Why Too $hort and E-40 couldn’t collaborate with Drake

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E-40 and Too $hort are legends within the Bay Space and have been heavy hitters for the reason that Nineteen Nineties. That mentioned, they learn about methods to make hits. Nonetheless, when the chance to work with Drake got here alongside, Too $hort simply couldn’t get a tune over the road.

Throughout an interview, the 2 Bay artists highlighted their love for Drake, and E-40 spoke about how, as a result of they’re from totally different generations, it’s tougher for them to safe collaborations with individuals like Drizzy.

Talking about how he actually wished to do a tune with the ‘God’s Plan’ star, Too $hort revealed, “I was really focused on being on that Drake vibe, and I was just about to do a song with Drake. I feel like it might have happened, and then he got the 13 Billboard Awards, and nobody answered the phone anymore. I was like, ‘Fuck.’ I ain’t call too many times. I just fell back, like, damn. I missed the window.” Nonetheless, E-40 asserted that if Drizzy had been round within the 2000s when Too $hort launched his most renowned track, ‘Blow The Whistle,’ the Oakland lyricist would have been in a position to land a observe with Drake. 

Stating this, E-40 defined, “You know what it is? $hort, let me tell you something. If Drake was out when ‘Blow the Whistle’ first came out going crazy or ‘Tell Me When to Go,’ he would have been on the records.”

E-40 continued, insisting that if that they had a relationship with Drake within the 2000s once they have been mainstream MCs, he would have positively joined forces with them as a result of Drake solely jumps on profitable tracks, stating, “We had a relationship with him. We was cool. We would have been like, we send this over, he would have got on it right away because he gets on hot shit. He get on n*gga’s shit that’s hot.”

He added, “You know what I’m saying? We catch one, I’m sure he’d get on that. Drake, roll with me. I fuck with Drake.” Drake has truly shown a lot of love to the Bay Area over time. He appeared on DJ Khaled’s observe ‘For Free’, which sampled Too Brief’s 2006 hit ‘Blow the Whistle’.

Moreover, E-40 made a cameo look within the music video for ‘The Motto’ again in 2012. Too $hort insisted that he needs to get within the studio with Drake’s producers, Noah ‘40’ Shebib and Boi-1da, as a result of he believes they make nice music. Explaining how he likes the individuals behind the beats, Too $hort concluded, “It ain’t just that it’s Drake, though. I like the music that comes from him and his producers. They make like some good ass music, man. I’m like, I wouldn’t just mind being part of one of them damn songs at some point.”

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