Drake samples “Wise Man” on ‘For All The Dogs’
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Drake’s new studio album, For All The Dogs, samples Frank Ocean’s 2012 song “Wise Man” in its opening track, “Virginia Beach.” Ocean’s voice opens the record with a high-pitched excerpt from his song’s refrain, “I bet your mother would be proud of you,” which loops throughout Drake’s track.
“Wise Man” was originally intended for the 2012 film Django Unchained, but according to director Quentin Tarantino, “there just wasn’t a scene for it.” In a 2012 interview with Pitchfork, Tarantino said:
Frank Ocean wrote a fantastic ballad that was truly lovely and poetic in every way… I could have thrown it in quickly just to have it, but that’s not why he wrote it and not his intention, so I didn’t want to cheapen his effort. But the song is fantastic, and when Frank decides to unleash it on the public, they’ll realize it then.
Ocean unleashed the track in a Tumblr post on December 23, 2012, with a caption expressing his approval for the film despite the song’s exclusion:
Django was ill without it.
11 years later, it has reappeared on Drake’s eighth studio album. For All The Dogs and “Virginia Beach” are available across all streaming platforms.
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