Drake Covers GQ / Addresses Haters, Sex, Chris Brown Beef, & More

Published: Tuesday 18th Jun 2013 by Sam

Fresh from announcing his new tour, Drake keeps his promo game popping with a brand new GQ cover.

Renown for his diet-bravado approach to being a “rapper”, the multi-Platinum MC tells the publication of his laxed stance when it comes to the critics and why he is (literally) keeping it real.

Now, before you get totally taken with that Colgate smile and pleasantries, the Canadian star also waxes honest about his “beef” with Chris Brown – suggesting that things could get more heated under right (or should we say, wrong) circumstances.

Peep excerpts below…

Via Complex:

On other rappers hating on him:
“You notice they don’t criticize the music itself, though…I’m okay with that.”

On focusing on his album rather than sex: 

“You know the way fighters don’t fuck before the fight? Sometimes I feel like I’m so focused on training my body and getting my mind right to create this album that sex isn’t one of my main priorities. If someone is around that I know and trust, I’m down. But I’m not going to end up with some stranger at this party.”

On Chris Brown drama:
“I hear he has everything he could want now. I don’t want my name to be synonymous with that guy’s name. I really don’t. I wish we could sit down just like you and me are right now, and talk it out man-to-man. But that’s not going to happen. I’m not confrontational, but if someone challenges, I’m not going to back down. If I think about it too much, I feel it wrapping around my foot, like I get a feeling it could end really badly…Like, it gets really dark.”

On love:
“[Will Smith said] It’s not about wanting anymore, you need that person. Hearing that, I don’t know if I’ve ever felt that way…I’ve made a lot of music about love being the only thing I’m missing. I think this is the first album I’ve made saying, ‘I’m okay, I’m enjoying it right now.’ Maybe this is my time to grind it out, make a run for it, and add some memories with my boys.”

On ‘Started From The Bottom’:
“I think a lot of people wish their favorite rapper wrote it—as if a song like that should be gangster—but I was the one who wrote it, and everyone has their bottom.

As for my whole story, I wouldn’t change a thing. I’ve told bits and pieces of it—and I’ll tell more. Maybe because I had friends who grew up in the hood, I could have acted like I had, too, and perpetrated a different lifestyle, and it would be eating away at me because it wouldn’t be the truth. i’m actually here in front of you living the truth. I wake up int he morning and my heart is light, man. It’s not heavy. I don’t have skeletons in the closet on their way out. This is my real age, my real name, my real past, and I’m good with that.”

On ‘Nothing Was The Same’:
“This is my ****ing moment to say if I wanted to rap all the time, really rap, I would, but I also love to make music. I’ll do this for you right now. But it’s for me, too. It’s my story…I’m trying to get back to that kid in the basement. To say what he has to say. And I’m trying to make it last.”

On his pursuit of love, and the advice he received from Will Smith: 

“I had lunch the other day with someone I extremely look up to. Okay—I had lunch with Will Smith, and listening to him talk, it made me think I don’t know what love is. He said something profound. He said love is when you become one and you need that person. It’s not about wanting anymore, you need that person. Hearing that, I don’t know if I’ve ever felt that way. I’ve held women in very high regard almost to the point where I felt like I needed them for a very long time, but I don’t know if I comprehend it yet, and I’m okay with that.I’ve made a lot of music about love being the only thing I’m missing. I think this is the first album I’ve made saying, I’m okay. I’m enjoying it right now. Maybe this is my time to grind it out, make a run for it and add some memories with my boys.”

On future ambitions, including his goal of making $250 million by the time he’s 29: 

“I feel this great responsibility to see how far can we take it, how out of reach can I set that bar for whoever comes after. While I’m here, I’m gonna keep pushing that bar higher and higher up and make you really work for it.”

On becoming #1, and re-creating the excitement of his early career: 

“You constantly ask yourself: Will I ever be able to excite people the way I did when the Internet was going crazy, back when you first felt like you had a piece of Drake that no one else had, and you wanted to share it with your friends? Is there an album or song we can make now that’s good enough to get people that excited again? I ain’t gonna lie: I want to be the one you listen to this summer.”

