Drake Calls Kendrick Lamar ‘Ambitious’, Says Rapper: Not Murdering Me At All, In Any Platform.

With only a few weeks before his album Nothing Was the Same hits shelves, Drake (real name Aubrey Graham) is covering the latest issue of Billboard. Peep a few excerpts.

On creating trendy one lines that catch on in pop culture:

“I’ll be out trying to get a sandwich or something and the guy will say to me, ‘I’d give you a free drink with that, but you know, no new friends’. I swear I’m not sitting around going, ‘What’s the new meme going to be?’ But I do spend a lot of time when I’m writing, especially lately, trying to make something for people to live by. I’m trying to make anthems that are empowering to people, to find phrases that I haven’t heard before. I’m not just going to sit here and be like, ‘F*ckin’ b*tches, getting money!’

On pushing more ballads on his new album and being able to enjoy ‘the moment’ of his current stardom:

There’s a lot less sort of ambient ballad moments on this album where I’m searching or longing for something. That sentiment is gone. Now I’m just kind of like, ‘You know, I’m 26, I don’t know what the fuck else I could be doing better than this. I feel incredible about how I’m able to support my family and friends and how supportive my family and friends have been of me.’ A lot of people get on and it’s like they’re just waiting to get more on,” he continues. “They’re always waiting for a bigger moment to come. But I’ve started to realize that this is it, this is the moment. And it reads, you know? People come up to me now and they’re like, ‘Man, you look good! You look like you’re happy.’

On his thoughts of Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Control’:

I didn’t really have anything to say about it. It just sounded like an ambitious thought to me. That’s all it was. I know good and well that Kendrick’s not murdering me, at all, in any platform. So when that day presents itself, I guess we can revisit the topic.

Click here to read the full interview.