"This is my fucking moment to say if I wanted to rap all the time, really rap, I would. But I also love to make music. I′ll do this for you right now," Drake told GQ in his July issue cover story, titled "How to Drake It in America." "But it′s for me, too. It′s my story... I′m trying to get back to that kid in the basement. To say what he has to say. And I′m trying to make it last."

Drake′s third studio album, Nothing Was The Same, drops on September 24.