We all knew this was gonna happen, right?
While on the Toronto set for his forthcoming “Successful” video, he revealed to MTV News exclusively that he’ll be re-releasing So Far Gone to retail outlets on September 15.
According to Drake, the revamped project will feature most of the familiar tracks that have powered his rise, from the Trey Songz and Lil Wayne-backed “Successful” to his hit “Best I Ever Had.”
But there will be a new record, “Fear,” added to the track list.
The never-before-heard song will be tacked on to the end of So Far Gone and will serve as the transition from his mixtape to Thank Me Later.
According to Drake, the last line of “Fear” will be the first line heard on his debut.
Hit the jump for more…
“I did this song that no one has ever heard before, ever,” he explained. “[It's] a song called ‘Fear.’ I recorded it when I did So Far Gone — the first verse and half of the second verse I had gotten through. But then I just stopped because it was getting eerie. It was getting where I didn’t know if I could [finish it]. And then the other night I had a moment and I finished the song. That’s gonna be the last song on the retail [version of] So Far Gone. And the third verse transitions into Thank Me Later. So the last line of the third verse is gonna be the first line on my album.”
When Drake first created So Far Gone, he said knowing it was a mixtape as opposed to an album fostered a more relaxed creative environment. He said the project wasn’t intended for retail. Now, because of his success, it’s made it easier for him to rework the mixtape.
“I don’t ever look at it and say, ‘I wish that was an album,’ ” he said earlier this year of So Far Gone. “It was important that that was a mixtape, ’cause if it was an album, I don’t know if it would’ve had the same impact. You know, I think the fact that I gave that for free, it was kind of brazen, like, ‘What?’ Like, ‘What do you have in your collection, in your catalog, to be able to throw this out there?’ And just while we were creating it, it was all of us, you know — me, 40, Oliver and everyone else involved — it was us just having fun in a stress-free environment because we knew we were going to give it away.”
Although Drake has been sidelined as of late after he re-injured his knee while on Young Money Presents: The America’s Most Wanted Music Festival, he’s feeling upbeat these days. So Far Gone presented a dark and moody collection of tracks, but with the finish of “Fear,” Drake said he’s now cleansed himself of the emotion of that time period.
“In that [new] verse I describe exactly how I’m feeling,” he explained. “I’m happy today. … I just feel like [now] I’m breathing a little deeper. The day is moving calm. There’s no tension. I feel like I cleansed myself of a lot of emotion that has been building up inside of me. I got it all out.”
Shouts to MTV’s Mixtape Daily on the exclusive.
DRAKE SUCKS! Can he go back to DEGRASSI and stop trying to rhyme like weezy. I mean, I can’t even take him serious.!!!!!
not getting it
Sounds good
PS: Will you guys post Birdshit’s new video lmfao
I like Comeback Season a lil better…he do 2much singing on So Far Gone
i think this is retarded, however i will download fear for free to spite this bullshit..
lol i download fear not go buy the whole thing over again..thts stupid juz drop anither tape dingleberry rogers lol jp drakes cool but a dumb move.. im sure he’s got 1o throw away tracks that havent leaked yet
“i think this is retarded, however i will download fear for free to spite this bullshit..”
^ this
how bout re-releasing Comeback Season instead
pretty much
I’m definitely copping that retail version and everybody who copped the free version and bumped it all these months need to as well. Show that support to the brother. I felt it was probably one of the best tapes (albums or mixtapes) this year, to go along with Big Sean’s “UKNOWBIGSEAN” tape, both of Kid Cudi’s tapes, and most recently, the homey QuESt’s BH album.
I still agree that I hope to hear some more Room For Improvement/Comeback Season style joints from him on the album, and NOT ONE WAYNE or YOUNG MONEY MEMBER COLLAB.
I wonder does that mean it would be looked at as an album and become eligible for certain awards and different records and stuff?
i never liked Drake, too much singing, i never got why he has so much hype surrounding him
anyway, i wonder if this will outsell CuDi
women who think ‘Best I Ever Had’ is their anthem versus hipster’s who may go out and buy an album..
should be good to see anyway
oh and im not saying that drake fan base is JUST women same with CuDi’s fanbase but it is a large majority
Either way I think it’s pretty smart, and from now on, people should step their mixtape quality game up. If you’re going to give it for free, still make it like an album. In 2009, can anybody tell what is the point of DJs hosting a mixtape if they don’t actually scratch or produce on the tape?
^^^^^^^^Good point.They dont do shit no more,dont even support the artist’s tape that they host
How can he make this retail, when he rhymed over other people’s beats?
*yawns*
he fell off
BUYING IT
haha
Either way I think it’s pretty smart, and from now on, people should step their mixtape quality game up. If you’re going to give it for free, still make it like an albumFor Example UKNOWBIGSEAN AND SOF GONE. In 2009, can anybody tell what is the point of DJs hosting a mixtape if they don’t actually scratch or produce on the tape? I DON’T UNDERSTAND WHAT DJ’S ACTUALLY DOES ON MIXTAPES
djs basically put their “stamp of approval” on it. like if its an unknown artist u might wanna see what they do if they have a gangsta grillz with him or somethin. now all the yelling and shit theres no point to that but thats what the basically do for mixtapes
I support Drake, but I won’t buy it. Makes no sense for me to get a bunch of songs (except one) that he gave for free. I’m still getting the album though.
He probably got the beats cleared. I know Kanye cleared the “Say You Will” for “Say What’s Real”. What were the other ones that weren’t original. I think the rendition of “Ignorant Sh*t” was a remake.
This is cool and I will support, I mean if I can buy Escape Route after bumpin it for a few days then I can buy this, and if CuDi’s album drops that day I’ll also be picking that up and Blueprint 3 a few days late.
stop hating on drake !!!!!
