DRAKE- Started from the Bottom and Now He is Here

Drake covers the July issue of GQ magazine and sit’s down for an interview to discuss his current drama with Chris Brown, his views of love & Sex, his latest hit single “Started From The Bottom”, and his new album Nothing Was The Same being the album “you will listen to all summer”. The interview also reveals that Drizzy will be sampling two musical legends, Whitney Houston on a track and Curtis Mayfield at a 1987 concert in Montreux saying “Having the same fears, shedding similar tears, and of course dying in so many years, it don’t mean that we can’t have a good life.

On other rappers hating on him:
“You notice they don’t criticize the music itself, though…I’m okay with that.”

On being abstinent, sort of:

“You know the way fighters don’t fuck before the fight? Sometimes I feel like I’m so focused on training my body and getting my mind right to create this album that sex isn’t one of my main priorities. If someone is around that I know and trust, I’m down. But I’m not going to end up with some stranger at this party.”

On love:
“[Will Smith said] It’s not about wanting anymore, you need that person. Hearing that, I don’t know if I’ve ever felt that way…I’ve made a lot of music about love being the only thing I’m missing. I think this is the first album I’ve made saying, ‘I’m okay, I’m enjoying it right now.’ Maybe this is my time to grind it out, make a run for it, and add some memories with my boys.”


On “Started From The Bottom”:
“I think a lot of people wish their favorite rapper wrote it — as if a song like that should be gangster—but I was the one who wrote it, and everyone has their bottom. As for my whole story, I wouldn’t change a thing. I’ve told bits and pieces of it—and I’ll tell more.”
“Maybe because I had friends who grew up in the hood, I could have acted like I had, too, and perpetrated a different lifestyle, and it would be eating away at me because it wouldn’t be the truth. I’m actually here in front of you living the truth. I wake up in the morning and my heart is light, man. It’s not heavy. I don’t have skeletons in the closet on their way out. This is my real age, my real name, my real past, and I’m good with that.”


On his upcoming album, Nothing Was The Same:
“This is my fucking moment to say if I wanted to rap all the time, really rap, I would, but I also love to make music. I’ll do this for you right now. But it’s for me, too. It’s my story…I’m trying to get back to that kid in the basement. To say what he has to say. And I’m trying to make it last.”
“I ain’t gonna lie: I want to be the one you listen to all summer.”