Drake's Beef With Megan Thee Stallion Came After Other Famous Feuds

Drake's talent is undeniable. So too, it seems, is his tendency to get into highly public spats with other celebs.

Just this week, rap queen Megan Thee Stallion clapped back after Drake dissed her in a new song of his.

Canada-born Drake, whose legal name is Aubrey Drake Graham, has released hit after hit over the course of his career in entertainment. The rapper, singer and actor got his start in the early 2000s on the teen drama series Degrassi, where he was a regular for several years. He dropped his first mixtape, Room for Improvement, in 2006.

Despite a steady stream of success and accolades, the Billboard chart-topping artist makes frequent headlines for verbally sparring with other stars. Here's a look back at some of Drake's most major beefs.

Megan Thee Stallion

Early Friday morning, Megan Thee Stallion locked horns with Drake after he appeared to accuse her of lying about getting injured in a shooting in the song "Circo Loco." Megan had previously said that fellow rapper Tory Lanez shot her in the foot in 2020 after a Hollywood Hills pool party.

Drake and 21 Savage also released a new collaborative album this week, Her Loss, with some listeners flagging a line from "Circo Loco."

"This b**** lie about getting shots, but she still a stallion," Drake rapped.

From there, Megan blasted the controversy-prone rapper on Twitter, writing in part: "Since when tf is it cool to joke abt women getting shot ! ... Ready to boycott bout shoes and clothes but dog pile on a black woman when she say one of y'all homeboys abused her."

Kanye West

Drake has long had issues with Kanye West, who himself has been making scores of headlines in recent days due to antisemitic remarks he made online. The two rappers had reportedly reconciled following an extended feud, but Drake still dragged West in the same song as Megan Thee Stallion.

TMZ reported Friday that although Drake and West had once seemed to have made up, the former fired proverbial shots with a "Circo Loco" stanza that refers to their reunion concert last year.

"Linking with the opps, bi***, I did that for J. Prince," Drake raps in the song. J. Prince is a big-time record executive who'd asked the two rappers to set aside their differences for that specific concert.

West responded to the insult in a Friday morning tweet, writing: "Enough already I done gave this man his flowers multiple times Let's really see who are real ops are in this music game Imagine all the rappers on the same side and everyone cleaning up each others contracts It's kingdom time Love Drake #lovespeech."

Anthony Fantano

After music critic Anthony Fantano gave one of Drake's recent musical offerings a poor rating, the rapper responded in kind.

Drake sent insulting messages back in September to the prominent YouTuber, who then jokingly told his subscribers that the star had DM'd him a vegan cookie recipe. Next, Drake posted screenshots of the encounter on social media.

"Your existence is a light 1," he wrote to Fantano. "And the 1 is cause you are alive."

Shortly after, the critic told Newsweek that he wasn't too concerned that he was seemingly in the crosshairs of the rapper and his dedicated fans.

"Funny enough, the quality of insults I get from Drake fans is about the quality I got from Aubrey himself in the DMs," Fantano said at the time. "Not very bright, not very cutting, and proof of an obsession with me I don't fully understand."

Meek Mill

In 2015, Meek Mill accused his sometimes-collaborator Drake of getting help with writing lyrics, according to the website Notorious Classics.

"Stop comparing Drake to me too," Meek said in a tweet at the time before eventually deleting it. "He don't write his own raps! That's why he ain't tweet my album because we found out!"

Some music sleuths said that Atlanta hip-hop artist Quentin Miller was behind Drake's rhymes, especially given that he'd received co-writing credit on certain tracks from the rapper's 2015 mixtape If You're Reading This It's Too Late.

Meek and Drake launched into a tit-for-tat rap battle, each releasing songs to respond to the other's claims. The pair stopped feuding, though, in 2018.

Chris Brown

Rihanna was reportedly at the center of Drake's drama with Chris Brown. Page Six reported in 2019 that each artist had dated the "Umbrella" songstress, whom Brown had previously assaulted in 2009.

Still, the two enemies eventually made up, even teaming up for a collab.

"We've come together before and tried to link and make music and I think we were always kind of forcing it. I think there was always resentment on both sides," Drake told Rap Radar in 2019. "You know, really at the end of the day when you kind of step away from it and break it down you start to feel silly 'cause it's over girl stuff, you know? But obviously, that can snowball...and that's what happened in this situation."

Newsweek has reached out to a representative for Drake for comment.