NecoleBitchie: You can say what you want about Drake, but that man is FOCUSED.
No gimmicks, no beef and no PR-orchestrated relationships will overshadow his music this year. As he gears up for the release of his new album, Nothing Was The Same, he’s covering GQ where he talks about wanting to sit down man-to-man with Chris Brown, as well as his current thoughts on love. In the cover story, titled “How To Drake It In America,” he also reveals that he has no desire to sleep around with random women.
Catch a few highlights:
On refusing to sleep around
You know the way fighters don’t f--- 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 other rappers criticizing him:
You notice they don’t criticize the music itself, though…I’m okay with that.
On the Chris Brown drama:
I hear he has everything he could want now. I don’t want my name to be synonymous with that guy’s name. I really don’t. I wish we could sit down just like you and me are right now, and talk it out man-to-man. But that’s not going to happen. I’m not confrontational, but if someone challenges, I’m not going to back down. If I think about it too much, I feel it wrapping around my foot, like I get a feeling it could end really badly…Like, it gets really dark.
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.
Drake does a good job of defying every single stereotype of rappers.
