Drake has had what appears to be yet another reference track hit the web, this time featuring his OVO signee, PARTYNEXTDOOR, on a Scorpion cut.
Just after a track that seemed to be Vory’s reference for “Mob Ties” leaked online on Tuesday (May 28), one for the PND-penned “Ratchet Happy Birthday” also became available.
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The song lives on Drizzy’s 2018 Scorpion album, and much like the aforementioned apparent Vory reference, the origin of the leak is not yet known.
Listen to both versions of the track below.
DRAKE – “Ratchet Happy Birthday”
reference track leak!!PARTYNEXTDOOR – Ratchet Happy Birthday pic.twitter.com/C9doG6eZCu
— Pusha Thanos !!! (new acc) (@PushaThanos__) May 28, 2024
Vory is not the first artist to be accused of giving Drake a helping hand in the studio.
Lil Yachty was recently claimed to have written “Jumbotron Shit Poppin” — from the 6 God’s joint album with 21 Savage, Her Loss — after an alleged reference track surfaced online.
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Rick Ross, who had dissed Drake both on songs and social media, used the rumors as more ammo against his former collaborator.
“Yacht Put ya phone on silent lil bro.. [100 emoji] #BBLDRIZZY CALLING AGAIN [nose emoji, hand emoji, laughing emoji],” he wrote online, referencing his previous claims that Drizzy had undergone plastic surgery.
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He added: “YACHT AKA THE PEN [five writing emojis].”
Rozay also claimed that Drake had somebody else write his verse on Travis Scott‘s smash hit “Sicko Mode.”
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While filming himself in a club as the song blared through the speakers, the MMG mogul said: “Who wrote this? Guess who wrote this? You would never guess who wrote this,” before bursting into laughter.
Ghostwriting allegations have dogged Drake since the release of 2015’s If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late, which featured multiple songwriting credits for Quentin Miller.
Though Miller has always denied working as a ghostwriter for the Canadian superstar, he has said he was never paid for his work on the project due to a publishing deal he had with Tricky Stewart at the time.
“I’m working with a n-gga that literally is about to change my life, even though I was in my horrible, horrible, horrible publishing situation with Tricky so I never got a publishing check off of any Drake songs,” he told Vlad TV last year.
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“I never got a single publishing check off any songs. I had to feed my family off getting paid under the table in that situation, because Tricky and them wouldn’t let me go. I didn’t get out that deal ’til 2019, 2020; I signed [it in] 2011. I had to let go of a lot of shit just to get out.”
