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Quentin Miller, who collaborated with Drake on the rapper’s 2015 release, claims he was never paid for his work.
Miller made the claim in a recent interview with Vlad TV, where he also talked about the aftermath from Meek Mill’s accusation that he “ghostwrote” four tracks from IYRTITL for Drizzy. Regarding the entire incident, Miller remarked, “It was just really inconsiderate.” “It’s like I don’t matter. … Maybe just ‘cause I was a writer, I don’t know. … Even with [DJ] Drama and them, just throwing my whole life on the back burner just, like you know whatever, to get at a n***a. But what about me, what about me taking care of my family? The fact that I put my whole life into this shit.”
Miller accused Meek of robbing him of a big year. “I’m working with a n***a that literally is about to change my life, you know, even though I was in my horrible, horrible, horrible publishing situation with Tricky [Stewart] so I never got a publishing check off of any Drake songs,” he continued. “I never got a single publishing check off any songs. I had to feed my family off getting paid under the table in that situation, ‘cause Tricky and them wouldn’t let me go. … I didn’t get out that deal ‘til 2019, 2020; I signed [in] 2011.”
In the end, Miller was able to break his publication contract with Tricky, but not without making some compromises. “I had to let go of a lot of shit just to get out. Even while I was in it, I never got a publishing check or nothing,” he added. “I was just grinding, bro. I was grinding it out just hoping that one day that one song or working with that one artist is gonna change something—and that was the Drake thing! But it just didn’t change anything.”