Drake’s Alleged Ghostwriter: Meek Mill Says ‘Quentin Miller’ — Plus, Confession From Famous Industry Writer

Drake has been under fire on Twitter. Rapper Meek Mill claims that Drizzy doesn’t write his own lyrics. Moreover, he name dropped one of Aubrey’s key writers, Quentin Miller.

Drake’s fan base has been awaiting Views from the 6, his latest album to drop. However, in the meantime, Drizzy has been featured on several other artists’ songs. Three of the most recent are:

• “Where Ya At” with Future
• “100” with The Game
• “R.I.C.O.” with Meek Mill

While these selections have fed Drake fans a nice appetizer during the anticipated album release, a fellow collaborating-artist recently tried to curve Drizzy. On July 21, 2015, Meek Mill took to Twitter and aired some of Aubrey’s “dirty laundry.” He told Twitterverse — and whomever else was reading — not to compare him to Drake. Though the tweets could have stopped there, he continued into what seemed to be a long-awaited rant.

Stop comparing drake to me too…. He don’t write his own raps! That’s why he ain’t tweet my album because we found out! ?

— Meek Mill (@MeekMill) July 22, 2015

He ain’t even write that verse on my album and if I woulda knew I woulda took it off my album….. I don’t trick my fans! Lol

— Meek Mill (@MeekMill) July 22, 2015

In a previous Inquisitr article, it mentions the following about Mill.

“Meek claims that the whole rap world knows that Drake doesn’t write his own material, but that they refuse to speak up.”

However, though Meek makes those claims, Drake’s writers are credited openly. According to a few tweets from OG Maco, he points out that Drake’s most-recent mixtape even had credits from Quentin Miller — who appears to be one of many — perfectly legible.

Complex reports, while as part of a group called WDNG Crshrs, Quentin Miller is an Atlanta-based rapper. Along with many of the songs from If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late, Quentin had a part in writing Drake’s verse on “R.I.C.O.”

However, what exactly constitutes “writer’s share”? And why is it culturally acceptable for all other genres to have outside songwriters and contributors, except the rap and hip hop genres?

One contributor, Shi Wisdom — who’s a known writer and ghostwriter for several artists, including Drake — shared her opinion in a past interview with Noisey.

“There’s a lot of ghostwriters out there, and there’s a lot of people who are not ghostwriters. You don’t see them, you don’t hear them, they don’t exist to the audience because, like I said, there’s this illusion that all these artists write their own stuff. There is a whole machine behind everybody. All these artists have several people keeping them there.”

She goes on to mention that a “writer’s share” doesn’t take much. And it could even be pure suggestion on a certain part.

“Everybody has writers, everybody has a team of people to put it together. Some of these people do write some of their songs, but do you really believe that Nicki Minaj writes all of her songs, with no help? To be a songwriter on a song all you have to do is contribute one word.

By the time the ‘R.I.P.’ record I did with Drake was finished, six writers including myself and him touched that song. That wasn’t the plan, but that’s what happens: Somebody comes in and says, ‘instead of saying ‘boy’ say ‘you’.’ Now they’re a writer on the song, but that’s access.”

From the inside, she gave her opinion about the allegations of Drake hiring writers.

“To be honest with you, who cares if he doesn’t write his own stuff? It’s very evident that he’s an intelligent business person. Who in this industry writes their stuff all the time? I don’t know anybody who writes their stuff all the time that is a big artist, not one person. When you go into these meetings with these labels they tell you who is looking for songs, and it’s a bunch of people who you thought wrote their own songs.”

So, when a person sees credits from other songwriters on his or her favorite songs of other genres, those are okay. However, when it’s rap, it’s not? How does that work?

Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments, below.

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