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Best I Ever Had
"Best I Ever Had" is a song by the Canadian rapper Drake from his third mixtape So Far Gone. The song was later re-released on his debut EP of the same name. The song's popularity helped Drake decide to release So Far Gone as an EP, available for purchase. "Best I Ever Had" is also included as a bonus track on Drake's debut studio album Thank Me Later in certain countries. The song samples "Fallin' in Love" by Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds and "Do It for the Boy" by Lil Wayne, and was produced by Boi-1da.
It was released as the first single from the tape as a digital download on February 11, 2009, and later as the third single from the EP in the United Kingdom on October 11, 2010, as a double-A-side single with "Fancy", which would later appear in Thank Me Later. The single peaked at number two on the US Billboard Hot 100, becoming Drake's first top-ten single. It remained his highest-charting single as a lead artist (as both Rihanna collaborations "What's My Name?" and "Work" reached number one) in the United States until "One Dance" (2016) peaked at number one.
The song was nominated twice at the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards: Best Rap Solo Performance and Best Rap Song, although it lost both awards. In early 2010, the song was nominated for Single of the Year at the 2010 Juno Awards, but it lost to Michael Bublé's "Haven't Met You Yet".
Drake began work on "Best I Ever Had" along with the rest of his mixtape So Far Gone on the directive of the management team of his mentor Lil Wayne, who he was touring with at the time. In a 2013 interview with FLOW 93.5, Drake said the song was written about Zineb "Nebby" Samir, an ex-girlfriend of his who "represented everything about the city that I loved."
Producer Boi-1da said he made the beat for the song between December 2008 and January 2009 while living with his parents. Drake had asked him for two more tracks to complete his then-upcoming mixtape. A friend sent him a folder of "old school samples and what not" in which he found "Fallin' in Love", a song released in 1975 by American rock band Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds. He liked the intro to the song, a bass riff which he described as "very smooth" and "a quicker tempo than a lot of the stuff I do", and sampled it to create the entire beat for "Best I Ever Had" within 20 minutes. Despite thinking it was "simple" and "kinda just a skeleton", he sent it to Drake the next day, who recorded the vocals and finished it within hours.
"Best I Ever Had" is 4 minutes and 16 seconds long and has a tempo of 107 beats per minute. Writing credits are attributed to Drake and Boi-1da, while the latter is credited with producing the song and 40 (Noah Shebib) is credited with mixing and recording. It is a slow jam with rap-sung vocals and a "brassy syncopated beat". Boi-1da called the production "emotional" and recalled envisioning it during its creation as "a song about a girl". It has been described as a "Nerf-heavy declaration of lust" in which Drake both sings and raps to an unnamed lover in a second-person perspective, serenading them with "raunchy bons mots". Drake delivers lines of braggadocio ("Buzz so big I could probably sell a blank disc") as well as tenderness complimenting his lover ("Sweat pants, hair tied, chilling with no makeup on/That's when you the prettiest, I hope you don't take it wrong") including the chorus.
"Best I Ever Had" was released on February 13, 2009, as the tenth track on So Far Gone and its lead single. Drake said in a 2019 interview that he originally planned for the track "Uptown" featuring Bun B and Lil Wayne to be So Far Gone's first single, but was convinced by LeBron James' agent Rich Paul to release "Best I Ever Had" instead. The artwork for "Best I Ever Had" originally showed the single as a file on a computer with a plain white background, designed by artwork designer Darkie; this was deemed as too generic by iTunes; a new cover was created by Darkie.
After the 2009 BMI Awards on September 10, 2009, reports surfaced that Memphis rapper and producer Kia Shine had won three awards based off a writing credit for "Best I Ever Had" which had sampled various elements of "Do It For The Boy", a song he did for Lil Wayne which was on the October 2008 mixtape The Leak. Kia Shine said he produced the beat and wrote the hook for the song and shared it with Lil Wayne in March 2008, which eventually found its way to Drake. He was shopping the beat to another artist when DJ Absolut called him to ask why he sold it to Drake, whereupon he denied doing so. As the original record was already registered, Kia Shine's legal team contacted Universal Music Group and settled on a 25% royalty credit for "Best I Ever Had".
