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5 international rappers who have had their lyrics penned by ghost writers

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top rappers who have used ghost writers
 Kanye West             Photo: allhiphop.com

Drake AND MEEK MILL

Meek Mill started the whole affair with a tweet that read, “Stop comparing Drake to me too.... He don’t write his own raps! That’s why he ain’t tweet my album because we found out!” He went on to tweet, “He ain’t even write that verse on my album and if I woulda knew I woulda took it off my album..... I don’t trick my fans! Lol.” The tweets got considerable parties interested, including Rick Ross and Chris Brown.

These tweets were not received well by Drake and Nicki was said to be mad from Meek’s revelations. The BET Best Female Hip-hop artiste was mad about Meek revealing information about her label mate.

Drake responded on his latest diss song Charged Up, rapping, “I seen it all coming / Knew they were pushing buttons / Easter egg hunting / They gotta look for something / Done doing favours for people /Cause it ain’t like I need the money I make off a feature.”

Meek responded to the lyrics by releasing a 15-second noisy video. The alleged ghost-writer, Quentin Miller, denied the claims.

Dre and Obie Trice

Obie Trice smoked the hornets’ nest prior to his 2008 move to leave Shady Records. The ferocious rapper unwittingly revealed information about the Dr Dre/Eminem partnership that his bosses did not like. Obie, who has a bullet lodged in his head after a shooting incident, explained how Eminem sat Dr Dre down to coach him on how to pen lyrics. Dre was embarrassed by the episode and even though both camps played down the incident, it is rumoured that he left Shady Records due to it.

Obie has no hard feelings though, saying, “Those are still my people over there at Interscope and Shady, that’s family for life,” adding that, “I talk to Em almost every week so we still friends, still business partners and nothing’s really changed.”

Kanye West and Ryhmefest

The egocentric rap artiste was revealed to have hired a whole committee of writers to come up with content for his 2014 album, Yeezus. But ghost-writers started helping out Kanye as early as his first album, The College Dropout. His earliest hit, Jesus Walks, was said to have been penned by Rhymefest.

Rhymefest alluded to the story, but clarified that he only penned parts of the chorus and first verse. It later emerged that Kanye might have bought the entire song from Rhymefest and rerecorded it.

Lil’ Wayne and Gillie Da Kid

Lil’ Wayne is rumoured to have received lyrics from among others, Nicki Minaj, Gillie Da Kid, Drake and Curren$y. Nicki confessed to having penned Weezy’s verse for the song You The Boss, which ended up being used by Rick Ross.

But it was Gillie Da Kid who dropped the bombshell when he revealed in a 2006 interview with HipHopDX that he had done a lot for Wayne’s 2006 successful album, Tha Carter. “I have ghost-written pretty much all (of the 21-song album),” he said.

The revelations sparked one of many beefs that Gillie has had throughout his career.

Nas and Stic

The hip-hop prince’s writing abilities were put to the test after the Dream nonchalantly tweeted that Nas’ Untitled album “was largely written by Stic of Dead Prez and Jay Electronica”. The claims were made credible by a former employee of Hot 97 who even testified to the claim’s veracity.

Jay Electronica, who has collaborated with Nas, came out strongly to deny the rumour, saying Nas “never has and never will need a ghost-writer,” Stic simply said that it was an honour to contribute and collaborate with Nas.

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