Drake Bestie Stephen Curry Reveals How Not Like Us Rattled Him

Kendrick Lamar launched a lyrical onslaught of epic proportions on Drake and used Stephen Curry as one of his props.

Drake Bestie Stephen Curry Reveals How Not Like Us Rattled Him

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Stephen Curry is one of the biggest fans of Drake in the NBA. The Canadian rapper and the American sharpshooter have been publicly friends for a big portion of Curry’s NBA career. Though Drake is the Global Ambassador for the Toronto Raptors, his loyalties have always been with Curry when the Warriors legend dresses up to play teams other than the one he represents.

When Drake gave fans a surprise drop with If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late, a 2015 compilation album with subliminal shots at Kendrick Lamar, Diddy and others, he also shouted Stephen Curry out on the hit song 0 to 100/The Catch Up, saying

“I been Steph Curry with the shot, Been cookin’ with the sauce, chef Curry with the pot, boy.”

It is clear that the two of them have a relationship that’s deeper than sports and rap. Curry and Drake were fined $500 by head coach Steve Kerr after the rapper’s antics delayed his arrival to a Warriors team plane. The two of them are about as tight as two celebrities can get, both in the public eye and in private. Unlike LeBron James, Stephen Curry was not amused by how Drake’s rap beef with Lamar turned out last year. Speaking to Complex in an interview, he revealed the depth of their relationship, saying:

We go way back though, and it’s actually kind of like a family thing too. One of Ayesha’s cousins is from Toronto, she’s from Toronto and the whole deal. So we’re all in the same boat.

Stephen Curry was then asked about why he reacted to Not Like Us playing at the Paris Olympics warmup game against Serbia the way he did, while LeBron James kept swaying his body to the tune. He answered thus:

Everywhere we went, that’s all I heard. And the fact that they knew who I was with. You can’t do nothing about what the DJ’s playing. But I was like, I got sick of it at a certain point. And it was funny, the cameras caught me, because that was from the soul. That was from, like, my core.

Drake has made many hits by name-dropping Stephen Curry and other NBA stars in his songs

Drake has always felt like an outsider to hip-hop with the way he approaches music and how he used soft symbolism to change the way rap music was made during the early-2010s. It seemed that to be considered a real rapper, he would have to make more references that could be made at the cookout. He achieved this at a certain level by collaborating with LeBron James, Stephen Curry and Kevin Durant.

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A Drake NBA player name-drop at any point between 2014 and 2022 was almost a guarantee to help his song do numbers on the streets, in the clubs and on the radio. Even Lou Williams has had the benefit of a raised clique when Drake name-dropped the Sixth Man of the Year award winner on the song 6 Man from If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late.

Drizzy Drake recently dissed LeBron on his latest single What Did I Miss?, causing more waves on NBA Twitter and other discussion forums. It is clear that he doesn’t appreciate how hard James has been batting for Kendrick Lamar and dancing to Not Like Us whenever spotted in public. We may get more disses from him in his upcoming album Iceman.

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