When Drake and Future come together, they create magic. Along with their 2015 collab mixtape What a Time to Be Alive, they have bangers like “WAIT FOR U” and “Where Ya At.” However, at some point, life became not all good between the two, and their bad blood came to a head in 2024, the year of rap beef.
Future and Metro Boomin released their collab album, We Don’t Trust You, full of lyrics and features with a red dot pointed directly at Drake. Old songs like “What Would Pluto Do?” were revisited to unearth sneak disses and assemble a timeline of the beef. Fans grieved, thinking they might never get a Drake x Future collab again.
Recently, whispers of a reconciliation have been floating around the internet, but there are so many conflicting sides to this story that it might as well be a hexagon. Below, we’re breaking down the ABCs of their beef and alleged truce.
Are they waving the white flag?
Before his release from jail, Young Thug posted a plea to his “bruddas” Drake and Future.
While Drizzy didn’t respond to the tweet, Future did retweet Thugga’s post and reignited hope for a reunion. The rumors of What a Time to Be Alive 2 went even further once Elliot Wilson said on a November episode of his podcast The Bigger Picture.
Young Thug’s tweet was apparently the catalyst for the reconciliation, “so I think that helped the energy when Future reposted it. All I can really say is they got on the phone, and whatever seems to be the issue, they seem to come to a place of resolving that. Metro not included. There’s no trust there still with Metro, but I do believe Drake and Future are back on the same page. What the reveal will be, I don’t know. But probably with music, I would think,” Wilson said.
Despite Wilson allegedly having the scoop, OVO Mark (one of Drake’s oldest friends) commented the opposite on HipHopDX’s post about Wilson’s reveal. On top of that, Drizzy’s biggest groupie, DJ Akademiks, stated that their beef is still on as well.
“I’ve spoken to extremely credible sources on both sides, and Drake and Future has not been on the phone. So, not too sure who gave Elliott Wilson the authority to say this, but from what I hear that is not true, that is 100% cap. Now, I’m not gonna say Elliott Wilson is contorting or misrepresenting,” Akademiks said on his Nov. 2 livestream.
It might take a lot more than a phone call to mend their relationship after the shots have been fired.
How did the beef get so deep?
In March, Future and Metro Boomin dropped their project We Don’t Trust You, which featured the song “Like That” with a pissed-off K. Dot proclaiming it’s “just big me.” However, Future fired off some scathing lyrics of his own on the title track “We Don’t Trust You.”
“You a n**** number-one fan, dog, Sneak dissin’, I don’t understand, dog, Pillowtalkin’, actin’ like a fed, dog, I don’t need another fake friend, dog,” Pluto spits on the track.
At his March 25 concert in Florida, Drizzy addressed the crowd and responded to the diss tracks.
However, the duo decided to double down on their feelings towards Champagne Papi.
On the deluxe version We Still Don’t Trust You that dropped in April, Future and Metro Boomin added even more people to get on Drake’s head with The Weeknd and A$AP Rocky (who said on the track “Show of Hands” that “N***** in they feelings over women, what, you hurt or somethin’? I smashed before you birthed, son, Flacko hit it first, son).
The same month, Drake dropped “Push Ups,” in which he addressed his issues with K. Dot, Metro, and Future.
“I can never be nobody Number One fan, You’re first Number One I had to put in your hand,” referencing the track “We Don’t Trust You.”
Still, Future’s issue with Drizzy might date back to 2022 when he dropped the collab album Her Loss with 21 Savage.
Rapper and Drink Champs co-host N.O.R.E. while guest hosting The Breakfast Club in 2023 said that he heard the rumors himself.
“I heard there’s a big rumor that Future is not too happy with this Drake and 21 Savage album, and it makes Drake and Future’s album not as important, I would say…This is allegedly, this is all rumors, I’ve never heard it from Future’s mouth, never heard it from Drake, never heard it from 21, but it’s an alleged big rumor that’s going on right now,” he said.
Neither Drake nor Future have confirmed that they are best buds again — but fans are crossing fingers that maybe Thug’s release can help them unite.
