Camila Cabello gave Drake a song on her album because she felt ‘rebellious’

Fans will hear appearances from Drake on not one, but two tracks from Camila Cabello’s fourth studio album, C,XOXO.

The “Havana” singer, 27, opened up about making the project, released June 28, in a new cover interview with Billboardand revealed that the “Hotline Bling” rapper would feature on the song “Hot Uptown” and appear solo in an interlude titled “Uuugly.”

“Why does he have his own song? Because, selfishly, I just want to hear Drake on my own album,” Cabello said upon the release of “Uuugly,” on which she provides backing vocals. “I love it for me, it’s like this rebellious mood. Who says I can’t do that? It’s Drake talking his shit.”

Additional artists featured on C,XOXO include Playboi Carti, Lil Nas

Initially, the Fifth Harmony alum contacted him in an Instagram DM. “I showed him the album when I felt comfortable enough and he really liked it,” she said, adding that the collaboration “came from a non-transactional place.”

“He had this idea for a song called ‘Hot Uptown,’ and it was like I was in the city. I was in Miami,” Cabello explained.

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The Grammy-nominated musician had already discussed these collaborations in an interview on the Call her daddy podcast, where she spoke to the viral photos of his jet ski with the rapper in the Turks and Caicos Islands in December.

“Well, first of all, I wouldn’t say just vacation. It was vacation and work,” Cabello said of the photos. “But I will say, you know what? I love this man, I love him.”

At the time, she called their excursion a “friends trip.”

“I love him so much, and I really listened to him a lot during the process of writing my album, and I really thought he would like my album… So I sent him a message and I was like : ‘Hey, I’d love to play my album for you, honestly, I feel like you’d really like it because I listen to it a lot and I really feel like it, musically, in a lot of ways. respects, we like the same things,” Cabello said.

“It was such a surreal moment playing my songs to Drake,” she added on the podcast. “It’s another one of those things that’s like, wow, I never imagined this would happen. This is a dream. And he’s so generous and so kind.”