Drake gets the verse back from Kanye and unexpectedly finds Jay Z on it. Drake's less than enthused. He didn't plan on having Jay on the album, and he doesn't like how it sounds. But how do you tell Jay Z, the most powerful rapper on the planet, that his shit is weak and you want to cut his part out? How do you tell Kanye, who was apparently in excited steamroller Kanye mode, that his brilliant idea to bring in Jay didn't work? I find it hard to believe this was about money, everyone involved is far too wealthy to be sweating payment for a guest verse or haggling over publishing points.
The only thing that makes sense to me is that this was about pride and ego. From Jay's perspective, wouldn't he feel like, "Oh, you want to cut me out? From Drake's perspective, how do you tell two hip-hop icons what they did wasn't good enough to make your album? There had to have been more politics happening behind the scenes here than Capitol Hill.
Maybe he didn't say a word, maybe he tried to maneuver Kanye into cutting out Jay, but either way Drake clearly initially folded and put the song out as is. Maybe he had even convinced himself that it actually sounded dope, but the public reaction confirmed his worst fears. Now he was backed into a corner. Even if Kanye and Jay were cool with Jay being cut out, which I doubt, removing just Jay for the album would provoke endless speculation about the drama between the two, and removing the song entirely wouldn't work.
Axing an album's mega lead single weeks later would look even worse. So Drake did the only thing he could do - he took the entire verse off. All of this is obviously the kind of speculation hip-hop obsessives like us are forced to do in lieu of actual answers, but it makes sense to me. Ultimately the music industry is a relationship business, and Drake and Jay have one of the most complicated relationships in the business, both musically and professionally ex.
Apple Music vs. On good terms they could help each other immeasurably, on bad terms they could spark a hip-hop Civil War. Which is why Drake took such pains to follow his story with some diplomacy:. I've expressed my admiration for Jay countless times, that'll never change. Sometimes we just fall on opposite ends of the spectrum when it comes to the rap world. And it's always mutual respect, but sometimes it has to be from afar due to other In a decade, when the stakes are lower and everyone's had some time to cool off, we'll get the full story.
But in the meantime, Drake's anti-interview stance or at least anti-interviews he can't control stance means we'll have to guess at what happened between three absolute music powerhouses that lead to a massive single being completely removed from the album almost overnight.
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