Here's Everything We Want Drake to Address on 'Scorpion'

As quiet as Drake has been lately, the conversation around him couldn't be louder. Even Kanye West called Drake the "No. 1 rapper" in a recent interview with the New York Times. Fans and critics, peers and former collaborators alike all wonder how he does it. How does Drake manage to stay on top and maintain a squeaky-clean image?

Curiosity about Drake's character never piqued higher than in the immediate moments after Pusha-T dropped his world-stopping diss, "The Story of Adidon," in late May. The song cracked open Pandora's box on the first bar, and by the time it concluded, all of Drake's alleged sins had been spilled out into the digital streets. We waited and waited for a response from Drake, and nothing came. (That is, if you don't count his Instagram press release that half-explained why he was in blackface in the image used for the diss's cover art.)

On top of the fact that Drake simply has yet to respond to Pusha-T, questions from other pockets of his life hang in the balance—questions like: Will he address Rihanna saying he made her feel weird? What the hell is up with his shoe deal? IS HE HIDING A CHILD? These are the questions that need answers. Here's everything we hope he'll finally address.

The tides quickly changed after Pusha's release of "The Story of Adidon." Push knew he did an excellent job at trying his hand at investigative journalism and insisted Drake would come up empty on any hunt for incriminating information about his past. “Let me tell y'all like this: I don't got no skeletons,” Push said in an interview on The Breakfast Club. “It is what it is.”

Apparently, that didn't stop Drake from trying, per Push. In late May, the G.O.O.D. Music president not-so-subtly accused Drake of offering up $100,000 for any dirt on him.

Shortly after, Kanye mentioned that exact same figure on "Yikes," the second track off of his latest album, Ye: "Hundred grand'll make your best friends turn to opps." —Kiana Fitzgerald

The world went into a frenzy in 2016 after all the signs said that #Aubrih was really a thing. Signs, literally—Drake bought Rihanna a billboard to congratulate her on her MTV Video Vanguard Award, then presented the award to her while professing his love. The two were spotted canoodling and necking here and there for a short while after, then... nothing. That is until Rihanna blew up the spot in a Vogue cover story in May of this year. Basically, Drake upstaged her moment, did the most, and creeped her out, and now they ain't even cool, she revealed.

Drizzy is all about keeping up appearances, but now that we know for sure that he blew it, I'd love to see how he tries to spin this. —Dria Roland

Drake's plan to move from Jordan Brand to Adidas was effectively spoiled when Pusha-T revealed that the Canadian rapper was using the deal to reveal his son through apparel and sneakers. Some have wondered if he's even going to sign to Adidas anymore, considering the name of his line was alleged to be "Adidon," which is in the title of the aforementioned diss track. We need answers, Drake. What are you doing? Everyone knows you're a Nike guy at heart and only care about the paycheck from Adidas. In the recently released trailer for Scorpion, Drake is spotted wearing a Nike hoodie at the end. Could it be foreshadowing? Either way, say something or don't sign a shoe deal. —Matt Welty

Though less problematic than other rappers of his prominence (no MAGA hats found here), Drake has had his slip-ups over the years. There's his unwavering support of OVO labelmate Baka Not Nice, who was found guilty of assaulting a woman; his mocking of Kid Cudi’s mental health battles on 2016’s “Two Birds, One Stone”; and the sexist undertones of his mega-hit “Hotline Bling.” Still, though, The Boy remained largely wholesome—and yes, apolitical—throughout the years, until the revelations made in Pusha T’s “The Story of Adidon.”

Finding out that Drake has a secret baby mother and, consequently, a secret baby, has forced stans like me to consider something we’ve avoided discussing for a long time: maybe Drake is just like the rest of them—he’s just better at hiding it. Given the fact that Pusha dropped “Adidon” almost a month ago, and the most we’ve gotten from Drake since is a weird non-apology for doing blackface and aDegrassireunion, there’s little he can do at this point to repair the damage. But including some sort of explanation and an apology to Sophie and Adonis on Scorpion would be a good place for him to start. —Carolyn Bernucca

As previously explained, Pusha-T shook the entire fucking table in late May, with the release of the searing "Story of Adidon." He sat us all down and took storytelling to a whole new level, dropping alleged facts about everyone in Drake's family, from his mother to his father to his purported son, Adonis, and the child's mother, Sophie Brussaux. Both onlookers and people within the hip-hop industry said Pusha took things too far; I mean, I'll never be able to hear a clock tick-tock again without thinking about Drake's right-hand producer 40's health.

Pusha got down and dirty AF on wax, and we expected Drake to do the same. After all, Push was prompted to lay in the mud with The Boy after "Duppy Freestyle," which Drake fired off in response to Pusha's prodding on DAYTONA's "Infrared." The story, in its present form, is that Drake never responded to King Push because he was given a mandate by Houston rap royalty and fearsome figure J. Prince, to stand down. (Prince later said Drake had a response ready to go, but didn't release it because it was "career-ending.") Then, Kanye came into the mix and tweeted the following:

Add on top of that Drake's own mother saying he and Push are "too grown up" for disses, and it all becomes a befuddling mess. Which one of these scenarios is it, Drake? —Kiana Fitzgerald