Drake Talks Macklemore, Relationship With Rihanna, His Grammy Boycott & Yeezus In Rolling Stone

Drizzy Drake is so not happy with Rolling Stone!

This week, his feature story with the magazine dropped, and inside Drake made controversial comments about Kanye’s Yeezus album as well as Macklemore’s text to Kendrick Lamar that made it’s rounds across the net. In the feature (which was supposed to have been a cover story), he also revealed why he skipped this year’s Grammys, dished on his platonic friendship with Rihanna and also revealed his thoughts on Beyoncé’s new album.

Catch a few key highlights and Drake’s response below:

On Macklemore posting his text to Kendrick Lamar online after he won the Best Rap Album Grammy
That sh-t was wack as f–k. I was like, ‘You won. Why are you posting your text message? Just chill. Take your W, and if you feel you didn’t deserve it, go get better — make better music. It felt cheap. It didn’t feel genuine. Why do that? Why feel guilt? You think those guys would pay homage to you if they won?”

This is how the world works: He made a brand of music that appealed to more people than me, Hov, Kanye and Kendrick. Whether people wanna say it’s racial, or whether it’s just the fact that he tapped into something we can’t tap into. That’s just how the cards fall. Own your s—t.[…]To name just Kendrick? That sh-t made me feel funny. No, in that case, you robbed everybody. We all need text messages!”

On the Grammys
It becomes more apparent how irrelevant our genre is to them. They were trying to utilize me to sell the show, requesting me to come and perform ‘Hold On, We’re Going Home –but they didn’t nominate me for anything. They’re calling me, emailing me every day to do some elaborate performance and bring them viewers but I didn’t get a nomination for Album Of The Year. I didn’t get a nomination for Song Of The Year.

On Beyoncé’s new album:
[A member of Beyonce’s team flew to Chicago where he was performing to play him the ‘Mine’ video for his approval.] I said, ‘That’s cool’. [She closed her laptop real fast, walked off and got on the phone.] ‘By the time I came off stage, the album was out! Beyonce was like, ‘I’m so sorry I couldn’t tell you!’ [The article states that Drake admired Beyoncé for the way she released her album.]

On Rihanna
She’s the ultimate fantasy. I mean, I think about it. Like ‘Man, that would be good’. We have fun together, she’s cool and s–t. But we’re just friends, she’s my dog for life.

On not having a girlfriend
I’m not after p—y like I was three years ago, when I was trying to make up for all the years when no girl would talk to me. But I haven’t met somebody that makes everybody else not matter.”

On Kanye’s Yeezus album
There were some real questionable bars on there. Like that ‘Swaghili‘ line? Come on, man. Even Fabolous wouldn’t say some sh-t like that.

When the quotes leaked, Drake immediately hopped on Twitter to deny the saying anything negative about Kanye or Fabolous. He also revealed that he was supposed to be on the cover of Rolling Stone versus a feature story and blamed the media for misquoting him.

I never commented on Yeezus for my interview portion of Rolling Stone. They also took my cover from me last minute and ran the issue. I’m disgusted with that. RIP to Phillip Seymour Hoffman. All respect due. But the press is evil. I’m done doing interviews for magazines. I just want to give my music to the people. That’s the only way my message gets across accurately.

In context, this is how his comments on Kanye were presented in the interview, which doesn’t make it sound half as bad as when the comments are taken out of context:

When Drake hears a song he wishes he’d made, ‘I get physically sick,’ he says, adding, ‘It doesn’t happen often.’ It happened in 2011, when he heard Jay Z and Kanye West’s ‘Niggas In Paris,’ from Watch The Throne. ‘I was like, ‘How did I not think of that? The song directly inspired ‘Started From The Bottom’ he says, challenging him to come up with a rapped hook just as catchy as a sung one.

Drake is on good terms with Jay Z and Kanye. ‘Kanye and me are friends; we’re plotting on getting some work done together.’ […]

Their patched up friendship doesn’t exclude criticism. For instance, Drake says that he was ambivalent about Kanye’s last album Yeezus. ‘There were some real questionable bars on there. Like that ‘Swaghili‘ line? Come on, man. Even Fabolous wouldn’t say some sh-t like that.’ But Drake says he speaks from a bedrock of deep respect: ‘Kanye’s the reason why I’m here. I love everything about that guy.’

Drake also dishes on how much he made from Degrassi, his father’s past troubles with the law, and his new home (which was the screensaver on his desktop for years) in the new issue. It’s a very good read overall.

Read the entire article over at Rolling Stone