Quentin Miller, the Atlanta artist and songwriter identified for being outed as Drake’s ghostwriter in 2015, is now claiming he was by no means formally paid for working with Drizzy because of a foul 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’re Reading This It’s Too Late mixtape. At one level, Miller revealed he has by no means obtained a single publishing test for co-writing a number of songs on the undertaking.
“I never got a publishing check off any Drake songs,” Miller advised Vlad. “I had to feed my family off getting paid under the table in that situation. [Music exec] Tricky [Stewart] and them wouldn’t let me [out of my deal]. I didn’t get out of that deal until 2019, 2020. I signed in 2011. I had to let go of a lot of shit just to get out. Even when I was in it, I never got a publishing check or nothing. I was just grinding it out. Just hoping that one song, working with that one artist, is gon’ change something. That was the Drake thing and it just didn’t change anything.”
In one other section of the interview that aired on Wednesday (Jan. 4), Miller claimed he obtained a $30,000 advance for his publishing deal, however by no means obtained any cash on the again finish for writing credit on six Drake songs.
“By the time it all blew up, I hadn’t worked out whatever situation could have been worked out to where my life would have been changed,” Miller continued. “By the time it all blew up and Drake wasn’t fucking with me no more and [DJ] Drama wasn’t fucking with me no more, I still was in that publishing deal.”
“That was one of the most my hurtful situations in my music business scenario ’cause they look like me,” he added. “I put my trust in them. I just don’t understand why you wouldn’t teach me the game.”
XXL has reached out to Tricky Stewart for remark.
Quentin Miller was a largely 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 monitor from Miller of the IYRTITL monitor “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 need, sometimes, individuals to spark an idea so that I can take off running. I don’t mind that. And those recordings—they are what they are. And you can use your own judgment on what they mean 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 together 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 road mixed with the backlash ruined his good reminiscences of engaged on If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late.
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