If you're anything like us, Kanye West and Kendrick Lamar's six-minutes of glorious old-school hip-hop, "No More Parties In L.A.," has been on repeat all week. But listen closely to the end of the song and you'll hear a little known sample by Larry Graham, the father of singer-songwriter and producer Darric Graham and the uncle of Aubrey Drake Graham, best known by his middle name - Drake.
The sample comes in after one of the most talked about lines in the song - "And as far as real friends, tell my cousins I love 'em / Even the one that stole the laptop, you dirty motherf*cker."
Graham then comes in with the starkly different R&B song "Stand Up And Shout About Love," singing, "I just keep on lovin' you baby / and there's no one else I know can take your place."
It's a perfect pause to the song that breaks up the five minutes of pure fire shooting from the speakers, and has that effortless Kanye flare.
According to Complex, Kanye assembled the original instrumentals to the song during a 2010 My Dark Twisted Fantasy session with Malibu. Kim Kardashian revealed Kanye needed to put some last minute work into the track after a trip to Italy last week, which very well could have been when he added in this little gem. The folks over at WhoSampled quickly parsed through the beats to reveal the Drake connection.
Drake was also referenced in Kanye's 2016 New Year's Eve drop of "FACTS," which was a potential diss referencing the Canadian rapper's 2015 single "Jumpman" alongside Future. But, given the Ye's and Drake's general chumminess over the years it seem unlikely that it was anything more than a shout out.
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