Fabolous: 'Drake inspired my mixtape'

Fabolous has claimed that rapper Drake inspired him to release a mixtape.

The New York rapper, who finished work on his upcoming There Is No Competition 2 mixtape, has acknowledged Drake for reminding him about the underground scene.

Speaking to MTV, Fabolous said: "I had stopped doing the mixtapes because I felt we lost. Between DJs slopping together tapes just to make tapes and some artists really just putting two or three [new] songs together and a bunch of old songs and throwing a mixtape out.

"Certain DJs making unofficial tapes where they are just grabbing leaked stuff or taking stuff and putting it over other beats. I thought the game got saturated, but in '09 and recently at the top of '10, you seen Cam drop joints. Wayne dropped a joint, of course, Drake's mixtape being infamous for being one of the best ones for '09. It put the fuel back in me to do the mixtape thing. I was focused on a whole other agenda. Just having so many shows took my mind off of it."