Still D.R.E.

ride.

Still Dre.

No, let me ride is probably it.

Oh, let me ride.

Snoop.

Still Dre.

Snoop doesn't really actually rap.

But he's still there.

But it's fair to say that things have definitely changed.

In recent years, ghostwriting has become a hot topic in the rap game.

There's intense debate over if using ghostwriters is basically a form of cheating, but when you actually dive into the history of hip hop, it turns out the truth is way more complicated than you might think.

What we're gonna do is break down the ghostwriter debate from a completely new angle.

What exactly makes ghostwriting so controversial? Which legendary rappers are actually some of the most well-known ghostwriters in the game? And which iconic artists have built million-dollar careers with other rappers' lyrics? We're gonna go even deeper by looking into the backstory of Drake's history with ghostwriters, including the story of one of his most notorious collaborators, Quentin Miller.

What makes Drake's use of ghostwriters way different than the rappers who came before him? Is ghostwriting actually killing hip hop, or has it been part of the rap game since the very beginning? But before all that, what exactly does ghostwriting mean?

You're not supposed to be biting and you're not supposed to be having a bunch of writers, but, you know, that's been going on since the beginning of time, like-

When hip hop first took off in the Bronx during the 1970s, the craft of being an MC meant being able to write and spit your own rhymes.

I'm talking about? I remember one day my dad beat my ass because he always said, don't use the boombox and play loud music.

But everyone was gone, so I put in Still Dre.

I bought that album.

Or Chronic 2001.