Gordo didn’t know Drake was dropping three albums.
The producer and longtime Drake collaborator says the three-album release caught him completely off guard, even though he worked on the production for a year-and-a-half. Drizzy apparently kept the rollout under wraps.
“I knew it was going to be two albums,” Gordo told Rolling Stone. “I didn’t know it was going to be three.”
On May 15, the 6 God put out Iceman, Habibti, and Maid of Honour, a combined 43 songs arriving at once. The triple drop arrived almost three years after his last album, 2023’s For All the Dogs, and two years after his high-profile feud with Kendrick Lamar.
Gordo—formerly known as DJ Carnage—produced several songs for Drake, most of which ended up on the experimental dance record, Maid of Honour: “Hoe Phase,” “Road Trips,” “Outside Tweaking,” “Amazing Shape,” “BBW,” “New Bestie,” “True Bestie,” “Stuck,” and “Goose & the Juice.” Gordo also produced “WNBA” on Habibti.
“It’s super, super different, and it’s been this thing where I’ve been the guy that he has done different stuff with,” Gordo told the publication about Drake’s club-driven music. “Obviously, I’ve heard the rap stuff, but him doing all the crossover stuff with me, that’s just the coolest thing about it.”
He described Maid of Honour as having “different flows, different energies, different vibes.”
What perhaps surprised Gordo most was that Drake worked on the production for several songs, including “Hoe Phase” and “New Bestie.”
“I’m not going to lie to you. As much as we worked on them, a lot of these records were done by Drake,” Gordo said. “We would give him these pieces and then like, the version that I heard on the album was a version I never heard before.”
When asked how he feels Drake’s fans have been receiving the music, particularly since his beef with Lamar, Gordo replied, “It’s been more than positive, right? So that’s a win right there. … I’m so, so proud of him. He worked so hard, and I’m happy that I’m just a very, very small piece into his legacy.”
