Sophia Michaels
iLoveMakonnen’s career was on a serious upward trajectory after dropping his hit song “Tuesday” in 2014. The California native then elevated higher once Drake jumped on the “Tuesday” remix and appeared in the video. After that, iLoveMakonnen’s career still wasn’t done ascending, because he inked a deal with Drake’s record label OVO Sound. Any logical person would probably assume the rapper-singer would be making more songs with Drake and become a longtime OVO flag waver — but the opposite occurred, with their relationship crumbling, and iLoveMakonnen leaving OVO.
At first, in a statement shared by XXL in April 2016, iLoveMakonnen said there wasn’t a beef between himself and Drake, but a freestyle on “Tim Westwood TV” that June changed that. “Motherf***ers say I got dropped … / You know that’s a motherf***ing lie / Only place I dropped is in my godd*** pants size,” rapped iLoveMakonnen. Shedding more light on the mysterious situation in a 2017 interview with Fader, iLoveMakonnen alleged that Drake and his crew threatened him at an MTV VMAs afterparty in New York City the previous September, which he believed was over the freestyle.
“I was threatened by others,” iLoveMakonnen claimed. “Someone I so-called look up to, saying, ‘We gon f*** you up the next time we see you.'” He continued, “When I’m rapping, people think I’m throwing shots. I ain’t rapped no names! All I did was rap!” As of this writing, iLoveMakonnen is still opening up about his rocky history with Drake, though the Canadian rapper has yet to publicly respond.
