Currently on the promotional train in support of his latest album ‘Take Care‘, Hip Hop hero Drake stopped by at The Daily Beast recently to clear up a number of reports surrounding both he and his career.

One of these being his short lived ‘romance’ with hit maker Rihanna and how he really feels about her ex boyfriend Chris Brown.

His telling comments  below…

On Ms ‘We Found Love‘, he confessed:

I came straight from Toronto, just a kid that was trying to get out of my mom’s house, and the first person I meet is a girl that’s the biggest person you could possibly meet at my age.

So I meet her and it was just mind-blowing. I couldn’t believe she’d even want to talk to me. I read some interview where they painted me as so sad and heartbroken, but we’re cool. I was never torn apart by that situation.

On the report he was elbowed by the singer’s ex boyfriend Chris Brown:

I respect him. I’d like to call myself a friend—I don’t know if I’m allowed to do that.

But I definitely didn’t get elbowed in my face. Somebody would’ve got knocked the f**k out.

He then went onto explain his admiration for fellow Rapper Nicki Minaj, saying:

She’s the ideal woman for me.

I like the stripped-down Nicki. I like Nicki with no makeup, black hair, some casual clothes in a recording booth rapping an amazing verse.

That’s sexy to me. I know some great women, but all jokes aside, Nicki is somebody I could spend my life with because I think we understand each other.

Your thoughts?