Fresh Flicks: Drake Releases Album Covers For “Nothing Was The Same”

 

Drake released the covers for his standard and deluxe versions of his album “Nothing Was The Same” due out Sept 24th. The covers were designed by Kadir Nelson…what do you think?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fresh Looks: Drake Dishes To GQ About His Love Life, New Album, & Chris Brown + Announces New Tour With Miguel & Future

With all the drama surrounded by rapper Drake’s name, he will be featured on GQ July cover ONCE AGAIN titled  “How To Drake It In America.”

In the issue, Drake also reveals that he’s tired of being connected to Chris Brown in a negative way and would love to have a sit down man-to-man conversation with him but doubts it would ever happen.  He even touches on being criticized by other rappers, making the hit single “Started From The Bottom,” and his forthcoming album Nothing Was the Same.

Read the highlights below:

On finding true love:

“[Will Smith said] It’s not about wanting anymore, you need that person. Hearing that, I don’t know if I’ve ever felt that way…I’ve made a lot of music about love being the only thing I’m missing. I think this is the first album I’ve made saying, ‘I’m okay, I’m enjoying it right now.’ Maybe this is my time to grind it out, make a run for it, and add some memories with my boys.”

On focusing on the music and not the women:

“You know the way fighters don’t f*** before the fight? Sometimes I feel like I’m so focused on training my body and getting my mind right to create this album that sex isn’t one of my main priorities. If someone is around that I know and trust, I’m down. But I’m not going to end up with some stranger at this party.”

On the drama with Chris Brown:

“I hear he has everything he could want now. I don’t want my name to be synonymous with that guy’s name. I really don’t. I wish we could sit down just like you and me are right now, and talk it out man-to-man. But that’s not going to happen. I’m not confrontational, but if someone challenges, I’m not going to back down. If I think about it too much, I feel it wrapping around my foot, like I get a feeling it could end really badly…Like, it gets really dark.”

On being criticized by other rappers:

“You notice they don’t criticize the music itself, though…I’m okay with that.”

On making “Started From The Bottom”

“I think a lot of people wish their favorite rapper wrote it—as if a song like that should be gangster—but I was the one who wrote it, and everyone has their bottom. As for my whole story, I wouldn’t change a thing. I’ve told bits and pieces of it—and I’ll tell more. Maybe because I had friends who grew up in the hood, I could have acted like I had, too, and perpetrated a different lifestyle, and it would be eating away at me because it wouldn’t be the truth. I’m actually here in front of you living the truth. I wake up in the morning and my heart is light, man. It’s not heavy. I don’t have skeletons in the closet on their way out. This is my real age, my real name, my real past, and I’m good with that.”

On his new album Nothing Was the Same:

“This is my f****** moment to say if I wanted to rap all the time, really rap, I would, but I also love to make music. I’ll do this for you right now. But it’s for me, too. It’s my story…I’m trying to get back to that kid in the basement. To say what he has to say. And I’m trying to make it last.”

You can read the entire interview over at GQ

Fresh Cover: Shanell (@Shanell_SnL) Covers “Don’t Walk Away” By Jade

YMCMB vocalist Shanell kills this cover of the 1990’s hit song “Don’t Walk Away” by Jade. It is not secret that Shanell possesses a crazy musical talent, but here she stays true to the the original and adds her own vocal twists to make it her own. We are definitely checking for Shanell as she starts her new series “Throwback Music Thursdays” #ShanellTBMT. Get into it below. We also included her cover of Teedra Moses’ “Be Your Girl” and Adina Howard’s “T-shirt and Panties.”

“Be Your Girl”

“T-shirt and Panties”