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As Drake continues to mend from a July knee injury, the rapper says he's going a bit stir crazy being confined to his home in Toronto.
Although he is able to walk around, the artist tells Billboard.com that the rehab period has caused his writing to slow down considerably.
"Sitting at home in your apartment and having a doctor come over every day and eating healthy and going to the gym -- there's not much of a rap album to be made off that," he continued. "I have to get my inspiration and start seeing things and going to dinners and meeting people again and just finding stories to tell for this album. I'm trying to make something timeless."
Drake, who suffered a torn ACL in July following a stage accident, said he's planning to head out to Los Angeles on Oct. 11 for more writing and recording on his upcoming album, tentatively titled "Thank Me Later" and due out in February.
The plan is to release the set's first single, "Shut it Down," in the near future, though it might not come out until January. Produced by The-Dream, the track is described by Drake as "an R&B song...It's sexy. It's slow, but there's an energy to it. I rap on it. Me and Dream both sing on it. It's cool."
It also has a "message that's never really been explored by male singers," he says. "This song is sort of like an anthem for women, like pre-the club. It's like an anthem for you to be at your house with your girlfriends getting ready, what you listen to before you get there. It's a song for the non-famous woman to make her feel special and just to let you know that even though I'm up here and have the option to mingle wtih these 'upper-echelon' women, if you will, that sometimes I'd rather be with the girl from back home or a student or a girl that works at Wal-Mart. They don't have to be a star or rich or anything like that; that's kind of the gist of the song. It's an empowering song for all women."