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Best I Ever Had
"Best I Ever Had" is a song by the Canadian rapper Drake from his third mixtape So Far Gone. The song was later re-released on his debut EP of the same name. The song's popularity helped Drake decide to release So Far Gone as an EP, available for purchase. "Best I Ever Had" is also included as a bonus track on Drake's debut studio album Thank Me Later in certain countries. The song samples "Fallin' in Love" by Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds and "Do It for the Boy" by Lil Wayne, and was produced by Boi-1da.
It was released as the first single from the tape as a digital download on February 11, 2009, and later as the third single from the EP in the United Kingdom on October 11, 2010, as a double-A-side single with "Fancy", which would later appear in Thank Me Later. The single peaked at number two on the US Billboard Hot 100, becoming Drake's first top-ten single. It remained his highest-charting single as a lead artist (as both Rihanna collaborations "What's My Name?" and "Work" reached number one) in the United States until "One Dance" (2016) peaked at number one.
The song was nominated twice at the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards: Best Rap Solo Performance and Best Rap Song, although it lost both awards. In early 2010, the song was nominated for Single of the Year at the 2010 Juno Awards, but it lost to Michael Bublé's "Haven't Met You Yet".
Drake began work on "Best I Ever Had" along with the rest of his mixtape So Far Gone on the directive of the management team of his mentor Lil Wayne, who he was touring with at the time. In a 2013 interview with FLOW 93.5, Drake said the song was written about Zineb "Nebby" Samir, an ex-girlfriend of his who "represented everything about the city that I loved."
Producer Boi-1da said he made the beat for the song between December 2008 and January 2009 while living with his parents. Drake had asked him for two more tracks to complete his then-upcoming mixtape. A friend sent him a folder of "old school samples and what not" in which he found "Fallin' in Love", a song released in 1975 by American rock band Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds. He liked the intro to the song, a bass riff which he described as "very smooth" and "a quicker tempo than a lot of the stuff I do", and sampled it to create the entire beat for "Best I Ever Had" within 20 minutes. Despite thinking it was "simple" and "kinda just a skeleton", he sent it to Drake the next day, who recorded the vocals and finished it within hours.
"Best I Ever Had" is 4 minutes and 16 seconds long and has a tempo of 107 beats per minute. Writing credits are attributed to Drake and Boi-1da, while the latter is credited with producing the song and 40 (Noah Shebib) is credited with mixing and recording. It is a slow jam with rap-sung vocals and a "brassy syncopated beat". Boi-1da called the production "emotional" and recalled envisioning it during its creation as "a song about a girl". It has been described as a "Nerf-heavy declaration of lust" in which Drake both sings and raps to an unnamed lover in a second-person perspective, serenading them with "raunchy bons mots". Drake delivers lines of braggadocio ("Buzz so big I could probably sell a blank disc") as well as tenderness complimenting his lover ("Sweat pants, hair tied, chilling with no makeup on/That's when you the prettiest, I hope you don't take it wrong") including the chorus.
"Best I Ever Had" was released on February 13, 2009, as the tenth track on So Far Gone and its lead single. Drake said in a 2019 interview that he originally planned for the track "Uptown" featuring Bun B and Lil Wayne to be So Far Gone's first single, but was convinced by LeBron James' agent Rich Paul to release "Best I Ever Had" instead. The artwork for "Best I Ever Had" originally showed the single as a file on a computer with a plain white background, designed by artwork designer Darkie; this was deemed as too generic by iTunes; a new cover was created by Darkie.
After the 2009 BMI Awards on September 10, 2009, reports surfaced that Memphis rapper and producer Kia Shine had won three awards based off a writing credit for "Best I Ever Had" which had sampled various elements of "Do It For The Boy", a song he did for Lil Wayne which was on the October 2008 mixtape The Leak. Kia Shine said he produced the beat and wrote the hook for the song and shared it with Lil Wayne in March 2008, which eventually found its way to Drake. He was shopping the beat to another artist when DJ Absolut called him to ask why he sold it to Drake, whereupon he denied doing so. As the original record was already registered, Kia Shine's legal team contacted Universal Music Group and settled on a 25% royalty credit for "Best I Ever Had".