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- Author: DrakeVEVO
Name | Forever |
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Cover | drake-Forever.jpg |
Border | yes |
Artist | Drake featuring Kanye West, Lil Wayne and Eminem |
Album | Music Inspired by the Film More Than a Game and Relapse: Refill |
Released | August 27, 2009 (Radio)September 15, 2009 (Single) |
Format | Airplay, digital download |
Recorded | August 2009 |
Length | 5:58 (Album Version)5:22 (Radio Edit) |
Genre | Hip hop, rap |
Label | Zone 4, InterscopeShady, Aftermath |
Producer | Boi-1da |
Writer | Marshall Mathers, Aubrey Graham, Kanye West, Dwayne Carter, Matthew Samuels |
Chronology | Drake singles |
Last single | "Money to Blow"(2009) |
This single | "Forever"(2009) |
Next single | "Fed Up"(2009) |
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"Forever" is a single by rapper Drake. The song features verses by rappers Kanye West, Lil Wayne, and Eminem. The song is released as a single from the soundtrack to LeBron James's More Than a Game documentary. The song was also put on the re-release of Eminem's album Relapse called . Eminem performed his verse of the song at the American Music Awards of 2009. Drake performed the song with Lil Wayne, Eminem and Travis Barker at the 52nd Grammy Awards.
BackgroundThe track was produced by Boi-1da and originally used by Kardinal Offishall featuring Rock City in early 2008 as "Bring It Back". Kardinal did not use the song for his album and it was later re-sold to Drake which was released in late-2008 as "I Want This Forever" featuring Lil Wayne and Nut da Kidd. In an interview, Kardinal stated that his version was a leaked demo, and was supposed to appear on his album, Not 4 Sale, as well as a soundtrack. He also revealed that Drake wrote the hook, "He had written it and then we were supposed to get either Rock City or Akon or T-Pain to sing it." The 2009 version of "Forever" features Kanye West, Lil Wayne, and Eminem. Rapper Jay-Z called it the best posse cut of the year.
Music videoThe music video was shot in Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami, Florida in early September 2009. However, Eminem's part in the video was shot in Detroit due to scheduling conflicts and not being able to be in Miami. The music video was shot and directed by Hype Williams. It premiered on September 22, 2009 on BET's musical program 106 & Park. LeBron James appears in the opening of the music video in the back seat of a Maybach playing online poker on PokerStars on his customized Beats by Dr. Dre's laptop. Except for during dissolves, there is not a single frame in the video where more than one of the rappers is featured. Throughout the video, there are clips and pictures from the documentary about James, More Than a Game, and of him as a kid playing basketball. Also Slaughterhouse (Royce da 5'9", Joell Ortiz, Joe Budden, Crooked I), Tony Yayo, The Alchemist, Trick-Trick, Xzibit and D12 member Kon Artis make cameo appareances in Eminem's verse of the video behind him as he raps his verse. Birdman makes a cameo appearances in the video on Lil Wayne's verse, sitting next to him in the VIP section of the club. The music video was produced alongside the video for "Money to Blow".
Chart performance"Forever" entered the U.S. Billboard Hot R&B;/Hip-Hop Songs at number fifty-eight on September 3, 2009, peaking at #2. The song become the most downloaded song for the week ending September 15, 2009. On the week of September 24, the song debuted at #8 on the Billboard Hot 100, making it Drake's highest debut on the chart as well as his third top-ten single. it also topped the rap songs chart making it Drake's second #1 on that chart. This was the tenth consecutive top 40 single for Eminem. The song has sold over one million downloads."Forever" failed to enter the Top 40 on the UK Singles Chart, but did manage to peak at #43 after strong downloads. The song then began to drop out of the UK Singles Chart, but on the 10th January 2010, "Forever" climbed 7 places from #49 to #42, marking its highest peak to date. On 7 February 2010, "Forever" entered the Irish Singles Chart, reaching a current peak of #41.
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Category:2009 singles Category:Drake songs Category:Kanye West songs Category:Eminem songs Category:Lil Wayne songs Category:Billboard Rap Songs number-one singles Category:Music videos directed by Hype Williams Category:Songs produced by Boi-1da Category:Songs written by Eminem Category:Songs written by Kanye West Category:Songs written by Lil Wayne This text is licensed under the Creative Commons CC-BY-SA License. This text was originally published on Wikipedia and was developed by the Wikipedia community.
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