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Kanye

"Drake was the first thing that actually scared me and put pressure on me, because it was the first thing that was blatantly from a similar perspective and lane.

"When I feel pressure, I step my game up.

“So I believe that Drake made great music for people to love and enjoy, but he also forced me to step my game up, because I have to be Kanye West."

http://www.mtv.co.uk/kanye-west/news/drake-put-pressure-on-kanye-west

Weeknd

J. Cole
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Kendrick Lamar

I did a show in Toronto on June 16. My first show in Toronto. I think it was the same night, we was going back to the hotel, and he hit my phone. I guess he had got the word that I was in town. He was there for the night working for the album, and he just said he wanted to meet up. We met up, chilled out, got to vibe, see where each other was at and s***. Sometimes you like a person's music but you definitely don't like the actual artist when you sit down and you talk to them. That's a real good dude. He got a real genuine soul. We clicked immediately. We had spoken probably one time before that.

https://www.complex.com/pigeons-and-planes/2016/07/kendrick-lamar-section-80-five-years/

A$AP Rocky

Q: Has there been any mentorship taking place from Drake on this tour?
A: “It was more like friendship. He doesn’t know that when he’s on, I’m on the side of the stage just watching his performance, like studying. Laugh. And he’s just having fun. He does the same with me.
Like, what he does is like, “Yo, so I’ve got to be in my dressing room, but I’m going to be in the crowd, like all the way in the back, and I’m going to watch you.” I’m like, “Alright, cool.” We just chill.
Before meeting Drake, I was just like a regular average person. So I know what average people say about him. He doesn’t hear it of course because I don’t hear what average people say about me.
People come back to me and say, “Yo, they’re hating,” or “Yo, they’re loving you,” but he doesn’t really know what goes on. So people have bad s*** to say about him but I can guarantee if anybody meets that guy they’re going to love that guy. He’s just really a great guy.”

Q: What’s the biggest thing you’ve learned from him?
A: "Humbleness and sincerity. He has more money than me. He has more b****es than me. He has more fame than me. And he’s more humble than I am."

Q: That’s a good quality.
A: "It’s the best quality. I feel like more people need to be like that. I would prefer to be modest than belligerent or arrogant. And he’s one of them niggas where—no homo—he can let his nuts hang. He could show his ass off, no homo.

We threw a party the other day. The whole time, Drake is in this corner just chilling. He’s talking to his homeboy, not even f***ing with the b****es. B****es are staring at him the whole time. They’re looking at me, staring at him.

When they look at me, I’m like, “Hey, get over here.” They look at him, he don’t even see them and s***. He’s just one of those cats, where it’s like—he knows. It’s on.. I’ve got mad love for Drake. That’s my brody right there. Shout out to Chubbs. That’s his boy. That’s his Yams."

Snoop Dogg
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Stormzy
1:24:20

Andre 3000

”Now I talk to Drake, and I know he had to be like 10 when he was listening to what we were doing. You just never know who’s listening until you hear a connection. I didn’t even know Drake dug my music, I just liked him as a rapper because I felt he had a balance. I didn’t even know that he grew up listening to me. But it’s cool to know that it’s a real lineage thing. I’m happy to see Kanye and Wayne and Drake and all these new artists. They inspire me in a way because they reach back and they say, “Hey, we want to get you on these songs.”
https://theurbandaily.com/1812345/andre-3000-is-inspired-by-drake/

Nas

"Drake is, man, what can he not do? He can sing, he can rap, and he talks about real s--t. What’s better than that, man? I love it.”

"I'm listening to] Drake and always Scarface," Nas revealed in an interview. "Drake is new. He's here to show anybody who questions him that he'll get at you. He's like fresh water right now on dry land. Scarface is the realist rapper. He's the most musically serious"

http://www.rapbasement.com/nas/063009-rapper-nas-talks-about-listening-to-drake-scarface-and-looking-forward-to-dr-dres-new-album.html

Talib Kweli

"He is a shining example for mainstream artists – he is a really good rapper, singer and he can write, he is like a triple threat.”

Frank Ocean

"Drake reached out to me when the record came out and paid me a compliment about the sound of it. I respect Drake not only as a creative person, but as a business mind as well. I think Drake’s important. The moral of the story is Drake’s ill, and I’m ill.
https://www.complex.com/music/2011/03/who-is-frank-ocean/drake

Jay Electronica

JAY Z

Kid CuDI

People love to point out similarities between you and Drake—do you view him as competition?

Kid Cudi: I think it’s just that Drake and me are the most creative out of the new up-and-coming MCs. Me and Drake are here not because of anything other than two niggas that have their own flavor. I’m doing my s***, nobody else can do my s***. Nobody else can do Wale’s s*** or Charles Hamilton’s s***. It’s like a bunch of Kool-Aid stands. It just matters whose flavor you like the most.

It seems like a lay-up for you and Drake to work together.

Kid Cudi: We’ll come together eventually, but I’m not trying to force this because there’s hype around us both. I want to work with Drake, yeah, but right now I don’t want to work with anyone who’s in the same creative realm as me. I’m still creating my own s***.

Has he reached out to work with you?

Kid Cudi: Drake had been wanting to do an official “Day ’N’ Nite” remix early on. He was one of my earliest supporters; that’s why I f*** with Drake on another level than just being a new artist.

ZAYN

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Wale on where Drake ranks on his all time list

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https://www.rap-up.com/2010/03/04/sean-garrett-raises-the-bar-for-drake/

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Gibbs a huge Drake fan @deezysan

"I think Drake is probably the best songwriter of our time right now. He’s one of the best rappers too."

http://www.self-titledmag.com/2014/04/11/interview-freddie-gibbs-on-getting-compared-to-tupac-working-with-madlib-and-the-joys-of-backyard-barbecuing/

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