A Timeline of Drake & Rick Ross’ Relationship: Collabs, Feuds & A Lost Joint Album

Drake mirrored on receiving a co-sign from Rick Ross whereas gracing the quilt of XXL in 2010. He revealed that Rozay reached out about collaborating and it wouldn’t be lengthy till they locked in.

“I simply wish to make the music. For anybody that doesn’t consider in me, your favourite rappers do. They name me for hooks, options and all that,” he mentioned. “[Rick] Ross, Jeezy… For the people who don’t consider, the individuals that you just do consider in received love for me. That’s all that issues.”

Rick Ross and Drake got here out of the gates firing with the starry “Aston Martin Music” within the fall of 2010. The J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League-produced single (additionally that includes Chrisette Michele) served because the fourth off Rozay’s acclaimed Teflon Don LP and peaked at No. 30 on the Billboard Scorching 100.

Rick Ross didn’t waste a lot time in getting a second collaboration with Drake on the docket earlier than 2010 expired. Rozay and the 6 God sparred on the hard-hitting “Made Males,” which landed on the MMG boss’ Ashes to Ashes mixtape on Christmas Eve.

Rick Ross pulled as much as the second annual OVO Fest as Drake packed out Toronto’s Molson Amphitheater. There was loads of star energy within the constructing with performances from Rozay, J. Cole, Lil Wayne, Nas, The Weeknd and extra.

Drake gushed about working with Rick Ross in an interview with Leisure Weekly and teased the opportunity of doing a joint album with him down the road, which we realized was imagined to be titled Y.O.L.O.

“One of many individuals of the individuals I take pleasure in rapping with most on this enterprise is Rozay [Rick Ross],” he mentioned. “Me and him have talked about probably doing one thing after our albums comes out. I simply love making songs with him. Each time we make a track it simply appears to be one thing I really like listening to after the very fact after I’m in my automobile.”

Drake and Rozay locked in one other collaboration to warmth up the rollout heading into his anticipated Take Care album. The 40-produced monitor samples a Drizzy favourite in Sade, lifting her 1984 hit “I Will Be Your Pal.” “Free Spirit” discovered its approach onto streaming companies in 2019 as a part of the 6 God’s Care Package deal challenge of his biggest hits that by no means had been.

Drake’s Grammy-winning Take Care arrived in 2011 and Rick Ross popped up on one of many album’s sleeper classics, “Lord Is aware of.” Drizzy and Rozay move the baton over a cinematic Simply Blaze manufacturing, with assist from an angelic choir.

Drake stole the present on Rick Ross’ “Keep Schemin’,” which discovered the 6 God throwing a collection of vicious haymakers at Frequent to assert victory of their effervescent feud. The Beat Bully-produced anthem peaked at No. 58 on the Scorching 100.

“Clearly, the entire rigidity with that entire camp has been brewing for a very long time, and that was the primary time somebody had referred to as me out personally,” Drake instructed XXL of the Frequent beef. “I reacted in a really poised approach. To begin with, I made certain it could run within the membership as a result of that’s extra painful than something.

“Versus simply being on a weblog, I wished to be on a document that you would need to stand round and listen to each night time for a couple of months,” he continued. “That was my entire technique going into that. As an alternative of sounding harm and malicious, I wished to sound enjoyable, get my s–t off. Like I mentioned, if it occurs once more, not that I would like it, not that I welcome it, however I’m prepared. I actually take pleasure in writing bars, man. I feel I got here away with the W on that one.”

Rozay merged the worlds of MMG and OVO with Drake and Wale showing on the sensual “Diced Pineapples.” “Name me loopy, s–t a minimum of you name me,” Drake sings over the piano-laden manufacturing. The RIAA platinum-certified single landed on Rick Ross’ God Forgives, I Don’t album and reached No. 71 on the Scorching 100.

It was GBS x OVO x MMG, with Rick Ross remixing Lil Reese’s “Us” anthem and calling on Drake to lend one more help. Drizzy exhibits like to Ricky and shouts out components of the Toronto and Chicago crews concerned along with his verse: “You understand 305, Ricky, that’s my fucking n—a/ Did this shit proper right here for Baka, Preme, Kinds, and Gilla/ Did this shit proper right here for Reese, Sosa, Fredo, Durk,” he raps.

