By picking Drake's opp, Kendrick Lamar, and not Drake's mentor, Lil Wayne, to play the Super Bowl halftime show in Wayne's hometown of New Orleans, JAY-Z signaled that things aren't good between him and the Canadian.
Joe Budden believes things went south a couple of years ago after Drake tried to front-run Hov's wife's Reinnasance album with his similarly themed Honestly, Nevermind project.
But there may be something else going on.
Dame Dash is being forced to sell his 1/3 stake in Hov's label, Roc-a-Fella, because he owes money.
Roc-A-Fella's biggest asset is Jay's Reasonable Doubt album.
According to Dame, Drake reached out and tried to buy the 1/3 stake in Roc, in part to spite Hov.
"I'm thinking, like, what I would do if I was Drake. I'd be like," Dame said of the Super Bowl controversy. "Well, a big W would be to come to the Super Bowl with one of these Roc-A-Fella chains.' Drake hollered at me through a DM and made and offer. I'm not quite sure what happened. But I thought that he had got with Jay on something, but I don't know. "But it would be a good time to close if you got it," Dame Dash continued. "You know, I wouldn't do it if you don't got it. If you want to own Reasonable Doubt, if you want to own a third of it, have a say at the board meeting for at least the next seven years and make money off of it, I would get these chains."
Do you think Drake reaching out is something that happened, or is Dame telling tales?
Drake does have a history of buying other rappers' stuff.