A$AP Rocky held nothing back on “Stole Ya Flow,” a song on his new album Don’t Be Dumb that references Rihanna and sounds a lot like a Drake diss track — something the New York native actually addressed on a recent podcast.
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In the New York Times Popcast posted Thursday (Jan. 14) — one day prior to the release of Rocky’s new LP — he acknowledged that he was already prepared for the internet to assume that Drizzy was the target of the antagonistic bars on “Stole Ya Flow.” Because, after all: “I think we all know,” he said of the track’s subject.
When pressed for what happened between himself and Drake, Rocky said, “I started just seeing people who started out as friends and just became foes, seemed like they was unhappy for you and started sending shots.”
“I think that’s what led to any of our misunderstandings … it really ain’t smoke,” he continued of the Toronto artist, saying he doesn’t see a resolution happening between them. “It don’t even need to be. For what?”
“It’s for whoever feel like it’s about them,” Rocky added after hosts Joe Coscarelli and Jon Caramanica once again asked if “Stole Ya Flow” was about Drake.
That night, Don’t Be Dumb hit streaming services, revealing just what Rocky needed to get off his chest on “Stole Ya Flow.” In the lyrics, he taunts, “First you stole my flow, so I stole yo b—h … My baby mama Rihanna, so we unbothered.”
RiRi and Drizzy sparked dating rumors multiple times in the late 2000s, early 2010s — but the latter has been open about having more serious feelings for the Fenty mogul that he says she didn’t reciprocate. In 2018, Rihanna told Vogue that she and Drake didn’t “have a friendship” any longer, five years after which Drake appeared to shade her and Rocky — who coupled up in 2020 — on album For All the Dogs.
Elsewhere on “Stole Ya Flow,” Rocky seemingly drops other hints that the song is about Drake by spitting, “He just a sensitive n—a, still in his feelings” as well as “N—as gettin’ BBLs, lucky we don’t body shame.” “In My Feelings” is the title of Drake’s 2018 10-week Billboard Hot 100 chart-topper, and the BBL dig may refer to Metro Boomin’s diss track “BBL Drizzy.”
Billboard has reached out to reps for Rocky and Drake for comment.
Rocky and Drake used to be friends as well as collaborators, with “F–kin’ Problems” featuring Drizzy, Kendrick Lamar and 2 Chainz earning Rocky his first top 10 hit on the Hot 100 in 2013. By the time For All the Dogs dropped three years ago, though, their friendship was in the past, with Rocky telling Billboard in his 2024 cover story that he had “bigger fish to fry than some p—y boys” dissing him in the studio.
“You got to realize, certain n—as was throwing shots for years,” he said at the time, which was also around when Lamar and Drake’s feud kicked into high gear. “I ain’t in the middle of that s–t.”
Watch Rocky’s full interview on Popcast and listen to “Stole Ya Flow” below.