Rick Ross and Drake have compiled a collection of collabs by this level and The Greatest Boss offers Drizzy a salute, whereas freestyling over his Nothing Was the Similar crossover hit “Maintain On, We’re Going House.”

Rick Ross laid low for a lot of the vicious Meek Mill and Drake feud sweeping hip-hop through the summer season of 2015. Months after the mud settled following the fireworks of Drizzy’s scathing “Again to Again,” Ross responded with jabs on the 6 God and Money Cash CEO Birdman on Black Market‘s “Colour Cash.”

“Colour cash received your bitch out on a world tour/ My lil homie made one million on his lady tour/ We again to again and all the way down to whack a n—a unborn/ Miami n—-s received ’em altering all of the gun legal guidelines/ So run Forrest, received some shooters and so they dying, too/ I received more cash than that p—y that you just’re signed to,” Ross raps.

Drake appeared to reply to Ross as fans speculated that Drake was bragging about flying Rozay’s ex and mannequin Lira Galore to Saint Martin on “Weston Highway Flows.”

“Yeah, I introduced your wifey out to Saint Martin/ She violated, I despatched her again the place it began/ How fast they’re to neglect about their bachelor condominium/ Go away it to n—as such as you to point out em’ mild within the darkness,” he raps.

Throughout a 2016 interview, Rick Ross stepped in to defend Meek Mill, and despatched Drake a warning risk for if he saved attacking his MMG operating mate.

“If it’s gotta go there, Renzel gonna bounce off the porch in your a–,” he instructed N.O.R.E. and DJ EFN on Drink Champs. “That’s simply the way in which I’ve all the time been and I’m gonna die that approach… You simply gotta know what you doing for [your] canine, for [your] household, that’s what it’s.

“Simply off some G s–t, [Meek] ain’t lose to no one,” he continued. “I do know I’m a wealthy n—a, I do know what Meek Mill getting. All people don’t know what [Drake’s] enterprise like. I don’t actually know what’s touching the checking account.”

Rick Ross credited Rap-A-Lot CEO J. Prince with orchestrating a gathering between The Greatest Boss and Drake to lastly squash their feud. Hopping on the Finest Seat within the Home podcast, Rozay mentioned it was finest for enterprise to let bygones be bygones and go ahead with their profitable relationship as allies.

“Me truly sitting down with Drake, shout out to J. Prince,” he mentioned. “It was actually simply… We wasn’t even discussing something unfavorable, as a result of by the point we get within the room, it’s a lot different issues occurring that it’s already, ‘Let’s get on some cash.’ However I needed to simply ensure that we at sat down and have some kind of understanding. It’s all about attempting to the touch 9 figures.”

Drake celebrated his hometown Toronto Raptors profitable the NBA Finals over the Golden State Warriors along with his The Finest within the World two-pack. For one of many tracks, Drake invited Ross alongside for one more standout team-up with “Cash within the Grave.”

Lower than a month after “Cash within the Grave,” Drake throws Rick Ross one other alley-oop with the opulent “Gold Roses,” which served as Rozay’s Port of Miami 2 lead single. “10 years in and y’all but to listen to my most spectacular verses,” Drake raps, testifying to his personal growing older like wine within the craft.

Whereas the time could have handed for his or her Y.O.L.O. tape, Rick Ross leaves the door open for probably getting the collab effort finished sooner or later.

“That was only a vibe. You by no means know what might occur sooner or later, however me and Drake, him being in Miami at the moment [in 2011-2012], and him coming by the crib every single day, we was spending lots of time collectively. And it was a critical risk,” Ross instructed Advanced.

“We wasn’t simply speaking s–t. We actually was within the studio so much. It’s simply not the identical no extra. That means, the way in which he journey and the way in which I transfer. However is it a risk? There’s all the time a risk for that, as a result of it could be easy for us.”

