Drake Signs To Cash Money/Universal
June 29th, 2009
Via Nahright
Well, the wait is over: After weeks of speculation, Drake has chosen to go with the home team and sign with Lil Wayne’s Young Money Records, according to a source close to the situation. The deal breaks down as a joint venture between Young Money and Cash Money, with Universal Republic distributing. Drake’s management was adamant that he should be viewed as an independent artist, although Universal will distribute the project.
“Today is a definitely a comfortable day for me, having my team now that’s been in place for a couple of years. It’s just a great day,” Drake said. “It’s something new, but it feels familiar.”
Drizzy is excited about having a corporate push to help with the momentum he’s gained independently.
“Independent is a funny term,” he told MTV News on the set of his video for “Best I Ever Had.” “I can go independent, but you need distribution, period. You need somebody to distribute your record and you need that army that a label has to really push the record.”
So.. Drake drops another classic mixatpe [So Far Gone]. My hypeman aka Sir Lancelot also happens to DJ, and is real nice on the edits, and often saves me a lot of headache/time by making me custom edits (whether its hip hop, rock, r&b, house, electro, country, etc - he’ll smash it). He edited Drake’s entire So Far Gone tape - clean and dirty so you radio DJ’s can run joints you never did before. Don’t say we don’t hold you down - it’s all about the DJs!! Lancelot whatup - you killed this one man!
