Drake’s Alleged Ghostwriter Accuses Beyoncé and Nicki Minaj of Not Writing Their Own Songs

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If you know any diehard Barbz or Beygency members then don’t bother contacting them today, because they have some serious revenge to organize. Shi Wisdom, the songwriter behind many of Drake’s most famous verses, recently spoke to Noisey about allegedly being the female ghostwriter who sued Drizzy for unpaid work and homegirl also dropped some truth bombs about Nicki Minaj and Beyoncé not writing their own songs.

Wisdom was apparently not the woman who sued, and isn’t too interested in whether he writes his all his own stuff because that, friends, is just how things work.

To be honest with you, who cares if he doesn’t write his own stuff? It’s very evident that he’s an intelligent business person. Who in this industry writes their stuff all the time? I don’t know anybody who writes their stuff all the time that is a big artist, not one person. When you go into these meetings with these labels they tell you who is looking for songs, and it’s a bunch of people who you thought wrote their own songs.

And when she says nobody, you better believe she means it.

Everybody has writers, everybody has a team of people to put it together. Some of these people do write some of their songs, but do you really believe that Nicki Minaj writes all of her songs, with no help? To be a songwriter on a song all you have to do is contribute one word. By the time the “R.I.P.” record I did with Drake was finished, six writers including myself and him touched that song. That wasn’t the plan, but that’s what happens: Somebody comes in and says, “instead of saying ‘boy’ say ‘you.’” Now they’re a writer on the song, but that’s access. For the longest time Beyoncé didn’t write any of her records. I personally still don’t believe she’s written any of her records.

Hoo boy. Wisdom isn’t exactly the first person to ever point out that Bey doesn’t write all her own songs (here’s a fairly extensive summary.) Linda Perry slammed her just two months ago for stealing song credits. But implicating Minaj proves she’s not in the game to make friends. Talk about throwing a spanner in the cogs of the industry machine.

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