It was a little over eight years ago that Drake and Lil Wayne had hinted that they wrote for Dr. Dre for Detox. Well now it appears that the line from their Ransom track may very well be true.
Long-time staff writer of The New Yorker released the must-read book last fall, The Song Machine: Inside The Hit Factory, in which he revealed some never-before-heard stories from the pop and urban world of the late 90s and early 2000s. Last week, reports surfaced that Drake was rumored to have worked with Dr. Dre at Death Row Records before he left in 1996.
Obviously, due to Toronto native only being 10 years old at the time, the rumor just didn’t hold any water. Luckily, Seabrook soon confirmed that 6ix God did indeed work with The Doctor, but that would be nearly a decade later when Drake was 19. Drizzy personally recalss his time with Aftermath Records during 2005 as a ghostwriter for DETOX, which you can read below.
“It was some of the most strenuous militant shit 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.”
Those tracks may leak at some point especially since Detox was deprecated after 10+ years of waiting and replaced by the Compton album that was released last year.
You can pick up Seabook’s new book at Amazon right now.
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