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Julia Wolf went from a relatively unknown artist to notching a Drake collaboration seemingly overnight. The emerging singer joined the Zach Kang Show on Monday (Oct. 27), where she detailed how a Drake Instagram follow and DM led to them eventually collaborating on “Dog House” in September.

“We were freaking out, it was like 6 in the morning… It’s 6 a.m. and Tanner’s waking me up [at] 6 in the morning — ‘Champagnepapi followed you!’” she recalled. “Then it’s freaking Drake, and he DMs me lyrics of ‘In My Room.’ How do you have a regular day?”

Wolf explained that it was actually someone else who put him on and requested a Julia Wolf song when he was DJing for friends at a club.

“Drake was DJing with a group of five or six people at the back of a club,” she said. “He was playing all sorts of music and then this one girl, who was a friend of a friend, went up to him and was like, ‘Can you play ‘In My Room’ by Julia Wolf?’ He said he played it and stopped everything and reached out to me then and there. It was so cool. He’s a super open-minded guy.”

Wolf immediately got to writing after Drake asked her about any unreleased demos she had lying around that he could possibly use.

“That first day he was like, ‘Send me some demos.’ I had no demos to give him, so I went to my room. Literally just writing anything I can over [sic] loops,” she said. “I’m like, ‘What can I possibly say that Drake can resonate with?’ He’s resonating with ‘In My Room,’ he’s loving the album, he’s saying, ‘This is so me.’”

Wolf continued: “Out of the four or five things was ‘Dog House.’ It’s actually part of a larger song. The part in ‘Dog House’ was the chorus I had at the end. I sent it and it was immediate. He was like, ‘This is the one, this is my life. This is our song.’”

Plenty of time went by and Wolf was left in the dark as she had no idea what she sent would be turned into. Eventually, that changed on Sept. 9 when Drake’s “Dog House” arrived featuring YEAT with a photo of Wolf as the cover art.

The BYNX-produced track debuted at No. 54 on the Billboard Hot 100 and cracked the top 10 of the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.

Watch the full interview below. Talk about Drake starts just shy of the 39-minute mark.

Juvenile says he’s responsible for 50 Cent‘s legendary Shady Records deal — and he says 50 can attest to it.

In an interview with Nyla Symone, Juvenile explained how after 50’s near-fatal shooting, he became a pariah of the music industry and that no one wanted to work with him.

“I got 50 Cent his record deal with Eminem,” Juvenile explained. “Ask 50, he’ll tell you, yeah, Juve was the one. 50 couldn’t really go to the studio at the time, and I was one of the first cats with a studio bus, so I let him record on my bus, him, [Tony] Yayo, and [Lloyd] Banks.”

Juve said that Eminem invited him to a music video set while filming for D12 in New York City, and that he brought along former G-Unit president Sha Money XL.

“When I went over there with Sha Money, my first thing was telling him the type of music Em doing and the type of music 50 doing with the diss thing…that’s going to work if he go with him. And it worked,” Juvenile explained, adding that 50 even wrote about Juve’s role in his book, though didn’t specify which one.

Billboard has reached out to 50 Cent’s team for comment.

50 Cent actually recently joked that he’s finally leaving G-Unit, claiming its because Tony Yayo took too long to diss Jim Jones and Memphis Bleek. In a video posted to 50 Cent’s Instagram, the mogul is seen making some jokes while aboard a private jet with Tony Yayo about leaving G-Unit.

I’ve been doing some soul searching, and I think I want out the group, OK?” Fif told Yayo.

“If anything, you just kicking us out the group,” Yayo responded.

“Took too long to respond to Jimmy and Memphis Bleek,” 50 Cent continued. “I’m saying, n—as is talking mad sh–, though. You not even like that.”

Check out a clip from Juvenile’s interview below.