By no means was this an official collaboration, but the original leaked version featured only one verse from Lil Wayne and extra beat time. The Empire was once cool with an up-and-coming rapper out of Houston named Question?- a former DJBooth favorite-and that is where this record's buzz was birthed. Even if he did, though, he wouldn’t have cared since Drake was his own artist. A simple leak inspired the first big hit record for Drake’s career.

I’ve been excited by that sort of creative process.”ĭid Wayne ever notice Drake's apparent longtime ideology? Since he was recording so much, maybe he didn’t. And that’s kind of what ‘Hotline Bling’ was. So sometimes I’ll pick a beat that’s a bit, like, sunnier, I guess is the word you used, than usual, and I just try my hand at it. Imagine if we got one beat and every single person-me, this guy, this guy, all these guys-had to do a song on that one beat. Imagine that in rap, or imagine that in R&B. “You know, like in Jamaica, you’ll have a riddim and it’s like, everyone has to do a song on that. Long before Drake was taking D.R.A.M.'s “Cha Cha” and flipping it into “Hotline Bling,” he was doing the same thing to Wayne. Listen to “That’s My Nigga” and you’ll immediately notice a similarity between the flow Weezy delivers and what Drake executed on “Best I Ever Had.” Certainly, “That’s My Nigga” isn’t the best of the C3 leaks, but it provides historical context to what Drake recently told FADER: Lyrically, Weezy delivered creative lines like, “ Could’ve been a killer but Cash Money saved me / Remember I was a little but the Cash Money made me,” which are now particularly memorable in light of his recent problems with Birdman, and he also makes references to “Prostitute” and another Banner-produced track, “Pussy Monster,” which didn’t have a CDQ version at the time it was released. Here, David Banner took Hall & Oates’ “Wait For Me” and flipped it into what would become “Never Get It.” Each record revolved around an old soul sample that seemed like a fortune in sample clearance waiting to happen. Besides shouting out a beatmaker, there was nothing to distinguish one song from another production-wise. If you didn’t know any better, you might suspect Lil Wayne had one producer who was supplying him all these sample-heavy beats.

It also became “The Flyest” instead of “Outstanding.” There was never any explanation for how it got into the hands of The Empire or if Wayne himself planned to use the song on Tha Carter III. The finished product, which wound up on Solitair’s own album, filled in what the leak missed, a hook. “But since I’m such a b*tch I didn’t even let him hear it.” “Maybe I could get this Jay,” Cipha says in a making of the beat video. The beat’s origin spawned almost a year prior when the two had hoped to get it to another Mr. The geniuses behind the song's production were Cipha Sounds and Solitair.

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