Quentin Miller, the Atlanta artist and songwriter recognized for being outed as Drake’s ghostwriter in 2015, is now claiming he was by no means formally paid for working with Drizzy on account of a nasty publishing deal.
On Tuesday (Jan. 3), VladTV aired a portion of their interview with Miller, the place he talked overtly about working with Drizzy on his If You are Studying This It is Too Late mixtape. At one level, Miller revealed he has by no means acquired a single publishing examine for co-writing a number of songs on the challenge.
“I by no means acquired a publishing examine off any Drake songs,” Miller advised Vlad. “I needed to feed my household off getting paid beneath the desk in that state of affairs. [Music exec] Difficult [Stewart] and them would not let me [out of my deal]. I did not get out of that deal till 2019, 2020. I signed in 2011. I needed to let go of plenty of shit simply to get out. Even after I was in it, I by no means acquired a publishing examine or nothing. I used to be simply grinding it out. Simply hoping that one tune, working with that one artist, is gon’ change one thing. That was the Drake factor and it simply did not change something.”
In one other section of the interview that aired on Wednesday (Jan. 4), Miller claimed he acquired a $30,000 advance for his publishing deal, however by no means acquired any cash on the again finish for writing credit on six Drake songs.
“By the point all of it blew up, I hadn’t labored out no matter state of affairs may have been labored out to the place my life would have been modified,” Miller continued. “By the point all of it blew up and Drake wasn’t fucking with me no extra and [DJ] Drama wasn’t fucking with me no extra, I nonetheless was in that publishing deal.”
“That was some of the my hurtful conditions in my music enterprise state of affairs ’trigger they seem like me,” he added. “I put my belief in them. I simply do not perceive why you would not train me the sport.”
XXL has reached out to Difficult Stewart for remark.
Quentin Miller was a principally unknown title to the general public till he was outed as Drake’s pen in the summertime of 2015 when Meek Mill sparked a beef with Drake. Funkmaster Flex later leaked a reference observe from Miller of the IYRTITL observe “10 Bands.” Miller initially responded to the information by denying he was the Canadian rap star’s penman.
Drake later addressed the allegations saying “I would like, generally, people to spark an concept in order that I can take off working. I don’t thoughts that. And people recordings—they’re what they’re. And you should use your personal judgment on what they imply to you.”
The state of affairs additionally led to points with Meek Mill, with Miller claiming Meek and his crew beat him up in March of 2016. Miller continued along with his solo profession, saying he would by no means work with Drake once more in 2018. In 2020, Miller admitted Meek placing him on entrance avenue mixed with the backlash ruined his good reminiscences of engaged on If You are Studying This It is Too Late.
