Drake may be one of the most successful artists of all time, but listening to music doesn’t play a big role in his daily life — according to Lil Yachty.
The Atlanta rapper/producer, who has become one of Drizzy’s closest collaborators in recent years, revealed the surprising tidbit in an interview with James Blake for Complex.
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“He rarely listens to music, except for when he’s recording,” he said. “Just, like, in his daily life. Like, I wake up — music. Driving — music. Shower — music. Eating — music.
“He’s more like a talking type of person. Music when it’s time to record. Sometimes he plays music in the car but most times he’ll ride in silence. Before we got close, I thought all musicians were like me and music was all everyday, everything.”
This revelation lines up with previous insight that Lil Yachty has shared about Drake.
Last year, during a separate interview with Complex, he spoke about how he and the 6 God differ in terms of their approaches to music and life.
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“Me and him are kind of different when it comes to lifestyle,” Yachty said. “Like, we’re really similar as people, but as far as life, we’re very different. I don’t go out, he loves to go out. He loves to host people, he loves to party and I don’t like people that much.”
He continued: “And I record every day all day, where he kind of is very selective on his recording days as he has more of a life than I do. And he is much more into actually living life as to where I am literally trying to record music every day.
“I don’t know if I get that from him of like, ‘Oh, I should go live a life too,’ because I enjoy not living life, I enjoy making music. This is my fun. I hate going out. So if anything, I just realized that you can be so similar to somebody yet so different at the same time.”
Before that, the 26-year-old shed more light on Drake’s creative process and explained why it’s been a minute since the he’s made a sweet, heartfelt track like “Hold On We’re Going Home” or “Take Care.”
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“I asked him a while ago, I said something like, ‘Man, why don’t you make songs like you used to?’” he recalled on his A Safe Place podcast. “I was like, ‘Why don’t you make love songs, like those songs that makes people miss they ex and shit?’
“I think he explained to me how it’s hard for him to make music about things he isn’t dealing with or experiencing, which opened an eye for me because me on the other hand, as a songwriter, I can just go make some shit up.”
