Overview

• Ghostface Killah told TMZ that Drake should relax about being called a “culture vulture,” saying he has “been called worse.”
• Drake addressed the label on Bobbi Althoff’s Not This Again podcast, insisting his intentions are “pure” and acknowledging he gets sensitive about such criticism.
• The conversation follows Drake’s fallout with Althoff after her viral interview and a later incident he says led him to cut ties.
• Kendrick Lamar’s 2024 diss tracks Euphoria and Not Like Us intensified the critique by questioning Drake’s authenticity and referring to him as a “colonizer.”
• Drake has pushed back on the tag for years, including a 2019 BBC Radio 1Xtra interview where he questioned what the term even means.