Songwriter

Quentin Miller

Atlanta, Georgia

Quentin Miller is an Atlanta-based rapper and songwriter who became the most-discussed figure of the 2015 reference-track controversy that surrounded Drake's If You're Reading This It's Too Late mixtape. Miller had been working inside the OVO orbit through Meek Mill's Dreamchasers camp earlier in the decade, and reference recordings of his vocals over beats that later appeared as Drake songs were leaked online in July 2015. Meek Mill publicly framed the leaks as evidence of ghostwriting on a series of tweets that triggered the months-long Drake/Meek exchange. Miller himself responded on Tumblr with a long open letter that rejected the word "ghostwriter" and characterized his contributions as co-writing — a creative collaboration he said he was proud of and not embarrassed by. He also stated he had never met Drake in person despite the working relationship, which deepened the public fascination with how modern rap credits are assembled. The Drake camp's response was to release "Charged Up" and "Back to Back," while Miller's name was added to writing credits on tracks that had previously listed Drake alone. Outside the Drake universe Miller has released his own projects (Q4, From a Distance, Gemini) and continued to write and record in Atlanta. His public profile remains closely tied to a single 2015 news cycle, but his stated framing — that he co-wrote rather than ghost-wrote — is the version of the story he has held to in subsequent interviews. Within any responsible Drake encyclopedia he sits at the center of an authorship question the project does not try to resolve.