This probably means absolutely nothing to most people, but for me and people like myself, this is quite interesting. So, my homeboy Preston, who is one of my homies that I used to sit around the dorm room with back in college, listening to music for hours at a time, arguing all day about who were the best emcees. To his credit, I have Preston down as the first person to put me up on Lupe Fiasco, so you can say the guy is up on his hip-hop. So Preston, myself and my dude Lank, pretty much have this hip-hop bond where we share new music via email, and when we get a chance, we’ll get together and hit up a show.

Anyways, Preston just hit me with the mp3 sample to Drake’s hit single “Best I Ever Had.” The song is called “Fallin’ In Love” by Hamilton, Joe Frank, and Reynolds, who were a soft rock trio back in the ’70s, and the song was #1 on the Billboard Hot 10o in 1975. (Hmmm…could the same fate be on the horizon for “Best I Ever Had”?).

Boi-1da is the beatmaker who produced “Best I Ever Had,” and he was obviously digging in the crates to find this one. Nice work 1da. I’m actually supposed to interview 1da soon, so I’ll definitely ask him about this sample, and the structure of this beat (producer jargon, you wouldn’t understand).

Like I said, this is pretty much nerd rap talk, in which I am a rap nerd, so it’s probably boring to most people. But this is what me and my friends do. But it’s part of the reason I know a lot about rap music, and it’s another reason why my ear for music is quite keen (if I do say so myself). I upped “Best I Ever Had” in case for some odd reason you’ve never heard it, or you just don’t remember what it sounds like.

Drake – “Best I Ever Had” (prod. by Boi-1da)