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In April, DJ Critical Hype made a lot of noise with a mixtape called The DAMN. Chronic that blended Kendrick Lamar vocals over Dr. Dre beats. The project blew up on social media and has racked up over four million plays since its release. The two worked together once on Drake's "Think Good Thoughts" from 2007's Comeback Season mixtape and he said more 9th Wonder beats would show up on his sophomore album, but that never materialized. As recently as this weekend, 9th Wonder tweeted admiration in the direction of Drake, but the two haven't collaborated since 2007. So, like he did on The DAMN. Chronic and Chance The Dropout before that, Critical Hype decided to imagine the collaboration himself and create an entire blend tape of Drake vocals over classic 9th Wonder beats.

"9th Wonder has a lot of soulful beats and Drake sounds amazing on them," Critical Hype says. Then, explaining why some of Drake's biggest songs didn't make the cut, he says, "The thing is, most 9th production is 90 bpms and up so I wasn't able to mix a lot of the slow Drake verses I wanted ('Versace,' 'Worst Behavior,' 'God's Plan,' etc). So I used a lot of mid-tempo and up-tempo Drake songs on this project."