The success Bling Hotline Drake’s 2015 album was an inevitable phenomenon. This Tuesday (06), Drake gave fans a behind-the-scenes look, releasing 100GB of never-before-seen content, including clips of him in the studio explaining how the diamond-certified hit came to be.
Drake revealed that the inspiration behind Bling Hotline It came from a woman he was seeing. He saved her name in his phone as Bling Hotline why did he keep getting calls and messages while they were together. “We were sleeping together… and his phone would ring. So I saved his name in my phone as ‘Hotline Bling.’ That was his name in my phone the whole time,” Drake explained.
He said he warned the woman on the track: “I was talking to her today. I was like, ‘Hey, your name, your nickname is a good title for something.’ And then today I told her I thought, you know, I made a song called ‘Hotline Bling,’ that’s crazy.”
Drake initially found it inviting Future to join him Bling Hotlinebut I decided to do it myself. “It’s melody, but it’s an atmosphere,” he has declared. “When I was writing it, I wrote it like a Shy Glizzy song. That’s why I was asking if we should put Future on this shit.” However, Drake and Future collaborated a few months later on the joint project What a time to be alive.
Made by Nineteen85, Bling Hotline was released in July 2015. The vibrant music video and signature dance of Drake spawned a series of viral memes and parodies on social media. Although the anthem never reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100, it did peak at No. 2 on the chart.
Drake’s Career
Aubrey Drake Graham, known as Drakeis a Canadian rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, actor and businessman born in Toronto on October 24, 1986. He gained initial recognition as an actor in the series Degrassi: The Next Generation. Drake founded the record label OVO Sound and is a big fan of the Toronto Raptors.
After releasing three hits between 2006 and 2009, Drake It was discovered by LilWayne and released his first EP, Gone so farin 2009, containing the hit Best I’ve ever had. In 2010 he released his first studio album, Thank me laterfollowed by Take care of yourself in 2011, which won a Grammy for “Best Rap Album”.
His third album, Nothing was the sameIt came out in 2013, and the fourth mixtape, If you’re reading this it’s too latein 2015. In 2016 he released the album Viewsincluding singles like Bling Hotline AND A dance. In 2017 it was launched More life and in 2018, the EP Scary Hourswith the track God’s Planwhich also appears on their fifth album, Scorpiopublished in June 2018.
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