Drake Hints That There's More To Come From Nothing Was The Same

'I have four or five records that just didn't make [the album] because I was trying to keep it concise,' the Toronto rapper reveals.

elody and impressive wordplay skills are a major part of his recipe for success, but his passion for quantity over quality in the overcrowded rap marketplace is also a big slice of the pie.

The Toronto rapper sat down for an in-depth interview on "Q with Jian Ghomenshi" on Canada's CBC Radio and explained his unique approach to creating music, which already has him on the road to scoring his third platinum album with Nothing Was the Same.

While most rappers will proudly tell you that their album process consists of recording an overwhelming number of tracks, only to slowly whittle them down, Drake takes the opposite approach.

"I'm not a guy that does 40 songs for a project and picks 13 of them. If I'm gonna go as far as to track over a beat, I usually have the utmost faith in it that it'll end up somewhere," he explained. "I don't really dispose of too many songs. I have stuff that didn't make this album definitely, but I don't have 20 or 30 of them — I have four or five records that just didn't make it because I was trying to keep it concise and whatever I end up doing with those, I'll do with them."

Drizzy added that while some hits, such as "Hold On, We're Going Home" were knocked out in about two hours, other tracks remain in progress for as long as it takes for him to find true inspiration.

"Sometimes I'm working and sometimes I'm just waiting. I write about my life, I don't write stories. A lot of classic rap is storytelling, but it's storytelling about someone else, fictional stories sometime. I can't do that; I have to write about my life," he explained. "Sometimes, in order to complete a verse the way I want to, or to finish a second verse on a song when I already done the first one, I have to allow myself to either live a portion of life that I haven't lived yet or something has to set in when it does take a week, two weeks, three weeks."

A significant amount of that storytelling revolves around encounters in his love life, and for the record he's sick of that being misconstrued in a negative light.

"I'm so sick of people saying that I'm like lonely and emotional or associated me for like longing for a women," he revealed. "I hate that, it bothers me so much because I do make music that makes you feel something but I'm actually not that guy in real life, I'm really happy."

And do any of the women who are subjects of those songs feel a certain type of way about it? "I'm very careful with that," he said, in response to a question about giving away too much information.

"I never want it to feel 'exposed' because I don't do it with malicious intent and 'exposed' feels malicious to me. There's no malice involved. It's stories that I feel the need to tell for my own soul and for other people to sort of, again, draw parallels with me."

"As far as the people go, I always double-check. I always try to send the song and be like 'Yo, I just want to make sure that this isn't too much.' And then sometimes like on this record, it's not too much until it's out, which is tough for people. It gets bigger than any of us can imagine sometimes and that's what happened."