A$AP Rocky has released a new Drake diss track on his new album ‘Don’t Be Dumb’.
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Back in June 2024, DJ Kast One revealed that Rocky was gearing up to respond to Drake’s disses on ‘Don’t Be Dumb’, after Drake took aim at him in the song ‘Family Matters’, one of the many exchanges traded in his feud with Kendrick Lamar.
Rocky’s new album was shared yesterday (January 16), and a new song ‘Stole Ya Flow’, which also references his partner Rihanna, is assumed to be about Drake.
The rapper actually addressed the diss in a recent interview with the New York Times Popcast, where he said that he was already prepared for the internet to assume that Drake was the target of the track. “I think we all know,” he said of the song’s subject.
When pressed for what happened between himself and Drake, Rocky said, “I started just seeing people who started out as friends and just became foes, seemed like they was unhappy for you and started sending shots.”
“I think that’s what led to any of our misunderstandings. It really ain’t smoke,” he continued, adding that he doesn’t see a resolution happening between them. “It don’t even need to be. For what?”
“It’s for whoever feel like it’s about them,” Rocky added after the hosts once again asked him to clarify if the track was about Drake.
In the lyrics of ‘Stole Ya Flow’, he taunts: “First you stole my flow, so I stole yo bitch/My baby mama Rihanna, so we unbothered.”
Rihanna and Drake worked together frequently and were rumoured to be dating in the late 2000s and early 2010s, but in 2018, Rihanna said they “don’t have a friendship now”.
‘Don’t Be Dumb’ is Rocky’s first album in almost eight years – his last LP, ‘Testing’ came out in May 2018. He first announced the album in June 2024 with the release date scheduled for August, but it was then subjected to a number of delays. In February 2025, he said he was “in the mixing and mastering realm of it,” and in December, he shared the fresh January release date.
NME listed ‘Don’t Be Dumb’ as one of the most anticipated album releases of 2026, writing: “After a years-long legal battle, A$AP Rocky was found not guilty last February for his role in a 2021 shooting incident. His fourth album ‘Don’t Be Dumb’ – preceded by singles such as ‘Pray4DaGang’, ‘Ruby Rosary’ and ‘Tailor Swif’ and coming nearly eight years after his last album, ‘Testing’ – then feels like the return of a prodigal son.”
In November, meanwhile, Rocky was officially unveiled as a new brand ambassador for Chanel. The rapper said of the French fashion house’s artistic director, Matthieu Blazy, “His designs feel both sensitive and strong, they’re grounded in reality but at the same time, always invite one to wonder. I’m so excited to see him at Chanel.”
Two months before, he welcomed his third child with Rihanna – Rocki Irish Mayers was born on September 13. The ‘Umbrella’ star had revealed her pregnancy while making a fashionably late entrance at the Met Gala in May.
He was also in two movies last year, starring in indie hit If I Had Legs I’d Kick You alongside Rose Byrne and Conan O’Brien, as well as Spike Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest, opposite Denzel Washington.
