A$AP Rocky opened up about where he thinks things went sour as far as his relationship with Drake, and the Harlem rapper pointed to a chain of events following Drizzy’s appearance at Yams Day 2020.
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“I thought [Drake] was my mans. I thought he was my dude,” Rocky told Akademiks in an interview posted Saturday (Jan. 24). “I first met him and he seemed embraceful and s—t. We went on tour with him. I think when I got with [Rihanna], he started throwing shots out of nowhere. I just woke up and felt like he was throwing subs and s—t.”
Akademiks assumed they were beefing over women, which Rocky agreed with, as Drake dated Rihanna in the first half of the 2010s. Ak even brought up the history of Rocky allegedly being intimate with Sophie Brussaux, who later became the mother of Drake’s son, Adonis, in 2017.
“I’m not the first n—a that f—ked my girl or my baby mother or my wife,” Rocky fired back. “Somebody pre-dates that. Get off that sucker s—t. What we talking about right now? Sound like some female s—t. We sound like females talking about females … N—as be too insecure dwelling on stupid s—t.”
Rocky and Drake had a close relationship in the early 2010s. Drizzy invited Rocky on the Club Paradise Tour in 2012, and the pair ended up teaming up on Rocky’s Billboard Hot 100 top 10 hit “F–kin’ Problems” alongside 2 Chainz and Kendrick Lamar later that year.
The Mob frontman pointed to Yams Day 2020 as a turning point in their relationship, which saw Drake pull up to the event paying homage to A$AP Yams and gifted Rocky a chain of his late friend, who passed away in 2015.
“That n—a got me a Yams chain. Like, you my brother. I still got the chain, I still cherish it. He remembers Yams. He came to Yams Day he was there,” Rocky recalled. “That’s 2020, gangsta. Me and shorty was locked in. Everything was subsequent after that. That’s where all the shots started happening. That’s when I started seeing n—s saying funny s—t.”
He also dispelled the notion of ever taking shots at Drake in his music before 2020. “Never,” Rocky emphatically stated. “I don’t move like that.”
The rapper, who released Don’t Be Dumb on Jan. 16, explained that he only inserted himself in the Drake-Kendrick feud in 2024 because he felt Drizzy was sending shots at Rihanna. “The only reason I said something was because he took a shot at my girl,” he said.
Rocky also expressed regret for dissing Drake on Future and Metro Boomin’s “Show of Hands.” “I said what I said, and I shouldn’t have because it was petty. And I was being messy by putting another woman,” Rocky admitted. “Saying something about another woman — that’s corny.”
Fans speculated that Drake took shots at RiRi on 2023’s “Fear of Heights,” which landed on the OVO rapper’s For All the Dogs album. On the It’s All a Blur Tour, Drake let the crowd perform his lyrics to the Rihanna-assisted “Work. “I don’t sing this song anymore,” he told a 2024 audience. “You can sing it for me.”
Rocky actually mocked Drake’s explanation of not performing his Rihanna collabs with a funny impression of the 6 God in the interview.
Rocky etched another chapter in his feud with Drake on Don’t Be Dumb‘s “Stole Ya Flow,” which refers to RiRi. “First you stole my flow, so I stole yo b—h … My baby mama Rihanna, so we unbothered,” he raps.
Don’t Be Dumb debuted atop the Billboard 200 in a tightly contested battle for the No. 1 spot with 123,000 equivalent album units in the United States in the week ending Jan. 22, according to Luminate.
Watch the full interview between Rocky and Akademiks below.
