Birdman Loves "Started From the Bottom"

”That Song Is Real Rap”
5:30PM ET February 22nd, 2013
Contributor : Martin James
A Rocky Williform Company

Cash Money head Birdman shared his reaction upon hearing Drake’s latest single “Started From the Bottom” for the first time. Birdman revealed how blown away he and Lil Wayne were when Drizzy debuted the song for them, and went to rave about Drake’s overall talents.

“Drake… he’s just not normal when it comes to music. He’s a fresh talent. He’s not a replica. He don’t duplicate. He’s setting his own tone and his own everything with music,” Birdman told MTV News. “I think this record’s really something for him to be different…he’s not a normal guy. He’s one of the most talented, really on earth, to me when it comes to music. … So to me I loved it, when [Lil Wayne and I] first heard it we were amazed.”

“Drake definitely is a fan of the culture and he’s definitely a fan of our culture, and where we come from — Cash Money, me and Wayne and how we built our whole foundation — so he’ll jab at some of the old Cash Money/Young Money flavors and he’s slick with it,” Birdman explained. “And that song is real rap, they ain’t doing that no more. That’s what makes him so different to me, and that’s what makes it so fly how he do it.”