AllRespect.com // Drake Talks 'Crafting' DJ Khaled's 'I'm On One' Collabo

Posted on 2011-06-01 03:00:22
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Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1664850/drake-dj-khaled.jhtml

'That's the first time anybody has ever heard all three of us on a record,' Drizzy tells MTV News of teaming with Rick Ross, Lil Wayne.By Rob Markman, with reporting by Ricky Louis

DrakePhoto: MTV News

Drake is such a nice guy. When DJ Khaled approached Drizzy to appear on a track off of his upcoming Cash Money album, We the Best Forever, the Thank Me Later MC wanted to lend something memorable to his friend's project. The result, "I'm On One," Khaled's latest single featuring Lil Wayne, Rick Ross and, of course, Drake.

"Khaled waited, like, forever and a day. I was taking my sweet time trying to craft this piece of music because I knew he needed a special moment," Drizzy told MTV News at the song's video shoot in Miami. "When I did it, I was like, 'OK, it's gotta be me, Ross and Wayne.' That's the first time anybody has ever heard all three of us on a record."

After leaking the song onto the Internet on May 12, Khaled and company were out shooting the video for "I'm On One" this past weekend — just 15 days later — and that fact isn't lost on Drake. "To be out here shooting a video, it's amazing how things work nowadays," he said. "I used to make music and never think anyone was gonna hear it, now I make music and two weeks later, we're shooting crazy videos in Miami, living the life."

Aside from working with Wayne, who Drake is signed to and frequently shows appreciation for, the Toronto-born rapper spoke on his admiration for his "brother" Rozay. "That's one of my favorite people to rap with in the world," Drizzy said. "That's family the same way YM is family, the same way that OVO is family," he said, name-checking his Young Money and October's Very Own teams. "Ross know what it is, MMG all day, I hold that close to my heart."

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