Drake: 'Working with Keys was the best'

Drake has claimed that his recording experience with Alicia Keys was "the best" of his life.

The rapper, who appears on the singer's 'Unthinkable' track from The Element Of Freedom, has insisted that his time spent with Keys is the most cherished of his career.

The 23-year-old told Rap-Up: "Alicia Keys reached out and she said she really wanted me to do something on her project but she wanted me to do me, not do an Alicia Keys record.

"And man, she gave me one of the best studio experiences in my life, like when I got there, instead of being like 'All right, here's the beat, get to work', [she said], 'Play me your favourite songs and let's battle. Let's battle. You play me your favourite record, we'll go one-for-one. You play me a record and I'll play you a record'. And everybody was in the studio and - it was turning into this heated party, we were all just loving music, you know?"

He added: "It almost like transitioned from great music to making a song, no one even noticed it but she started playing keys and I just started writing melodies and we came up with a song that I think could really be a big record for her song. I wrote most of the record and she produced it... It was probably one of the best moments of my career."

Drake recently revealed that Jay-Z, Lil Wayne and Young Jeezy will all be featured on his debut album Thank Me Later.