July 14, 2025
The Canadian rapper has not forgiven the Lakers participant for showing at Kendrick Lamar’s pop-up live performance final 12 months.
As soon as once more, proving that Drake is “Not Like Us,” the Canadian celebrity has lately had a tattoo of his former buddy, LeBron James, changed with a tattoo of the present NBA MVP, Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder’s Shai Gilgeous-Alexander.
LeBron and Drake shared a decades-long friendship, however ever since Drake’s gorgeous defeat to Compton’s Kendrick Lamar in, maybe, one among hip-hop’s greatest rap battles, the “Thank Me Later” recording artist has taken photographs on the future NBA Corridor of Famer. The meat is alleged to have developed after Lamar’s pop-up live performance in California through the peak of the battle, when LeBron, together with many others, attended the efficiency.
In a transfer that Drake, who has been labeled an EMO (emotional) rapper since his debut into hip-hop, has taken LeBron’s look as disloyal and supposedly anticipated anybody he was buddies with to take his facet within the disagreement between the 2 rappers. Drake has taken photographs at many others, together with Sacramento Kings’ DeMar DeRozan, who was an important buddy to the Canadian when he performed for the Toronto Raptors.
Earlier this 12 months, Drake launched a music titled “Combating Irish,” the place he disses a number of heads, particularly LeBron, on the music. For individuals who don’t know, LeBron attended St. Vincent-St. Mary Excessive Faculty in Akron, Ohio, and the basketball workforce’s identify was the Combating Irish, so the hypothesis was that the reference was directed particularly at LeBron.
This newest motion seems to cement the lack of friendship standing between the 2, as Drake was seen with the brand new tattoo, indicating that he’s now a fan of the present NBA “it” man, Gilgeous-Alexander.
Drake is hilarious man lmaoooo
He actually coated his up LeBron James tattoo and changed it with an SGA one 😭 pic.twitter.com/VnacfdYxtd
— Hater Report (@HaterReport_) July 12, 2025
He reignited his feud with former buddies in his newest music, “What Did I Miss?”, nonetheless referencing the pop-up live performance that came about virtually a 12 months in the past on the Kia Discussion board in Inglewood, California, on June 19, 2024. If holding a grudge had a face, it will present up as Drake.
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