A$AP Rocky opened up about his strained relationship with Drake after fans speculated he was taking shots at the five-time Grammy winner on his fourth studio album, Don’t Be Dumb.
On Wednesday (January 21), the “Helicopter” rapper sat down with Apple Music’s Ebro Darden to talk about the project and his fallout with Drizzy, whom he once supported on the 2012 Club Paradise Tour. Drake also teamed up with Rocky on the 2012 hit “Fuckin’ Problems,” alongside 2 Chainz. However, the tension between the two has long been rumored to involve Rihanna, who shares three children with Rocky and previously dated Drake.
Around the 15-minute mark of the interview, Rocky likened rap feuds to WWE storylines, making it clear that what’s going on between him and Drake isn’t “real smoke.”
“I just don’t fuck with him,” the Harlem rapper said. “We was once friends. I feel like it’s over females. I feel like he wasn’t happy and he expressed that.”
Rocky added, “And I think at some certain point when everybody getting older and it’s just like you supposed to be moving on, for you to still be picking at a female and all that, that’s soft to me.”
While Rocky didn’t mention his longtime partner by name, many have assumed his remarks were directed at her, especially since Drake has seemingly thrown shade her way on past records like “Fear of Heights.”
With Don’t Be Dumb, Rocky says he’s finally speaking on “a few people” after staying quiet for nearly ten years. “I’m talking to whoever feel like I’m talking to ’em,” he said. “I do think that is petty and like I said, it’s it’s enough money, it’s enough women, it’s enough fame, spotlights to go around. We not really tripping off nothing, but is it real smoke? It could never be.”
Rocky also appeared to take shots at Drake — and possibly Travis Scott, who previously dated Rihanna — on the Don’t Be Dumb track “Stole Ya Flow,” which the Bajan singer cosigned on Instagram.
“First you stole my flow, so I stole yo’ bitch,” Rocky raps on the song, later adding, “N****s getting BBLs, lucky we don’t body shame / Throwing dirt on Rocky name, turn around and copy game.”
Rocky also touched on the record during an appearance on The New York Times podcast Popcast, suggesting that Drake was the one who kicked things off by “sending shots” first.
