.
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cosign
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:08 pm
Damn Ya’ll niggas is fat
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:09 pm
Anybody nahggers out there come up off that rent money to get the Kanye Louies yet?
^
no, i can’t drop a grand on some kicks only so that my son can grow up and tell stories about how his dad is a fuck-up who never saved money for his kids because he kept buying sneakers *realest shit i ever wrote, and all eyes on me like a microscope (c) 17-5*
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:09 pm
why am I always being moderated?
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:10 pm
MJ and Debbie rowe arent biological parents to any of their kids.
MJ didnt even legally adopt any of them
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:10 pm
>> why am I always being moderated?
STFU
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:10 pm
Mike even made one or more of the kids dye their hair blond
^
co-sigs
“that’s the shit that hurt” (c) kanye
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:10 pm
EVERYTIME I comment I get moderated….what the fuck is going on?
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:11 pm
I just got moderated right there…
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:11 pm
and right there
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:11 pm
>>they aint no taller than the 6 foot tall eurobeasts they slaughter at Wimbeldon every year … you sound dumb
yeah, but they got 50 lbs on any of them, easy.
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:11 pm
Sometimes people look at me funny cuz My daughter has blonde hair and hazel eyes and ask me if her mother is white, like there isnt mad Middle Easterns/Mexicans running around with that shit. lol
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:12 pm
at least one of them test tube babies is gonna be a serial killer …
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:12 pm
# nation Says:
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:10 pm
>> why am I always being moderated?
STFU
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WHY? cause its true?
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:13 pm
smfh and broffle-bopters at debbie rowe, this big white chick was married to the king of pop?! she look like the chick that ring me up at aldi (yes like gucci man sometimes chea fucks with aldi - it’s a recession, whatchu want from me)
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:14 pm
eskay Says:
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:11 pm
>>they aint no taller than the 6 foot tall eurobeasts they slaughter at Wimbeldon every year … you sound dumb
yeah, but they got 50 lbs on any of them, easy.
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you need more ESPN … Venus is still a bag of bones … and dont act like them eurodykes aint got them big tree legs … what are you watching?… that french Amelie Mauresmo ho is built like Brian Urlacher …
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:15 pm
It’s funny how he hated being black but wanted to hang around rappers and ballers.
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:15 pm
This London Bloke nigga is the type of motherfucker I would slap.
YO SO YESTERDAY I AM driving home from work listening to the local Sports talk radio and they’re going on and on about Kobiyashi and Nascar drivers and other niggas if they’re athletes or not, cuz they have a skill that they may train for that a normal person may not be able to do. So I send a text to some homies and tell them to listen in cuz I am about to call and go in.
I call and Say “Whats up Fellas so Ive been listening in for a few minutes and you guys have been making interesting points about skill/athletics/sport or not. So would you say the girl that takes part in a gang bang is an athlete?” and I hang up.
turn up the radio, 5seconds go by and them niggas die of laughter. My cuzzo text me “CLASSIC”
GNR
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:15 pm
I Know why I was Moderated….Dre moderated me when I made a comment as Mr. 2 step…This nigga was mad cause I played him and said he posted the same post as nation….It was a joke….He got mad and moderated me…
Dude is mad aggy
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:15 pm
>> WHY? cause its true?
you think i sit there and hold you after class on purpose? pipe down
it’s probably cause you change names every two seconds, that’s considered spamming. just sit tight and say what you have to say and stop drawing attention to yourself
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:16 pm
*lookalikes*
Debbie Rowe & Owen Wilson
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:17 pm
^
Ok tough guy! [n]
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:17 pm
You re-posted the video?!?! That’s fuckin disgusting…..never seen shit done like this before.
Embarasing.
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:19 pm
>>You re-posted the video?!?! That’s fuckin disgusting…..never seen shit done like this before.
the interview is about the video dickwad.
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:19 pm
niggas dont even watch tennis and they paraphrasing old tired redneck insults about Venus & Serena Williams … SMH …
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:19 pm
# nation Says:
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:15 pm
>> WHY? cause its true?
you think i sit there and hold you after class on purpose? pipe down
it’s probably cause you change names every two seconds, that’s considered spamming. just sit tight and say what you have to say and stop drawing attention to yourself
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No your boy Dre did it. I’m getting moderated after every single post and this one is getting moderated also. NOT because I changed names. I been doing that forever and never had a problem. No Need for attention I just want my comments unmoderated.
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:20 pm
>>the interview is about the video dickwad.
please…
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:32 pm
# Farouq (ya thats my government) aka Nah’s Ving Rames in Baby Boy Says:
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:15 pm
This London Bloke nigga is the type of motherfucker I would slap.
YO SO YESTERDAY I AM driving home from work listening to the local Sports talk radio and they’re going on and on about Kobiyashi and Nascar drivers and other niggas if they’re athletes or not, cuz they have a skill that they may train for that a normal person may not be able to do. So I send a text to some homies and tell them to listen in cuz I am about to call and go in.
I call and Say “Whats up Fellas so Ive been listening in for a few minutes and you guys have been making interesting points about skill/athletics/sport or not. So would you say the girl that takes part in a gang bang is an athlete?” and I hang up.
turn up the radio, 5seconds go by and them niggas die of laughter. My cuzzo text me “CLASSIC”
GNR
^
Dead
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:46 pm
Has Drake been on an magazine cover yet??
wtf.. is that about..
VibeXXL is slacking majorlyJuly 2nd, 2009 at 12:57 pm
Wow… Drake actually has character. I can respect that at least.
July 2nd, 2009 at 1:51 pm
I figured this post would have alot of comments…this video is tough including the girl’s stretching and “bouncing” around.
July 2nd, 2009 at 4:50 pm
>>the interview is about the video dickwad.
Come on man. There is nothing in this interview pertaining to the video.
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