“I never could’ve told you a week before that ‘God’s Plan’ was my single and it was gonna be the biggest song of my career,” he said. I only love my bed and my mama, I’m sorryĭrake credits a higher power with taking him to the next level.

“I was just like, ‘Yo, I have to do a second verse. “We were rushing, rushing, rushing to try to turn it around in the next two days,” he continued. “We had to rush and turn around because I was worried that another artist was gonna get the version and just start laying random verses on it-which back in the day was a huge hustle for people, getting one-verse idea leaks and then a random artist… would just be like, ‘Yeah, this is me and Drake’s new shit.’” “Then it leaked, and people forced my hand because they were like, ‘Yo, that shit sounds hard,’” Drake recalled. I was sitting back taking my time on it because it was like, if I get on this shit I really gotta snap.”īut the track ended reaching the public ahead of schedule. “It’s no excuse, I could have did the song whenever I pleased to do it,” he said. They shouldn’t punish him for that, though.”Įarlier this year, the “Love Scars/You Hurt Me” artist talked to Complex about how he lost out on the massive hit. I was like, ‘Yo, maybe this could work for your album.’ He was obviously caught up, busy, doing his thing. “I only had the first verse and the hook. “‘God’s Plan’ was a song that I recorded on a whim in my condo and thought nothing of it,” he said.

The Canadian rapper originally sent the demo to his Ohio counterpart.

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