On Instagram, Drake has responded to several negative comments made about him by Charlamagne tha God on a recent episode of the latter’s podcast, The Brilliant Idiots. During the episode, Charlamagne criticized Drake’s recent collaboration single with SZA, “Slime You Out.”
“What scares me — and it’s not a scare because Drake’s gonna be fine — Drake put out a song last Friday and … nobody cared. The Drake and SZA record,” Charlamagne said. “It came out last Friday, and people just started talking about the lyrics yesterday. ‘Cause I saw people posting about how he said something about, ‘Whipped and chained you like [American] slave.’”
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Earlier today, Drake posted a heated response to Charlamagne tha God on Instagram Stories. “Are you ok Lenard?? You kinda weirding me out g. Like you really obsessed with me or something for years like you look in the mirror and wish you saw my reflection type shit,” Drake wrote. “Whatever you gotta do to let it out I’m sure your 435 loyal fans will stand by you ya fucking goof.”
Drake also referred to Charlamagne as an “off-brand Morris Chestnut.” During the September 25 episode of The Breakfast Club, Charlamagne struck back again against Drake in a response to the “Hotline Bling” singer’s post on Instagram Stories, which was also shared online by hip-hop influencer DJ Akademiks. “Back in the day, I can say I was hating on Drake for fun. It was hilarious, at least to me,” Charlamagne stated. The bad blood between Drake and Charlamagne dates back to at least 2018.
During a recent conversation with Lil Yachty, Drake discussed how he is interested in making a “graceful exit” from the music industry. “Well, I think on a broader scale, I think I’m at the point now where I just wanna — I feel like maybe we talked about this the other day — but I feel like I’m kind of introducing the concept in my mind of a graceful exit,” Drake explained. “I’ll still be around to, you know, work with people or do a show here or there, but I’m not going to force myself to compete… So I guess that’s the one thing that I want for myself really badly.”
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