Jan 13, 2016 http://news.hiphopearly.com/drake-start-career-working-death-row-records/ Drake, the unrivaled biggest star of his generation, got his first real music industry job as a teenager working for Dr. Dre at Aftermath Records. That's a real thing that really happened in reality. Yesterday, Genius wrote an article titled, "Did Drake Work at Death Row Before He Was Famous?" that highlighted a passage from John Seabrook's recent book, The Song Machine: Inside The Hit Factory. Could it be true? Could the the man who came to fame with a song that assured women they looked prettier with no make up on have once worked for Suge Knight at the infamous west coast gangster rap label? It turns that no, it's not true, not exactly, but in many ways the full story is far more interesting. I reached out to Seabrook to confirm and in an an email he wrote that while Drake didn't specify exact years, he told Seabrook that when he was "like 19" (so somewhere around 2005) he and his production and songwriting partner Noah "40" Shebib did indeed move out to L.A. to work as songwriters, but for Dr. Dre at Aftermath Records, not Suge Knight at Death Row Records, which around 2005 would have been in the process of shutting down as a label. And according to Seabrook, Drake told him they were paid $10,000 for their work and lived at the Oakwood Apartments, a complex with a well-earned reputation in L.A. as being filled with child actors and other naive entertainment industry hopefuls just arriving in the city of angels. Obviously nothing came of Drake's short stint at the label, and in his book Seabrook quotes Drake as saying of his time there: “It was some of the most strenuous militant s--- I’ve ever done. But no useable songs came out of it. When I think of how he worked us, it’s no wonder he didn’t get anything out of it. It was just writers in a room churning out product all day long.” - Drake While it's initally mind blowing to think that the same man who just surpassed the Beatles for the most Top 100 hits ever once worked as a teenager for Dr. Dre, when you take a step back it makes sense. At the time, three years before he'd release So Far Gone and before he met Lil Wayne, Drake was a Degrassi actor anxious to snap up any opportunity in the music industry he hoped to move into, even if it was at the kind of factory-style songwriting system Drizzy mentioned. And since Drake had that experience so early in his career, you'd have to assume it shaped the far more more personal and intensive approach to music [cough, cough] that's made him such a star. We all have to start somewhere, but who would have guessed that Drake started with Aftermath? http://djbooth.net/news/entry/2016-01-13-drake-songwriter-death-row?noredirection=true @DrakeSXN since no-one came ITT i had to put the spoiler in the title.
Jan 13, 2016 Nah (edit mayb) but somewhere in the vault he got songs where he is singing/rapping fo sho now
Jan 13, 2016 Imagine if somebody pulled a Meek and attacked Dre in 2005 saying "AUBREY GRAHM WRITES YOUR RAPS" in an interview
Jan 13, 2016 d--- rip to all the dre joints about that one girl that never believed in him we never heard
Jan 13, 2016 Still haven't found the true story on this song but it's still>>>>>> I'll throw this in there too Being a former Game discog addict I've heard a lot of s--- lol
Jan 13, 2016 @Immy not at all, I like drizzy Doesnt surprise me honestly, drake has worked for dre before and hes written for other artists, thats a fact
