Key Takeaways:

• Yeat mirrored on how Drake’s mentorship helped him develop as an artist {and professional}.
• Their collaborations, together with “IDGAF” and “DOG HOUSE,” replicate a rising inventive bond.
• Yeat’s forthcoming album, A DANGEROUS LYFE, might present the affect of Drake’s mentorship.

Yeat is endlessly grateful for Drake. On Wednesday (Oct. 22), the “Talk” rapper spoke with music/a/eric-skelton/yeat-pray-love”>Complex about how their relationship — and eventual collaborations — modified every part for him.

“It definitely changed things, because it showed that I wasn’t just this small underground thing anymore,” he stated of the viral photo they took together in 2021. “I was getting recognition from one of the biggest artists in the world, if not the biggest. It changed things for everybody — for my fans and for outsiders.”

Four years later, the artists don’t have any scarcity of songs. They first gave us “IDGAF” from 2023’s For All The Dogs, then adopted it up with “As We Speak” the following 12 months. The California native additionally joined Drake throughout the Toronto native’s third Iceman livestream for his forthcoming solo album final month, the place they previewed and later dropped the Julia Wolf–assisted “DOG HOUSE.”

Coming off that monster of a collaboration, Yeat emphasised that Drake is “really good at making really good music.” He defined, “He has unlimited hits. He can really just sit there and do it over and over again. Being around him, it makes sense why he’s in the position he is. It’s great to witness.”

Drake’s musical expertise clearly shouldn’t shock anybody. The Canadian rapper already has over a dozen No. 1s on the Billboard Hot 100 and greater than 360 entries on the chart alone. Naturally, Yeat has discovered a factor or two from the Canadian star, like the right way to “operate at a higher level” and “take things to the next level.”

“I didn’t think there was ever a cap to how big I’m going to get because of how creative I am, and how far I’m down to push the boundaries, but seeing it firsthand and being around The Boy, it was good insight,” Yeat advised the publication. “And that’s my brother. It was good to see how shit works at that level and at that capacity.”

While, Drake’s Iceman is slated to drop someday in 2025 — at the very least according to former NFL quarterback Johnny Manziel — Yeat can also be gearing up for an additional album. He confirmed A DANGEROUS LYFE is formally within the works.