Successful, behind the making of Best I Ever Had & Forever~Boi 1da

I chopped it up with Boi 1da, the producer of Drakes, Best I Ever Had, Killa (w/ Nipsey Hussle), Forever (w/ Ye, L'il Wayne, & Eminem), Im Still Fly (w/ Page); to name a few.

We went thru the process of creating hits with Drake. Boi 1da goes in to describe their usual process of Drake recording hooks on his Berry, sending them to 1da, and Boi 1da inturn creates/produces around Drakes hooks.
This was how Best I Ever Had came about for instance. "I was going thru a sample folder and came accross the Hamilton Frank and Joe sample. I flipped that sample and finished the beat in FL," says modest Boi 1da. And the rest they say is history.

The song, Forever was based on a beat that Boi 1da sent to Drake. "I thought the beat was hot, so I sent it to him." And by the way if you don't know, Drake & 1da have been a team for awhile, ie. ATF, Octobersveryown (see the interview with Boi 1da, in Megacity Producers for more info). Back to Forever. If the hook sounds familiar to those in the Dot, it is basically a remix with Em', Ye, & Weezy which is gonna be on the LeBron James, More Than A Game soundtrack.

When I asked 1da what we should be looking out for from him, he said," The (Drake) album, Thank Me Later." Release, slated for...

Original post can be found on the Producers Manual.