PUBLISHED BY BANDINI | OCTOBER 28, 2017
Since Meek Mill outed Drake’s involvement of emerging Atlanta, Georgia-based rapper Quentin Miller on collaboration “R.I.C.O.” and some If You’re Reading This Now It’s Too Late songs (and leaked reference tracks), nothing was the same. Kendrick Lamar has used it to assert his place at the top, and seemingly discredit anybody who can’t say the same.
In this week’s TBD, host Justin “The Company Man” Hunte looks at ghostwriters (a bit of a contradictory term in of itself) in Hip-Hop. There are presumably albums in any Heads’ stack of CDs, albums, or downloads that are held in high regard, that used writers, and there’s more to it than meets the eye or the liner notes.
Dr. Dre’s The Chronic and 2001 are two arguably classic albums that list writers right in the credits. Since his days in N.W.A. picking the brains of Ice Cube, MC Ren and The D.O.C. for bars, the doctor has consulted for referral lyrics from JAY-Z, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, and Kendrick Lamar. It’s in the credits and publishing. That’s not ghost—anything. Also, Dre has proven that he can pen a mean verse for other rappers, according to one of his longest collaborators, Ren. Meanwhile, King T stated that Ice Cube—a man who penned many classic verses for N.W.A., swapped verses with his cousin Del The Funky Homosapien at a time when he was at the top.
Read more at http://ambrosiaforheads.com/2017/10/hip-hop-ghostwriters-good-thing...
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