Quentin Miller has revealed Nas as soon as praised his expertise as a rapper, however claims that their relationship has soured within the wake of King’s Disease III.
In a current interview, Miller instructed Vlad TV that resulting from followers’ assumption that he was a ghostwriter on Nas and Hit-Boy‘s newest venture, he feels that he might not get a possibility to work with the Queensbridge rapper once more.
The dialog was sparked by a dialogue in regards to the position Quentin Miller performed within the beef between Meek Mill and Drake, which DJ Drama addressed over the summer season. Nas’ title got here up as Miller spoke to the way in which his profession has been impacted by the stigma of ghostwriting in Hip Hop.
“You understand how unfortunate that feels to be…,” he began earlier than trailing off. “Even with the Nas situation. I respect Nas and love Nas like any other rapper in this world. To get an opportunity to work with him and he’s telling me, ‘Yo man, you’re one of the dopest new rappers I’ve heard.’ I’m taking this in. This is a great thing.”
Sadly, Quentin Miller defined, the tables have a tendency to show as soon as his work with an artist is publicized.
“You get the opportunity to work with somebody and then, people find out,” he added. “Then, they tear him down ’cause he worked with you. Rather than, ‘Look at you… damn, you must be dope.’ That’s what you expect. But it don’t turn out that way. It turn out they get burnt up so then, they’re looking at you crazy and then, they want nothing to do with you at all.”
Shortly after the discharge of KDIII, Miller cleared the air after feedback he had made about writing for Nas went viral for all of the mistaken causes. The rapper/songwriter appeared on the New Rory & MAL podcast in September, the place he spoke about lending his pen to the legendary MC, amongst different outstanding Hip Hop and R&B artists.
Miller’s feedback flew below the radar till a clip of his interview circulated on Twitter in late November, sparking loads of dialogue amongst rap heads about long-running rumors of Nas utilizing ghostwriters.
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After catching wind of the chatter, Quentin Miller — who’s credited as a co-writer on Nas’ King’s Disease II monitor “The Pressure” — jumped on Instagram on November 29 to set the document straight. In an impassioned video, the Atlanta native defined how Hit-Boy, with whom he’s labored carefully with for years, related him with Nas and he merely threw out “some ideas” within the studio, and some of them caught.
“I pulled up on Hit-Boy, I’m in the room, I bounce some ideas out, there we go,” he mentioned. “Clear it up. I just bounced some ideas, a couple ideas win. That’s it, that’s all that happened with the Nas shit.”
Miller additionally defended his resolution to talk publicly in regards to the artists he’s labored with, stating that it’s frequent follow for songwriters.
“I also mentioned other artists that I worked with! From G-Eazy to Jeremih to Ty Dolla $ign — I mentioned other artists!” he added. “Writers post their work and talk about their work all the time. You know why? It helps with the business of writing. When people know that you were a part of certain things, it makes people more prone to work with you. It’s kind of part of the job.”
During his dialog with DJ Vlad, Quentin Miller reiterated that, when he speaks in regards to the work he’s executed with artists, it’s by no means executed with malicious intent.
“I’m not trying to take the light or the glory from any of these artists that I’m working with,” he concluded. “I’m happy as fuck that they value my ideas. It blows my mind that they value my ideas. ‘Cause I look up to these guys like everybody else. It just ruins it.”
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