Key Insights
- Drake’s Reaction: Drake was surprised by Future’s unique style when he first heard him in a Toronto studio.
- Collaboration History: The two artists previously collaborated on the album What A Time To Be Alive.
- Beef Clarification: Future expressed confusion over any supposed beef between him and Drake, stating he was unaware of any conflict.
- Big Three Discussion: Future believes he deserves recognition in the Big Three conversation alongside Kendrick Lamar and J. Cole.
Drake has recalled his reaction to hearing Future for the first time.
Speaking in the documentary Magic City: An American Fantasy, Drake says: “The first time I ever heard Future, I was in some studio in Toronto. I was like ‘how high is this guy, this guy has to be high as fuck’. They were just on some next planet. Esco was telling me some stories about how he broke Future’s music in Magic City.”
Drake and Future were previously close collaborators, releasing the joint album What A Time To Be Alive.
The duo then appeared to fall out with a number of disses aimed at the 6 God featuring on Future and Metro Boomin’s We Don’t Trust You last year.
Drake recalls the first time he ever heard Future:
“I was just like, ‘This guy has to be high as f*ck.’”
(via Magic City: An American Fantasy)
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Later speaking to GQ, Future downplayed there ever being a beef despite the fact “Like That” kicked off the Drake-Kendrick Lamar feud.
He said: “There was a beef? I didn’t even know there was a beef. I didn’t know they had nothing going on. I ain’t never participated in rap battles, man.”
The Freebandz boss then admitted that he’s still “confused” by the fallout from Kendrick’s “Muthafuck the Big Three, n-gga, it’s just Big Me” line on “Like That,” which prompted lyrical rebuttals from Drake and J. Cole (who are widely considered to be part of the so-called Big Three alongside Kendrick).
According to Future, he belongs in that Big Three conversation and had more of a right to be upset than anybody.
“I’m supposed to be the one who gets mad; I’m still confused about that,” he said. “Nobody cares what I think. That’s what was so fucked up about the shit. To the point where I’m so player that I ain’t even said anything about how I feel about it.
“Like, why is everybody mad when he was talking about me on my song? So y’all just forgot about me, I ain’t part of this Big Three, I’m nobody on my song, man,” he added with “faux self-depreciation,” according to the interviewer.
“If I didn’t get mad, nobody should have gotten mad! If I would have been really mad about it and I made something out of it, then someone else could be like, Oh, I can make something else about it.
