Drake Speaks On “Gangsta Grillz” Brand; DJ Drama Responds

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XXL recently published some outtakes from their interview with Drake in their latest issue. Drizzy commented on the brand of DJ Drama’s Gangsta Grillz brand of mixtapes saying that they don’t last long and he finds the concept boring.  He has clarified his statements saying he meant no disrespect towards Drama or his brand.  Check out his quote and Drama’s Twitter reaction:

How many songs are on Thank Me Later?

Drake: It’ll probably end up being about 15. But it’s just, you know, I love doing R&B music, I really do. And I just always feel like to tie in hip-hop with R&B and to utilize R&B to glue it all together, that’s my trademark. That’s something that only I can do. And that’s why I will continue to do it. There might come a time where I might be like, “Yo, I just want to do an R&B mixtape, or I just want to do a whole [R&B] album,” but I don’t think so, man. I think that that is the makeup of me-melody and just the tone of my voice and all; I don’t think I could ever change that, so…

I’m waiting on the Drake Gangsta Grillz.

Drake: [Laughs] I just find that boring, you know. There’s certain people where it’s impressive, like with Lil Wayne, to hear him freestyling over other people’s beats for an hour is impressive because it’s just like, Yo, this guy never runs out of clever shit to say, but for me, people might want to hear it, but it’s just not something that I really want to give you. I’d rather just give you something that lasts a little longer than that ’cause those mixtapes never really last much longer than six months.

Here’s DJ Drama reaction:

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