Good friends are sometimes just a phone call away. Ask Drake and Jay-Z, who have both appeared as surprise guests at each other’s New York concerts in the past month.
In a recent interview with Vibe, not only does Drake open up about his relationship with the hip-hop heavyweight, but he also speaks about how difficult it was to exclude rap on his forthcoming R&B mixtape, It’s Never Enough. 
Drake knows a thing or two about having a loyal fanbase: His following propelled him to a #1 album in June with Thank Me Later. But when it comes to the SoundScan charts, 2010 has belonged to Marshall Mathers. Eminem’s Recovery is #1 for the fifth straight week and looks to be an unbeatable monster right now — he’s close to 2 million copies sold. Drake expects his good friend Lil Wayne to have that same success when he’s released from prison and resumes his career. Much like Eminem and Jay-Z, Drizzy asserts, Weezy has a core that has unconditional love for him.
Check out pictures of Drake at Jay-Z’s Official Madison Square Garden Concert After Party last night.
Jay-Z & LeBron James hosted their 4th Annual Two Kings Dinner & After Party (Presented by Bing) at the W Hotel in Dallas, Texas for All-Star Weekend. Guests included Diddy, Russell Simmons, Gayle King, Teyana Taylor, Chris Paul and Drake with music by DJ Steph Floss & DJ Clark Kent.
When it comes to his rhymes, Drake is an unabashed writer. But when the crooner side of the Toronto artist kicks in, he says he’s actually more like Jay-Z than a traditional songwriter.
“The way Jay and Wayne write rap, I write R&B. I don’t write lyrics down on paper,” Drake told Complex magazine in its February/March issue, which features the So Far Gone star on the cover. “The other day, I was in the studio with Alicia Keys, and I wrote two songs just speaking to her. I wish I could write that way for rap. With my rap songs, there’s so much of me I have to give that I don’t know if I could ever just flow. The thing is, I’m a great rapper. There’s two elements to rap: having the thoughts, and then being a great rapper. I can really rap the sh– that I write. My tone, my inflection.
