Drake responded to accusations of “pretend abs” and a surgically enhanced butt.
Throughout a Tuesday, September 2, look on the “Not This Once more with Bobbi Althoff” podcast, the rapper, 38, addressed each rumors individually when quizzed by Althoff, 28.
Addressing his abdominals, which had been put beneath the microscope by social media customers in June after Drake shared a shirtless mirror selfie, first, the “Know Your self” hitmaker mentioned that whereas he didn’t have “a process accomplished” he was positive that ab surgical procedure “was a factor.”
With out lacking a beat, Althoff requested, “Why have you learnt that?” to which Drake, whose actual identify is Aubrey Drake Graham, mentioned uncertainly, “As a result of folks do it on a regular basis.”
He then raised fan hypothesis relating to his butt, particularly rumors of potential Brazilian Butt Carry (BBL) surgical procedure sparked by a 2024 diss observe titled “BBL Drizzy” by Metro Boomin. “Folks additionally say I acquired a BBL. They name me BBL Drizzy,” Drake mentioned. “I don’t know if my wagon seemed loopy after I walked in. Did it?” (The observe is extensively believed to be a response to Drake’s seeming diss in opposition to Metro Boomin on his personal 2024 observe “Household Issues.”)
Althoff admitted in response that she didn’t “look” at Drake’s physique when he entered the podcast’s filming. “So then, like, if it didn’t stand out to you,” Drake concluded earlier than steering the dialog again to his abs and the shirtless selfie he posted.
“I’d come from the health club, I used to be sweaty in that pic, perhaps I went on Facetune and, like, put particulars up. Simply being trustworthy,” Drake defined. “Perhaps I, like, heightened the saturation. I feel I hit it too arduous. I hit it too arduous. They don’t appear to be that.”
Followers shared their disbelief within the feedback part of the controversial selfie, which was a part of a carousel of photos posted by Drake. One fan wrote, “Ordered abs from temu n forgot so as to add shoulders n tri lol,” whereas one other commented, “Folks laughing however don’t know chest and shoulders are arriving in a distinct field in 2 weeks.”
The candid interview went dwell lower than one week after Drake was seen opening up about engaged on the Canadian teen drama collection Degrassi earlier than his music profession took off.
In a Wednesday, August 27, trailer for the documentary No matter It Takes, footage of Drake sharing an onscreen kiss with Lauren Collins, who performed Paige on the present, was proven. (Drake starred as Jimmy Brooks from 2001 to 2008.)
“She needed to be one among my first kisses for positive,” Drake was heard saying after the footage rolled. “Rattling, I by no means thought of it like that.”