Original Post:http://octobersveryown.blogspot.com/2009/09/best-i-ever-had.html
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Best I Ever Had
There have been questions posed to me the last few days about the writing of Best I Ever Had and I figured I'd take the time to clear the air directly. I have never met Kia Shine or worked with him. I wrote the entire composition in Toronto and I borrowed one line from a Lil Wayne song that he produced the BEAT for. The claims of 25% ownership are false and for a artist to brag about splits on a song is distasteful to begin with.
Posted by Drizzy at 6:31 PM
Kia Says:POSTED BY WAVEY WILLIE
GLOBALGRIND.COM
This should end all the back and forth abou Kia Shine being a ghostwriter for Drake. Kia spoke exclusively to Global Grind about what went down. Read what he had to say below...
“Basically I did a record for Lil Wayne called "Do It For The Boy", which was on The Leak mixtape back in October. My dude DJ Absolute & Enuff was spinning the joint in NY. I gave Wayne the joint back in March of ‘08 and I had yet to hear the completed version until Absolute hit me. Actually, he was in the office with my man Daralle Jones at Atlantic. He wanted buy the song from me to use for Jahiem. I tried to contact Young Money to get paid for the original track before I made a move, but couldn’t get anyone to hit me back. Producer note, as a producer, it‘s tough with mixtapes these days. Artist will rap on a 2 track version of a beat & hook you put on a beat CD to shop and the next thing you know your beat is on the radio. It’s really impossible for Wayne to do a mixtape track, because if the song is a hit, it’s going to touch radio. That’s why whenever I produce or perform on a record I immediately send it to my guy, Maani, on the publishing side to handle all the paperwork, etc. I get a call from Absolute and he's like, "Yo, you sold the song to Drake." I’m like who's Drake??? Absolute sent me the joint in January and I’m like...wooooow! Drake sampled the melody, some of the words, cadence, etc. So because I had already registered the original record, my business was in order. I sent in the Drake record and let my legal team handle it from there. We were able to settle at 25% of the "Best I Ever Had" publishing. It's a blessing, but the moral of the story is to "follow up to get your dollars up" and always be prepared and on top of your business. People should really read my discography and they would understand that this in no surprise. They will respect my mind and my grind soon enough.”Every1 sleeping on me will wake up working for me".... Alarm Clock Experience Mixtape Coming soon!
Check out Kia claiming he co-WROTE 'Best I Ever Had" @ 1:00 min mark
Miss Conversation Piece Says:
Well if he did write good for him, but if it was just a beat sampled I can feel where Drake is coming from. Let me here the origianl track so we can see WHO'S LYING????
***Update***Acording to sources at VLADTV.com, There's a little controversy in the air. Kia Shine is going around saying that he co-wrote "Best I Ever Had" by Drake; when that isn't quite the case. Check it out...The word on the street is that Kia Shine didn't write any of the song, but instead he produced the beat on a Lil Wayne song entitled "DO IT FOR THE BOY." A song which Drake sampled and copied the melody from.
IMO, Kia Shine is one smart southern boy. He called his lawyers and the case was settled at 25% for "BEST I EVER HAD."
But, on the flip side because there is always a flip side; Kia Shine did not write one line or one word on the track. He had part ownership of the orginal track that Drake sampled from. And, that's what it is. Why he is going around saying that he co-wrote the song?? That I don't know.
