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New Year's Eve Anthems, 2012-13: Drake & Soulja Boy - "We Made It" (Freestyle?)

Right around Thanksgiving , one Aubrey "Drake" Graham made a pretty lofty promise to release 4-6 new tracks online before year's end; not unlike the four-song combo-pack released online nearly three months ahead of his latest album, Nothing Was The Same . The first in a series that's since been effectively dubbed New Year's Eve Anthems , "We Made It" is in fact a Soulja Boy freestyle remix, with a Kenny Powers -led intro: "The only thing I'm seeing I'd like to put an amend on... perhaps a little more room here for the fixinsssss!" It previously appeared on Soulja Boy 's recent The King mixtape, sans Drake 's added lyrical assist. Thematically, "We Made It" has a similar underlying tone to "Started from The Bottom" and Drake 's unhinged fierce delivery seems to be cut from the same cloth as his former "Versace" remix. " Drake probably has almost an album's-worth of stuff reco...

You've Got Mail: Jai Paul - "BTSTU" (Drake's Indie Selection) 2010 A.D. Edit

"The Witzard (Pop Culture News Blog)" Sharpcheddar856 -- Airforcelondon show details 10:37 PM Greetings, Ben & Holly! Matt from "The Witzard" music blog here... I'm a 23-year-old college grad from South Jersey. An aspiring Businessman and Journalist, I started the blog about 2 years ago in an effort to share my knowledge of Pop Culture and sharpen my writing chops. To date, we have 50 Followers and rough 55,000 views and counting. My favourite genres are Punk, Hop-Hop , and Indie Rock ... But we try to cover all sorts of Pop Culture stories. After reading this recent Stereogum interview with Drake , I was compelled to peruse the web for some Take Care era B-sides. One of the first tracks I stumbled upon was "Dreams Money Can Buy," which I soon learned sampled Jai Paul - "BTSTU" (2010). An artist that I had admittedly never heard of before... with a quick Google search, I was lead to Jai Paul 's MySpace page and saw this ver...