When ILOVEMAKONNEN dropped his single for “Tuesday” with Drake in 2014, Makonnen, along with everyone else in the music industry, thought his success was due immediately. Although he just dropped his ILOVEMAKONNEN 2 EP recently, the Atlanta native went on to talk about his frustration of not having control of music releases. Peep the excerpt below.
What’s your relationship with OVO like?
It’s cool, they put out my music and stuff and we just keep it moving. Let them tell you their relationship with Makonnen. I’m just an artist, being an artist, and there’s only so much that I can do.
Do you still talk to Drake?
Here and there. By the time this comes out, I’ll probably see him six more times or no more times. I don’t know. I just wish everybody well in all that they do and I just go on and live my life and try to uplift motherfuckers. At the end of the day I’m tired of uplifting people. I just gotta uplift myself now because everything else is a waste of time.
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