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The record of celebrities Drake insults on his newest album retains rising.
On Friday, the Canadian rapper launched Her Loss, his first collaborative venture with previously secret British rapper 21 Savage. The 2 musicians share the highlight for almost all of the album’s one-hour run time, nevertheless it’s Drake’s lyrics which have folks speaking right now, as a lot of his bars proceed to gnaw away at his good-guy persona.
On “Center of the Ocean,” Drake sneaks in a jab at his ex Serena Williams’ husband, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian.
“Sidebar, Serena, your husband a groupie,” Drake says earlier than a brief pause, presumably to spice up his level. “He declare we don’t acquired an issue, however no boo, it's such as you comin’ for sushi,” he continues, including a string of different lazy references to Japanese tradition.
Ohanian, who’s value an estimated $70 million, shot again at Drake in a Twitter thread Friday afternoon selling a narrative in The Info about his newest enterprise ventures.
“The explanation I keep profitable is as a result of I’m relentless about being the best possible at no matter I do—together with being the very best groupie for my spouse & daughter,” Ohanian wrote above a photograph of him and his daughter Alexis watching Williams from the stands. Williams coyly responded to her husband’s tweet with a sequence of heart-face emojis.
Drake first began thirsting over Williams on Twitter again in 2011, the identical 12 months he was noticed at a few of her matches. He finally name-dropped her in his 2013 monitor “Worst Conduct,” playfully bragging that he was so good at tennis he “may beat Serena when she playin’ together with her left.”
The pair was noticed sitting very shut to one another at a restaurant in Cincinnati in August 2015, hours after Williams received the Western & Southern Open within the Queen Metropolis. However on a remix of The Weeknd’s “Inform Your Mates” launched the next month, Drake alluded to a one-sided breakup with the bars, “The ball is in your court docket / No protection, no one’s retaining rating / No offense, however I’ve performed this earlier than / Possibly you'll be able to however you simply don’t care anymore.”
It’s unclear when their rumored romance fizzled out, however Williams and Ohanian had been engaged by December 2016 and acquired married the next November.
Williams and her husband will not be the one ones taking umbrage with a few of the lyrics on Her Loss. Megan Thee Stallion got here for Drake on Twitter on Friday, after he appeared to query her claims that rapper Tory Lanez shot her throughout an altercation in Hollywood again in 2020.
On the Her Loss monitor “Circo Loco,” Drake raps, “This bitch lie about getting shot however she nonetheless a stallion / She don’t even get the joke however she nonetheless smiling.”
Throughout a preliminary listening to final 12 months, a Los Angeles Police detective testified that Lanez advised Megan to “dance, bitch” as he fired at her toes. A legal trial towards Lanez has been delayed till December.
Drake’s double entendre prompted a livid Twitter thread from Megan, who warned, “And when the mf information come out keep in mind all y’all hoe ass favourite rappers that stood behind a Nigga that SHOT A FEMALE.”
Curiously, 21 Savage truly references Megan’s hit single “Savage” on the album opener “Wealthy Flex”—Megan is even credited as a author on the monitor—elevating questions over whether or not Drake truly meant to insult her.
In the meantime, budding New York MC Ice Spice additionally appeared to take one in every of Drake’s lyrics personally, although she wasn’t even known as out by identify. On the Her Loss monitor “BackOutsideBoyz,” Drake raps, “She a ten tryna rap, it’s good on mute.”
Spice, who shot to prominence with the track “Munch” again in August, tweeted: “a minimum of ima 10,” together with shrug and laughing emojis.