Kia Shine Speaks On His Role In Drake’s, “Best I Ever Had”
“Drake sampled the melody, some of the words, cadence, etc. So because I had already registered the original record, my business was in order. I sent in the Drake record and let my legal team handle it from there. We were able to settle at 25% of the “Best I Ever Had” publishing. It’s a blessing, but the moral of the story is to “follow up to get your dollars up” and always be prepared and on top of your business. People should really read my discography and they would understand that this in no surprise. They will respect my mind and my grind soon enough.”
Then we asked Kia Shine about Drake’s response:
“I have never met Kia Shine or worked with him. I wrote the entire composition in Toronto and I borrowed one line from a Lil Wayne song that he produced the BEAT for. The claims of 25% ownership are false and for a artist to brag about splits on a song is distasteful to begin with.”Kia Shine replied:
“First of all, no one is bragging about it. Once I got the BMI award and it happened and it started to get out. I’m just giving the information about what happened…it’s been quiet. I’ve known about this since January.”
But you know what really sums it up best?
“That royalty check will be the best I ever had.”
via Global Grind & TeamYee(Has Audio)
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September 18th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
That check better last him the rest of his career
September 18th, 2009 at 2:29 pm
kia shine is pure fail
September 18th, 2009 at 2:46 pm
he just said he did grost write for drake drake just use the beat
September 18th, 2009 at 3:00 pm
He produced and wrote the melody for the hook on Lil Wayne’s song, “That’s My Nigga” so that Wayne could get a feel for where Kia wanted the record to go. Then somehow they end up re-doing the beat and giving it to Drake, so he took the melody and a line from Lil Wayne’s song. So now, due to the strong similarities, they gotta fork over 25%.
September 18th, 2009 at 4:15 pm
Got em!
September 18th, 2009 at 4:39 pm
“That royalty check will be the best I ever had.”
POW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He won LOL
September 18th, 2009 at 4:47 pm
Drake = overrated…. 1st he asked Flex to go to commercial while he was suppose to be freestyln, now this?
September 18th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
yup another gimmick
i believe the kia guy
y wud he lie bout sumthin lke dis with proof
September 18th, 2009 at 5:50 pm
Im so tired of this weird lookin ass nigga,Drake. 5 minutes in the music business and he’s already discrediting people who he has done music with. Shame on that funny lookin n#gga. looks like he’s takin a page from Jay-Z book.
September 18th, 2009 at 5:51 pm
Show the cheque & drakes reaction on camera and we good.
September 18th, 2009 at 7:48 pm
BBC25 Says:
September 18th, 2009 at 2:29 pm
kia shine is pure fail
Sorry but this is in NO way a fail
September 18th, 2009 at 8:09 pm
kia just simply crispy!
September 18th, 2009 at 8:19 pm
god damn i love RTNY!
September 19th, 2009 at 12:29 am
yo drakes the BIGGEST nigga out right now, his buzz is WAY above all yall fuckin haters, kia shine? no one gives a fuck about this nigga, why doesnt he go and make another hit then? cuz he cant cuz he fuckin sucks, hop of drizzy’s dick, wait till his album drops then ya’ll fucked.
September 19th, 2009 at 9:27 am
Co-sign #10… Drake is tak’n the “L” on this one… Plus that nucca got a fat check to boot!!!!??? Sh!!!!tttttt!!!! “I’m so crispy… i’m so crispy”
September 19th, 2009 at 4:52 pm
kia shine is cornyy.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
this will be the only check he would ever get.!!!!!
lol
September 19th, 2009 at 5:14 pm
SMH u cant hate this nigga 4 gettin his money. even tho it hurts drakes #1 fans that hes phoney. dont get me wrong, drake has heat. it just aint his lmao. But its not the end of the world for him. Drake shouldnt even lie about it. Take your L Drizzy and keep ur head up. sucka
September 19th, 2009 at 10:38 pm
Kia Shine is full of shit…nigga changed his story a million times. At first he said he wrote the entire song “Best I ever had”
http://soundhustle.com/?page=vid.view&vid=833
September 20th, 2009 at 9:37 pm
if homey’s gettin a BMI check @ 25% jus accept it…lol! he may be corny but y’all folks (Drake/Wayne) saw somethin they tried to steal from the “corny” n!gga and now they gotta split profits wit that same “corrny” n!gga…lmao!
September 21st, 2009 at 9:58 am
the same thing that Beastie Boys did to Kia Shine with Krispy, Kia Shine is doing to Drake with Best I Ever Had. that’s all that it is.
that’s why that dude Dynasty re-did the chorus to Trickin If You Got It, because the original version’s hook was sung similar to how T.I. said “it ain’t trickin if you got it” on Whatever You Like.
September 22nd, 2009 at 10:49 am
yall dudes funny. if Kia ” I dont know how to” Shine gets 25%, then so be it. Drake’s pockets aren’t hurting from that bullshit that’s why he is acting so nonchalant from it. Kia Shine has never been that good but he’s always been that bad. Get the money and move on dude because we all know that you can’t get back in the booth and attempt to make a hit track. Drake aint doin all you dudes, he doing him and him is doing quite well. The only nigga that hasn’t dropped an album and got the entire world going crazy. 50 just had niggaz goin crazy with his buzz before he dropped, Drake got the entire world going crazy. Niggaz need to ketchup because slow niggaz get left…wise words from Mac Dre….RIP homie.
September 23rd, 2009 at 9:46 am
man that nigg Drake weak as fuck n-e-way n 4 all u niggs that dont know who Kia Shine is u dont know shit cause that nigg is a smaller Kanye. He write, rap, compose, and produce so how can a nigg say he didnt kinow Kia did the beat. Dumb-ass nigg if u took a line from Wayne and he did the beat and the melody 4 Wayne what does that make that u dumb-ass Canadian. Stop makin all these bitch records and come wit some real street shit ( if u can) lame ass nigg.
September 25th, 2009 at 10:05 am
HA so Drake borrowed one line from a song Wayne did?? Didn’t Wayne say he freestyles all his songs? This just proves both of them are fake artist.