ASAP Rocky discussed his tension with Drake after fans speculated that he was addressing the five-time Grammy winner on his fourth studio album, Don't Be Dumb.
On Wednesday (January 21), the "Helicopter" artist sat down with Apple Music's Ebro Darden to discuss his new LP and his rift with Drizzy, whom he supported on the 2012 Club Paradise Tour. Drake was also collaborated with Rocky on his 2012 single "Fuckin' Problems," which also featured 2 Chainz. But the rappers may also have beef over Rihanna, whom Rocky shares three children with, and Drake previously dated.
Around the fifteen-minute mark, Rocky compared hip-hop beefs to the WWE, but said that the issues between him and Drizzy aren't "real smoke."
"I just don't fuck with him," the Harlem rapper continued. "We was once friends. I feel like it's over females. I feel like he wasn't happy and he expressed that."
Rocky continued, "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."
Although Rocky didn't directly call out his longtime partner, some can estimate that his comments were about her, considering that Drake possibly shaded her on past songs like "Fear of Heights."
With Don't Be Dumb, Rocky says he's finally addressed "a few people" after nearly a decade of silence. "I'm talking to whoever feel like I'm talking to 'em," Rocky continued. "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 took aim at Drake, and possibly Travis Scott, who also dated Rihanna, on Don't Be Dumb track "Stole Ya Flow," which the Bajan vocalist cosigned on Instagram.
"First you stole my flow, so I stole yo' bitch," Rocky rapped on the song, adding, "N****s getting BBLs, lucky we don't body shame / Throwing dirt on Rocky name, turn around and copy game."
Rocky also spoke about the song on The New York Times podcast Popcast, insinuating that Drake was the first to start "sending shots."