Drake recently talked about the mentorship that Lil' Wayne gives to his artists on Young Money.

"I think the best thing about Wayne is that he doesn't really get too involved in us developing as artists, he doesn't give his input on how we should be, or how we should rap, or how we should dress. Wayne just gives us the opportunity. If you drop the ball, you drop the ball. But Wayne's gonna give you the setup. Wayne is gonna throw you the alley-oop - you just have to cut to the hoop and slam."

"With that being said, he really gives you the space and lets you become your own person, he respects artists that know about themselves. He doesn't want to shape us all. I don't really know who wants to do that anymore. That was like, in '96 or something, when labels would be like, you got to be like this. Wayne doesn't want to do that. Wayne wants us to thrive as the person we truly are, which is great."

Game recently happened to be in the same studio as Justin Timberlake, and they recorded a song together.  Check out this interview, where Game talks about the collabo and how he thinks one song with Justin can take R.E.D. from being a regular album to a Grammy-winning album.

I've had a lot of discussions with different music producers about how some times they find themselves staying locked in their rooms or studios making music.  I found this interesting piece on Alicia Keys, where she talks about how she was like that on her first album, but as she grew into the music, she slowly started to embrace having a more balanced life.

For all you producers out there putting in 12 hour work days, take a break.  It'll do good for you.

I thought this was video for Timbaland and Drake was going to be behind the scenes of the recording process in the studio, but it's actually behind the scenes of the video shoot.  It's still worth a play IMO.