Camila Cabello just entered a new era of music with her latest album, C, XOXO. Drake is among the collaborators on her tracklist. More recently, the singer revealed how her two collaborations with the rapper came to be.
The former Fifth Harmony member appeared in an interview with Zane Lowe for Apple Music, saying the connection between her and Champagne Papi started via DMs.
"I feel like, at least from what I know of myself, I feel like we're musically aligned in a lot of ways," she said of their friendship, adding, "I think we have a lot of the same taste, and lyrically as well. I actually slid into his DMs too, and I was like, 'I've been listening to you so much for this album,' a lot of the wordplay and my aspiration for bars."
She further recalled that the rapper followed her around the time she released the song "Havana," and she was able to send him her new album to listen to.
They later conceptualized the song "Hot Uptown," and she wrote her part; they later "chopped it" to make the track feel like a duet.
Later, Drake reworked his parts and gave her an outro, which became part of another song, "UUUgly."
Explaining how the second track was conceptualized, she said, "It's a twofer because he didn't really need to give me an outro, but for me, it's like I don't want to hear a song like 'Hot Uptown' and then have it go into this one minute thing where he is talking his s-, so we decided to just make it another song."
Aside from Drake, other collaborators on her new album include Playboi Carti on "I LUV IT," Lil Nas X on "HE KNOWS," City Girls' JT and Yung Miami on "Dade County Dreaming," and BLP KOSHER on "koshi xoxo."
Cabello and Drake made headlines in December last year after sparking dating rumors. According to the Daily Mail, the pair were spotted spending time in a yacht and riding jet skis at Noah's Ark Beach Club in the Turks and Caicos Islands. At the time, they were accompanied by Kai and Valentine Lawrence.
As of this writing, the pair has never spoken out about whether they got romantically involved.
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