NEED TO KNOW
- A$AP Rocky has addressed his alleged feud with Drake
- Both rappers have been romantically linked to Rihanna, who shares three children with the Don’t Be Dumb artist
- “I do think that it’s petty,” the father of three said of the speculated beef
A$AP Rocky is clarifying where his relationship with Drake stands.
In a new interview with Apple Music’s Ebro Darden published Wednesday, Jan. 21, the radio personality, 50, and the “Punk Rocky” rapper, 37, discussed buzz about the musicians beefing, and how the issue came to be.
“I’m kinda asking this — I wanna know the inside,” Darden told his guest, who replied, “Please do.”
The former Hot 97.1 host asked A$AP Rocky if there was “really an issue” between him and the Canadian rapper, 39.
He also wanted to know if the situation was more “like wrestling when y’all are trolling us and rage baiting people” to possibly promote projects after fans speculated that the track “Stole Ya Flow” from A$AP Rocky’s recently released album Don’t Be Dumb was pointed at Drake.
“I think hip-hop tactics and beefs is, like, WWF. It’s like wrestling all the way, right? But this thing between us, it’s not real smoke,” A$AP Rocky replied.
“But I just don’t f–k with him,” he said.
The “F—in’ Problems” collaborators’ friendship has fizzled in recent years, as both artists have had long-term relationships with Rihanna.
“We were once friends,” A$AP Rocky told Darden, adding that he believes their fallout is “over females.”
“I feel like he wasn’t happy and he expressed that,” A$AP Rocky explained. “And I think at some certain point when everybody gettin’ older and it’s just like, you’re supposed to be moving on. For you to still be pickin’ at a female and all that, that’s soft to me. I didn’t put out an album, I didn’t put out music for me to really say something back.”
The rapper, whose real name is Rakim Athelaston Mayers, shares sons RZA, 3½, and Riot, 2, and daughter Rocki, whom they welcomed in September 2025, with the Fenty Beauty mogul, also 37.
She and Drake had an on-and-off relationship for nearly a decade, with him going as far as professing his love for her at the 2016 MTV VMAS, and him saying in a 2018 appearance on LeBron James’ talk show The Shop that he wanted to have children with Rihanna.
“First you stole my flow, so I stole yo’ bitch,” A$AP Rocky raps in “Stole Ya Flow,” later adding, “Now I’m a father, my bitch badder than my toddler / My baby mama Rihanna, so we unbothered.”
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Still, while speaking to Darden, A$AP Rocky said this of his new music: “It ain’t just about one person. I’m talkin’ to whoever. Whoever feels like I’m talkin’ to ‘em.
“And I do think that it’s petty … it’s enough money. It’s enough women. It’s enough fame, spotlights to go around,” he added. “But is it real smoke? It could never be.”
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