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Drake’s latest album contains jabs at a number of different artists and public figures – and a few have their very own selection phrases for the Canadian rapper.
Drake launched “Her Loss,” a 16-track collaboration with 21 Savage, on Friday. On one track, “Circo Loco,” he appears to suggest that Megan Thee Stallion’s allegations that she was shot by Tory Lanez have been false. In 2020, Megan acknowledged that she was shot within the foot by Lanez, who has been charged with felony assault with a firearm and pleaded not responsible.
“This b—- lie ‘bout getting pictures however she nonetheless a stallion,” Drake raps on the reduce.
On Twitter, Megan asked other artists to “cease utilizing my taking pictures for clout” shortly after the album was launched. She requested why it was acceptable to joke about girls being shot and appeared to check the response to her taking pictures to the continuing outcry over Kanye West’s antisemitic feedback.
“Able to boycott bout sneakers and garments however canine pile on a black girl when she say certainly one of y’all homeboys abused her,” she wrote.
Megan Thee Stallion has been vocal about critiquing the societal acceptance of violence towards Black girls, penning a New York Instances op-ed in 2020 that mirrored on her taking pictures and the intersection of sexism and racism.
And Megan isn’t the one public determine talking out towards Drake’s latest disses.
On “Center of the Ocean,” the album’s twelfth observe, the rapper throws a barb at Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, who married tennis celebrity Serena Williams in 2017.
“Sidebar, Serena, your husband a groupie,” the artist raps.
However in a Twitter thread about his new investments and enterprise success, Ohanian mentioned that being a groupie isn’t such a nasty factor.
“The explanation I keep successful is as a result of I’m relentless about being the best possible at no matter I do — together with being the most effective groupie for my spouse & daughter,” he wrote.
Williams responded to the tweet with a number of heart-covered emojis.
Drake is a longtime fan of Williams, attending her matches since not less than 2011. He additionally name-dropped her in his 2013 observe “Worst Habits.”