Tony Yayo Reacts To Drake Sampling His Song "Roll Up" On "Free Smoke" From More Life

[WSFGDan]

You never really know who will end up being sampled on an OVO album. On Drizzy’s latest project More Life, there’s one sample — in particular — that really sticks out from the bunch. While artists like R. Kelly and Lionel Richie lent their past records to the release, G-Unit’s Tony Yayo also found his way onto the very first song on the album.

“Free Smoke,” which was produced by Boi-1da, contains a sample of Tony Yayo and Danny Brown’s 2010 track “Roll Up.” Before anyone outside of Detroit knew who Danny Brown was, the G-Unit rapper saw raw talent in the undiscovered star. The song was featured on their collaborative mixtape, Hawaiian Snow.

During a recent visit to VIBE with his young cohorts, Chris Miles and Young Dooey, Tony opened up about the exact moment he found out Drake wanted his song for More Life.

“I got the call from the [lawyers],” Tony says with a laugh. “Then I got the call from the big guy, Paul Rosenberg. Shout out to Shady records. Then I got the call from Fif. I was surprised, you know when one of the biggest artists in the game wants to use something from your mixtape, it’s cool. It was an honor. Drake is a monster out here right now.”

Stay tuned for more from VIBE’s interview with Tony Yayo, Chris Miles and Young Dooey.

Tony Yayo Says He Was “Honored” To Be Sampled On Drake’s ‘More Life’

 

[luckyse7enz]

The song was featured on their collaborative mixtape, Hawaiian Snow.

I remember how random I thought this collaboration was when I first heard about it. They even had Lil' B on a couple tracks. The stories that must have been told in those sessions...

 

[Urbanmiracle]

For real, Tony Yayo has a dope mixtape catalog. He had a nice run and Hawaiian Snow was DOPE. They killed that tape..

 

[letti cook]

how the fukk i miss this mixtape?

 

[WSFGDan]

I remember how random I thought this collaboration was when I first heard about it. They even had Lil' B on a couple tracks. The stories that must have been told in those sessions...

Danny just got out of Jail and Yayo was letting him sleep on his couch

 

[WSFGDan]

how the fukk i miss this mixtape?

Nobody cared about Danny Brown back then, he was just starting out with Yayo, then he got bigger afterward.

 

[Long Live The Kane]

Danny brown is trash

 

[joaoreis]

Danny just got out of Jail and Yayo was letting him sleep on his couch

Yayo always been a real one, and have a good ear for beats and for scooping up new talent... worked with max b, French Montana, Danny brown, and several other artists. He could've been g-unit a&r, but 50 never let him do it... g-unit would be on a whole other level if he was doing this part

 

[Chris Cool]

Nobody cared about Danny Brown back then, he was just starting out with Yayo, then he got bigger afterward.

i wouldnt say nobody. the hybird was getting blog love, that's when i became a danny brown fan. then he cut his hair got the loud beats and got all that hipster love.


that's another 50 fukk up right there though, nikka was cool on danny because he wore skinny jeans

 

[GzUp]

Who cares.

 

[WSFGDan]

i wouldnt say nobody. the hybird was getting blog love, that's when i became a danny brown fan. then he cut his hair got the loud beats and got all that hipster love.


that's another 50 fukk up right there though, nikka was cool on danny because he wore skinny jeans

I mean it's not like Danny Brown is a superstar now he's still just a hipster darling, 50's biggest fukk up was J Cole.

The Hybrid was cool; 2DopeBoyz was hyping it, but most of his fans came from XXX

 

[KG1]

Yayo has great ear for music. Would be no Banks without Yayo. Even had Jcole sleeping in fif's place in CT. If Yayo was more organized he could have his own label

 

[TransJenner]

When i had a twitter Yayo randomly followed me

Didn't even talk about rap or anything it was random as fu k

 

[Chris Cool]

so 50 held Yayo and banks back?

 

[blizzard man]

Danny brown is trash