In from December, the rapper touched on many different aspects his career. Though Drizzy did indicate that , he also noted Kanye’s 808s & Heartbreaks album as inspiration for to start singing. Another source motivation for him to pursue singing was “obviously, .”
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“’21 Questions’ will probably be my most inspiring example a guy who’s not supposed to be singing, singing,” Drake said about Fif’s 2003 hit with . , Fif told Variety that he was overjoyed to hear what Drake had said about him.
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“Drake was saying recently that I had influenced him to start singing, which was the coolest sh*t in the world for him to say, because he confessed. “I was always just trying to outline the melody. Because once you have a broad enough audience, you’re gonna have people who don’t speak English, so all they can follow is the melody…And when you’re writing lyrics], I mean: ‘Go shorty, it’s your birthday’ — that’s not rocket science. Every day is somebody’s birthday.” It is indeed, 50.