Drake enlists Ross for one more visitor look on Scary Hours 2 collab “Lemon Pepper Freestyle,” an homage to the Greatest Boss’ Wingstop possession. The Florida native flexes his lifetime of luxurious. “Foot Locker, 20 deep, a n—a spend a dub/ G-Wagon for my b—h, that lady go dwell it up/ Dying row, that’s for these n—-s, I’ma hit ’em up/ Makaveli, it’s All Eyez on Me,” Ross raps.

At residence over a pitched-up pattern, Drake salutes Lil Wayne for serving to launch his profession on Younger Cash. “All of us grateful for Weezy, however no another than me,” he testifies.

Rick Ross supplied an replace on his Drake collab LP and revealed it was much more of a spotlight in latest months following the arrival of “Lemon Pepper Freestyle.”

“After our newest launch. … ‘Lemon Pepper Freestyle,’” Rozay mentioned to MSL Media. “We had that dialog and it’s most positively underneath critical consideration.”

Former NFL star Chad Ochocinco claimed Drake and Ross had been engaged on the joint challenge too. “The joint album they’re doing collectively will unseat all tasks they’ve finished to this point,” he tweeted.

Rick Ross returned to Drink Champs in 2023 and mentioned he and Drake are “actual shut.” He went on to pay the 6 God a excessive praise when saying they’re within the “two percentile” of creators on the planet.

“Me and Drizzy, our relationship is most positively is actual shut. Imma be sincere, I don’t understand how a lot music we received, as a result of it’s really easy working with the homie. Imma be sincere. We within the two percentile with regards to writers and creators. It’s referred to as a two percentile,” he mentioned.

“The 2 percentile — pay attention, in the event you not prepared for this…. Stroll out of the room. However the two percentile is once you stroll into the room, you hear one thing, a beat or a manufacturing that you just truly love and may truly create it, write it, and execute it proper then. I can’t say I’ve finished that with many artists. It’s not even 5 artists.”

Rick Ross joined Adin Ross for a stream on the high of 2024, the place he tipped his imaginary cap to “Keep Schemin’” as his favourite collaboration he’s ever finished with Drake in his profession to this point.

“I’ma say ‘Keep Schemin,’” he mentioned. “He got here out to us; he got here out within the streets. He got here to us when he put that document collectively. It was a type of vibes. We had the beat. He walked proper in on it as we was puttin’ it collectively and he didn’t wait one second, in order that was most positively magical.”

Cristina Mackey confirmed she and Rick Ross cut up earlier in March 2024. Weeks later, she was invited as a particular visitor of OVO to Drake’s It’s All A Blur – Massive because the What? Tour cease in Miami. The petty transfer reportedly got here after Ross unfollowed Drake on Instagram.

Drake appeared to have smoke for everyone along with his leaked “Push Ups” diss monitor probably concentrating on Kendrick Lamar, The Weeknd, Metro Boomin, Future and Rick Ross, who he sniped about being a corrections officer and hooking him up with Billboard chart hits.

“I would take your newest lady and cuff her like I’m Ricky/ Can’t consider he jumpin’ in, this n—- turnin’ 50/ Each track that made it on the chart, he received from Drizzy/ Spend that lil’ examine you bought and keep up out my enterprise,” Drizzy raps.

Rick Ross heard the photographs on “Push Ups” and instantly received within the sales space the place he returned hearth at Drake with the fiery “Champagne Moments.” Rozay calls out Drake for allegedly stealing Lil Wayne’s movement and claims he had beauty surgical procedure to alter his nostril.

“That’s why you had an operation to make your nostril smaller than your father nostril,” Ross raps.

It’s one factor to battle Ross within the sales space, it’s one other for the battle to spill onto social media. Rozay is considered one of rap’s funniest comics on socials, and he has been relentless in dissing Drake on-line. Varied clips present Rozay trolling Drake by carrying his merch at a efficiency, referring to him as “BBL Drizzy” and mentioning ghostwriting claims.

“I simply realized BBL Drizzy referred to as his mommy on me,” Ross mentioned within the Instagram Story clip. “He shared their textual content messages between one another. Ah, cupcake Drake. Inform your momma you stayed out previous your curfew, white boy. You wished to hold on the park with the n—-s, smoke weed with the n—-s whereas we washed our old skool Chevys.”