“I didn’t officially know until his lawyers hit up my publishers." Hearing her “throwaway recording” of Aaliyah turn up on Scorpion was a welcome surprise. It‘s really beautiful seeing somebody that seasoned still be shy about his art.” We just hit it off and both trust each other and, if anything… You know the nervous artist talk before you want to show somebody something? It was really funny to get that from him: ‘It’s not finished’, ‘I need to work on it more’ – I’m like, ‘shut up’. “He picked up pretty quickly that I’m not going to sell his shit to buy a yacht. It was very natural, just bouncing ideas off each other.” Sometimes it’ll be 6am, driving home from the studio and he’s literally just made something. We’ve been talking to each other, minimum every week since November. He sends me a bunch of stuff to work on - it was maybe nine songs all up,” the 29-year-old tells triple j from a studio in Byron Bay, where Hiatus Kaiyote are recording a new album.ĭrake, a documented fan of Nai's solo album Needle Paw, also sampled Hiatus’ 2015 song ‘Building A Ladder’ to open his 2016 project More Life. They hit it off immediately and began trading musical ideas. So how did this hook-up happen? Well, Nai got to meet Drizzy IRL in Melbourne late last year, during the OVO lord’s Australian tour.
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