Definetly coppin thank me later idk bout buying so far gone…hmm… Wanna listen to fear badly though
This is really just for the people who we’re (oh so) late on Drake. We really don’t need this and you already know “Fear” will hit the net like; yesterday. I mean dude is dope and all, but I’ll be possibly copping the album, not no mixtape I got in Feb.-Mar.
“I don’t ever look at it and say, ‘I wish that was an album,’ ” he said earlier this year of So Far Gone. “It was important that that was a mixtape, ’cause if it was an album, I don’t know if it would’ve had the same impact. You know, I think the fact that I gave that for free, it was kind of brazen, like, ‘What?’ Like, ‘What do you have in your collection, in your catalog, to be able to throw this out there?’
It’s not like it was a mixtape by choice, half the album is other people’s songs. Talented dude, but sometimes I wanna slap him.
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Cityonmyback.com » So Far Gone gets a retail release said this on August 14th, 2009 at 2:19 pm
“I don’t ever look at it and say, ‘I wish that was an album,’ ” he said earlier this year of So Far Gone. “It was important that that was a mixtape, ’cause if it was an album, I don’t know if it would’ve had the same impact. You know, I think the fact that I gave that for free, it was kind of brazen, like, ‘What?’ Like, ‘What do you have in your collection, in your catalog, to be able to throw this out there?’
nigga, shut the fuck up. mixtape or album shits all the same. & by the same i mean free. oooooowwwwwwwwwww
I’m not rocking with him anymore. Why is his milking So Far Gone? It’s bad enough he actually re-released Best I Ever Had to retail, but right now he’s acting like he’s broke, like he didn’t just get a grip from the deal, or like he’s not on tour with lil wayne. Nigga need to go do a GAP commercial. tALK about zionism.
“He probably got the beats cleared. I know Kanye cleared the “Say You Will” for “Say What’s Real”. What were the other ones that weren’t original. I think the rendition of “Ignorant Sh*t” was a remake.”
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He has the clear the samples for
Bria’s Interlude
A Night Off & Ignant Shit (there the same sample)
even uptown is a sample(or so i heard anyway)
Congratulations(if he wanna put that bonus song up there)
have to have Santogold and Lykee Lil to clear there songs on it. I dont know if he was on that lil bit remix before or not
*sighs*
He was never on.
The thing that really gets me is, you don’t see his peers doing it, at least i hope they don’t follow his lead.
i dont see why some commenters are trippin about him re-releasing it. its HIS music, you act like you HAVE to go buy it or something. chill out. he’s definitely changed since his first mixtape. but personally i think he’s improved. if you don’t like him, don’t listen.
Hatred is inevitable. That’s the only thing I can think of.
If ppl dont like drake so much why even click on the “DRAKE links” just to hate huh? yall some pathetic muhfuckas, I swear…
COMEBACK SEASON!
re-release that.
whos paying to clear those samples. theres some obvious hip hop i nfluenced songs. but there are some others. little bit is just him resinging another song.
im interesting in hearing fear. but thank me later will be my first purchase
http://thisisfaizan.blogspot.com/2009/08/sofargone.html
wait, wheres dom kennedy and all the other artists that havent sold out yet ?
Best I ever had is a one hit wonder probably like his only good song…jimmy go back to degrassi
Drake felll off months ago…and why would anybody pay for 1 song.
Dude has like 3 or 4 fucking songs on the radio so he’s beyond 1 hit wonder and the radio is fucked anyway cause of dumbed down idiots so charting doesn’t mean shit at the end of the day cause soooo many people are putting out what’s hot right now making everything sound the fucking same but I’ll probably cop this though to support him even though I’m extremely against the usage of autotune. And Wayne raps like Drake, not the other way around. Dude ghost wrote on Carter 3 for Wayne.
And even with that statement said by 1 Dollar about Charting not meaning anything (Which is true IMO), Drake is CHARTING as well. He has like 4 of these MIXTAPE (YES, MIXTAPE) tracks on the Billboard Charts right now.
So I don’t see where the hatred is coming from. Support good music. What, are y’all too busy listening to Booty Doo or something?
@ Young Son (The Hip Hop Dreamer)
They must be cause even though I’m extremely against the usage of autotune, I rather hear Drake’s shit than hear shit like Booty Doo, Halle Berry, whatever that Energy remix is, Every Girl, Always Strapped, Ok Your Right, whatever that song is by Web Star feat. Jim Jones and Santana, shit from Gucci which is fucking ridiculous here in North Carolina cause of soooo many dumbed down idiots, etc…..
niggas hatin on drake need to quit it stop hatin witcha lame asses ! T DOT STAND THE FUCK UP !
Yeah, plus Drake doesn’t use the autotune as much as you think. Plus, some of the hottest joints like “Successful” and “Say What’s Real” and stuff didn’t have any of that autotune ish.
Comeback Season>> So Far Gone… IMO
Hey … IDopeBoy I hope you read this, really.
what the fuck is wrong with being a hipster?
i remember before so far gone dropped and before he was on the radio everyone on here was praising Drake and now its like fuck him
^^I never liked Drake.
And Drake should put down the mic and stick to bein Jimmy. The radio sucks asscheek, and guess who happened to be on the radio? DRAKE.
who’s gonna buy this crap when they can get it 4 free…what happened to originality?
Too late, no one will buy this crap.
How are you going to add just one song and try to make money off a tape that was FREE!
Glad he got mad success in the rap game, but why is he so successful? Best I Ever Had was terrible! SMH….
Im goin to support the big homie
But Comeback Season was better “lyrically” than So Far Gone
i thought the winner was the first single?an i thought comeback season was way better then sofarso gone