I pulled my weight when it came to my pen.

This line is authentic and well documented: Drake said it during his December 2019 "Rap Radar" interview with Elliott Wilson and Brian "B.Dot" Miller, responding once more to the ghostwriting accusations that had dogged him since Meek Mill's 2015 claims and Quentin Miller's disputed contributions to the mixtape "If You're Reading This It's Too Late." The full remark runs, "I pulled my weight when it came to my pen. Anybody that knows me knows that my strongest talent is writing... that's why people ask me to write songs for them" — his way of drawing a line between collaboration and being ghostwritten. It is not a song lyric, which is why it doesn't surface in his catalog, but the exact wording is corroborated verbatim by Complex, Billboard, Variety and iHeartRadio, all citing the same recorded interview. Because the trail leads to a dated primary-source recording in Drake's own voice, we regard it as verified rather than merely attributed.