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Insightful.

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  1. Navy Sailor June 17, 2013

    Lol…. The cover….kiiiii! I’m looking forward to the album though. When is it dropping?

    • RitasLipstick June 18, 2013

      Who cares?! All i know is that I want him to be my personal Champagne Papi 2bh.

      • KellyKDL June 18, 2013

        Get in line sis.

      • FAME FORTUNE AND FINE CHINA FLOPPED TEAM BREEZY ARE SOME BROKE BUSTED B****** June 18, 2013

        HAVE A SEAT SIS THAT BIG D*** OF DRAKE’S IS ALL MINE.

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  2. Ariana’sGrand June 17, 2013

    He’s so dreamy.

    • Belladonna1363 June 18, 2013

      I don’t really like his music all the time but he’s damn fine that it really dosent’ matter. Lol He looks Like A Movie Star on this cover! Lol

  3. BeachHouseBritney June 17, 2013

    Aubrey working the fack out of that cover. Yes ma’am!

  4. Britney Stan June 17, 2013

    Drake is daddy

  5. Cassie Lover June 17, 2013

    She’s beautiful.

    • Navy Sailor June 17, 2013

      Kiiiiii 😆

  6. MissMe June 17, 2013

    I knew the Drake was the one for me when I saw him at the Vmas last year. He looked like he was in HEAT the way he was glowing in that tight ass blouse, biting on that award like knew JUST what he wanted that night. Through hook or by crook, imma have him one day.

  7. bitchpleaseeeeeeeeeee June 17, 2013

    YES DRIZZY, THEY JUST DON’T LIKE YOU BUT NOT YOUR MUSIC..LMFAO

  8. LLASAP June 17, 2013

    This dude is deadass stunning.

  9. Pour It Up June 18, 2013

    Lol at that cringey ass smile

  10. Taylor swift stan June 18, 2013

    Look at that goofy smile

  11. DOSSOME June 18, 2013

    “Maybe this is my time to grind it out,make a run for it, and add some memories with my boys ”
    ______________________

    OK Drake,i hear you 😉

  12. DR FENTY June 18, 2013

    OMG…

    He looks so FRUITY in that picture. I see this Old Queen just FLEW out of the Closet.

    *WERK DRAKEISHA*

    KIIIIIII.

    🙂 🙂 🙂

  13. JARED (WHITE DUDE) June 18, 2013

    L*M*F*A*O

    Anyway…

    He looks Cute.

    😉

  14. i&i(bare badniss) June 18, 2013

    I think they both should be over it at this point. That doorknob wasn’t even worth it. I like ’em both and hope they can be friends again and make some good music.

  15. Lovebird June 18, 2013

    OK Drake looks hot on that cover. Too bad he’s gay, that would have been Riri’s man.

  16. OVOForever June 18, 2013

    Why he so beautiful though. Make me wanna fall in love and s***.

  17. ratedxxx(my favs stays on)) June 18, 2013

    I like both drake and chris…I think their beef is stupid..fighting over rihanna…rihanna must have the bomb kitty kat, having all these men fighting over her…lol

    I’m happy for drake’s success…hopefully chris and him can kiss and make up…

  18. GaGa 4 Ariana June 18, 2013

    If I met him I’d be the biggest ho in the world. He’d get it all!

  19. lexi June 18, 2013

    Drakes look really good. On the Chris situation, they need to just move on. Also I would love to see Drake and Rihanna back together, they were really cute and had no drama up until now.

  20. LTM June 18, 2013

    I like how he addressed the Chris Brown beef like a man and in a mature way. If only Chris could take notes. And I love what he said about Started From The Bottom.

  21. MISHKA June 18, 2013

    Dear Drake,

    Don’t doubt yourself for a second, because right now you are WINNING!!!

    I never thought I would say anything close to this but Drake is THAT guy those days. Confident, s*** and a lot of swaggu. Kudos to you, Aubrey, you’ve come into your own and it’s very nice to see.

    I (still) like Chris but Drake did treat Rihanna a lot better and he makes better records. Can’t be mad at facts.

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