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by pimlottc 692 days ago
> For example, you can see just the songs that Paul McCartney wrote (turns out he wrote a track for Drake called Champagne Poetry in 2021... who knew).

Unexpected writing credits like this usually indicate sampling. In this case [0], Drake sampled a song [1] that sampled another song [2] that was a cover of a Beatles song [3].

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champagne_Poetry#Samples_and_c...

1: "Navajo" by Masego

2: "Michelle" by The Singers Unlimited’

3: "Michelle" by The Beatles

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fun fact!