A$AP Rocky reveals why his friendship with Drake ended: 'It’s about females'

It feels like we haven’t heard a proper update on Drake since the Kendrick Lamar saga, and now, just when we thought the drama cupboard was empty, A$AP Rocky is here to stir the pot again.

In a recent chat with Apple Music’s Ebro Darden, the “Punk Rocky” rapper didn’t exactly deny the whispers, but he did serve up just enough tea to get everyone talking.

Ebro asked Rocky if there was “really an issue” with Drake, and Rocky’s response was delightfully vague: “Please do.”

Fans had already been speculating that Rocky’s track "Stole Ya Flow" from his newly dropped album "Don’t Be Dumb" (Yikes, what a title)  was throwing shade Drake’s way.

Lyrics like “You been stealin’ flows, tryna play my part” had Twitter in meltdown mode. Coincidence? Sure, if you ignore the history.

Now, let’s remember that Drake and Rihanna go way back, I'm talking red-hair Riri, "Umbrella", and early 2010s vibes. The kind of history that lingers, even if everyone’s moved on… kind of.

Both Rocky and Drake have had long-term ties with Rihanna, and Rocky is very clear about why the friendship fizzled.

“We were once friends," the rapper said, adding that he believes their fallout is "over females".

"I feel like he wasn’t happy and he expressed that," 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.”

Drake’s 2023 album "For All the Dogs" sparked its own kind of drama long before Rocky brought the tea to the table.

On the song “Fear of Heights”, Drake drops lines that had fans convinced he was talking about Rihanna and her relationship with Rocky, even though he never names names.

In the opening verse, he raps, “Why they make it sound like I’m still hung up on you? That could never be / Gyal can’t ruin me / Better him than me / Better it’s not me”, nodding to Rihanna’s album "Anti".

Later, he continues, “And the sex was average with you… / I’m anti ’cause I had it with you / I had way badder bitches than you, TBH / Yeah, that man, he still with you, he can’t leave you / Y’all go on vacation, I bet it’s Antilles” - a line fans instantly connected to her Barbadian roots and current life with Rocky.

Rocky was also quick to add, for anyone thinking this is a full-blown feud: “I think hip hop tactics and beefs is, like, WWF. It’s like wrestling all the way… but this thing between us, it’s not real smoke.

"I didn’t put out an album to really say something back.” Aka he’s trolling enough to get attention, but no actual punches are being thrown.

If nothing else, it’s entertaining, and we’ll be watching to see if Drake responds or just quietly keeps collecting his streams.