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James Blake Talks Working with Beyoncé and Saying No to Drake in New Interview

The audio interview was shared today via Spotify's new Secret Genius show.
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Today English musician, James Blake, shared an audio interview on Spotify's new Secret Genius show, where he talks about working on Beyoncé's Lemonade, his conversation with Drake's camp about his 2014 single "0 to 100/The Catchup", and more.

In the interview Blake says that upon entering the studio to record his collaboration with Knowles, he rejected the lyrics the engineer had ready for him: "I've never sung anybody else's lyrics, so I just assumed that's not I was going to be doing," he says. "So I got my phone out and sang some of my own lyrics that were about something else and about somebody else. But it fit somehow into the song and it fit into the album, and I'm just honored that they used it." Blake also said that after the experience he has "an appetite to work with her more."

Later, he discusses a scenario where he asked Drake's team to pull a sample of his work from the original, unofficially released version of "0 to 100/The Catchup." Explaining his decision, he said that it was "a matter of principle," and that he had "only sent it as a collaborative idea, not to be sampled on a record." Check out the interview in the embed below.

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