Drake says he has no plans to avoid Los Angeles, even with his ongoing tension with West Coast rap icon Kendrick Lamar.
Reuniting with Bobbi Althoff on her new podcast, Not This Again, around the 1:08:00 mark, the five-time Grammy winner was chatting about travel when Althoff abruptly brought up L.A.
Last year, Drizzy and Kendrick traded diss records, culminating in “Not Like Us,” which topped the Billboard Hot 100 for multiple weeks. In February, the track swept every Grammy category it was nominated in, and following the win, it was performed during Kendrick’s Super Bowl LIX Apple Music Halftime show. Months earlier, Drake filed a defamation lawsuit against Universal Music Group over “Not Like Us,” also naming platforms like Spotify and iHeartRadio for allegedly inflating its streams.
When Althoff asked if he has a “special place” for him and his “rich” friends to travel, Drake said he wants to “come back to LA.”
“Are you scared away from L.A.?” Althoff pressed.
“Wow. Spicy,” Drake said, before repeating her question. “No, I’m not.”
When the podcaster pressed Drake on why he hasn’t brought his tour back to L.A., he pointed to his fifth headlining run, It’s All a Blur, which staged two shows in August 2023.
“I did, by the way. “When all that happened. I [had] just finished an American tour,” Drake continued. “And so I got to do another one, you know, they don’t happen like every [year].”
Since his public falling out with Kendrick, Drake has largely focused on overseas dates in Australia and Europe, most recently helming a weekend-long Wireless Festival takeover.
