Drake lately opened as much as Lil Yachty about some previous lyrical choices that he “could’ve done without.” Specifically, he acknowledged how his choice to name-drop ladies—together with ladies like Ki-Ki, Bria & Nebby—in songs isn’t one thing that he’s notably pleased with.
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Drake Says His References Are ‘Never With Ill Intent’
The topic got here up throughout Episode 1 of FUTUREMOOD’s “A Moody Conversation” sequence. While chit-chatting on a picturesque seashore, Lil Yachty introduced up a line in “Weston Road Flows” the place Drizzy proclaims that he “plan[s] to retire” at 35.
As he’s now 36 years previous and nonetheless firmly within the sport, Drake went on to say, “I hate hearing that s**t.” Oop! The “Rich Flex” rapper then proceeded to notice that, along with age-based traces, he additionally regrets the instances when he’s “said girls’ names in songs.”
“I think that and some times when I’ve said girls’ names in songs, maybe those are the two things that I look back on and I’m like, ‘Maybe I could’ve done without, like, s***ting on people for age or disrupting somebody’s life’”
Drake went on so as to add that, whereas his lyricism is “never with ill intent,” he is aware of that it finally comes all the way down to “the fact that [he] said it.”
“The lyrics are never with ill intent, but I had somebody tell me one time be like, ‘You know, it’s not necessarily what you’re saying about me, it’s the fact that you said it.’”
Drake Says He’s All About Honesty In His Music
As the dialog continued, the Toronto-bred artist referenced a dialogue that make clear the affect that these references have on the ladies’s lives, as they’re those who’re finally “left to pick up the pieces.”
“Just in the sense of, like, ‘You don’t know what it does to me. You don’t know who my boyfriend is at the time or you don’t know what my family knows and doesn’t know. And if you express any form of discontent for me in a song and call me by name, then all of a sudden I’m left to pick up the pieces in my own life that I’ve tried to build up for myself.’ So I’ve tried my best to stop doing that.”
However, Drizzy was positive to level out, “But I like to be honest in music too, so that one’s a push and pull.”
Humorously, after remarking that Drake “used to [name-drop] a lot,” Yachty revealed, “I used to think you were making girls’ names up.”
Despite Yachty’s suspicions, Drake clarified that he’s “never made a girl’s name up.”
You can try the total interview down under.
What do you consider Drake’s commentary, and are you right here for him name-dropping ladies in songs?