Drake Says “I Plan To Work With Lil Wayne For The Rest Of My Career”
“To go independent is — like I said in a prior interview — it’s a funny term,” Drake told MTV News on Tuesday, addressing the deal that finds his albums being released on Wayne’s independent Young Money label (which is affiliated with Cash Money Records) and being distributed by the major Universal Republic. “Because it’s almost impossible to go fully independent. This was basically like the closest thing I could get to my own independence, to sort of continuing to be that guy to the fans that, you know, is trying to prove something — trying to prove that it can be done. So with that being said, I signed directly to Cortez Bryant and Gee Roberson, my two managers, and their company Inspire. It’s a joint venture with Young Money, so that’s the deal. I know there’s been a lot of stuff on the Internet about different entities, but that’s the people involved in the main record deal. And then it’s distributed through Universal, so it’s great, man. You know, if we can sell some records I think it could be a pretty legendary situation.”
Although Drake decided to stay with his managers (who also manage Lil Wayne), he said he loved the courting process.
“Well, the whole thing with me was, I met some great people along the way. Warner Music’s Lyor Cohen is such a special man to me, even though I am signed where I am signed at. You know, Interscope head Jimmy Iovine, same thing, a great person that taught me a lot in a very short period of time. But my loyalty lays with Wayne. For him to be able to benefit from the situation and for us to be able to brand Young Money, this is the route that I went.
“I plan to work with Wayne for the rest of my career so I think it’s a smart career move,” he added. “You know, everybody else on Young Money will hopefully work out the situations, get the right people on the album. I think it was important for me to show him that I believed in him as much as he believed in me. Because a lot of months he stuck his neck out there for me, you know with the VMAs, and then ‘Ransom,’ and all the songs that we put out. And the things he would say in interviews, he really put himself out there for me. So I think it was only just and fair to show him that I feel the same way.”
Shouts to MTV and I can’t believe how much Drake I am posting on this website now – But at least, this has something to do with Weezy 
These two make a great team
i am so glad he signed to young money…. he made the right choice
This move will benefit drake in tha future, because wayne just has that status, no matter what he does in his personal life, music wise he’s an icon. Good move by drake
that is really good. drake should work with lil wayne for the rest of his career.
hell yeah. my two favorite rapers.
YES.the best move he can do,and did it.
Dream Team!
t-wayne now drake watts next
Perfect! If I ever get to work with you guy it will be dream I got the same style just working my way up see u soon look out
I dont know, I heard an audioclip of Drake speaking on working with Lil Wayne and it sounded gay. His quote was something like, “I really enjoyed getting down with Wayne. He is just so great. Ooh. OOOOOOOOOOOOOH”. There was something about the first “ooh” that on a scale of 1-10, was a 10, with 10 being very very very very very gay.
Im not saying anything, just sayin’.
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