Drake Apparently Wrote 'Nice For What' While Playing Video Games

Drake's "Nice For What" is an elaborate tightrope act. The song produced by Murda Beatz balances a Lauryn Hill sample, New Orleans bounce groove, and an intro from Big Freedia, although manages to prepare the disparate parts coalesce into one grand vision. Surprisingly, the story of how the song came with each other makes it seem like all of that complexity wasn't hard to manage. In an interview on the Rap Radar podcast, Murda Beatz shared that he worked on the song with Drake, while the rapper was playing video games.


"We were chillin' at Drake's home Murda mentioned. "We're playing [NBA] 2K, and we came up with the idea to get like a lady artist, to sample a lady artist. So I asked my boss Cory, like, 'Yo, what do you suggest He's like, '[Lauryn Hill's] "Ex-Factor" and then Drake's like, 'Oh, what part?' And we picked the part, chopped it up, I made the beat once he was playing 2K."


Murda also revealed that the initial pass at the song was written in under two hours.


"He sat there," Beatz continued. "Wrote the shit in front of me. Cut the shit in front of me. Yeah, we had the shit done, beat and song, probably like hour as well as a half."


Murda Beatz is having a wonderful year. He produced "Motorsport" for Migos and "I Do" on Cardi B's Invasion of Privacy, as well as an entire tape for Smokepurpp. Hopefully, as soon as Scorpion drops there really are a number of more Murda concoctions.


Watch the entire interview on Tidal.