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Lately, it seems like Drake has been doing a fair amount of sub-posting and speaking on things just vaguely enough that people think they know who he’s talking to and what he’s trying to say about them—but also, maybe not.
Recently, the “Hotlight Bling” rapper posted to his Instagram story the infamous photo of R&B singer Solange after she put hands on Jay-Z in an elevator in 2014. Folks on social media are wondering if the post had anything to do with Kendrick Lamar headlining next year’s Super Bowl halftime show, which a lot of people have speculated was a decision made unilaterally by Jay-Z. (It wasn’t, but there tends to be no point in introducing facts into discussions like these.)
Drake real petty for posting these pictures of Solange after the elevator incident😂 n just to follow it up with a pic of Aaliyah, what’s going on in Babylon pic.twitter.com/V3shydUKW2
— RICH VENDETTA 🎭 (@richvendetta8) October 7, 2024
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In fact, it doesn’t appear that Champagne Papi can do much of anything without people drawing connections back to his internet-exploding beef with K-Dot, and the Toronto artist isn’t dissuading the rumor mill from running wild by being the opposite of candid when he speaks on whatever it is he’s going through as of late.
From Hot New Hip-Hop:
Still, Drake’s message here is pretty vague and mysteriously unclear, especially after his recent rant about fake friends. “One things about nostalgia, this party here?” he said at Toronto’s Nostalgia party. “My real friends are definitely in the building. But I’m going to tell you. You’re going to come to a point in life where people you thought were friends or people you thought were close to you, they might switch up. They might try to move funny with you. They might stab you in the back, they might do a lot of things to you. You’ll come to that realization, wherever you’re at in life. You’ve probably been there and you’ll be there again, that’s how life is. But look, sometimes, it’s you and you alone by yourself. Sometimes it’s you alone with your thoughts.”
Again, fans across social media speculated that Drake was speaking about “friends” who turned on him once it became overwhelmingly clear that Kendrick won the beef that exploded between the two emcees over the summer.
But who knows? Maybe Drake is just badly in need of a journal. Maybe the Solange incident just crossed his mind and he reflexively posted it on IG. Maybe he just knows how people get to talking and he needs a little attention. It might not have anything to do with Kendrick Lamar or Jay-Z at all.
Maybe we’ll never know.