my-HipHop - Drake Covers Complex

Talks R&B vs. Hip Hop
03:00PM ET January 25, 2010
Contributor : Hip Hop Blog Staff

Drake graces the first 2010 cover for Complex magazine and in the feature article he discusses his rise to fame, the few roadblocks he’s encountered and the pressure to live up to the hype. He also talks about the long awaited debut album "Thank Me Later" which is due to hit stores later this year.

Here Drake talks about the difference in his writing style for different types of music.

"With R&B, I know my sound. I know I make records to f*ck to," he explained in an interview with Damien Scott. "The way Jay and Wayne write rap, I write R&B. I don't write lyrics down on paper. The other day, I was in the studio with Alicia Keys, and I wrote two songs just speaking to her. I wish I could write that way for rap. With my rap songs, there's so much of me I have to give that I don't know if I could ever just flow. The thing is, I'm a great rapper. There's two elements to rap: having the thoughts, and then being a great rapper. I can really rap the sh*t that I write. My tone, my inflection. When I listen to myself on records, I don't feel like I don't belong there. When I listen to 'Forever,' with three of my heroes, I fit right in."

When asked if he compares his mixtape success with the album he's currently working on Drake responded by saying, “Understand that my music is in a lot of mediums. It's in clubs, it's on the radio, it's at basketball games, it's the theme song when girls wanna get naked on WorldStar HipHop. Some people want me to make an R&B album. Some people want me to never sing again. I just don't want people to be able to draw comparisons between my old songs and my new ones."

Comparison is inevitable. Hopefully the fans will thank him later.