Drake and Future Reflect on Their Collaboration and the “Big Three” Fallout
In the documentary Magic City: An American Fantasy, Drake recounted his first impression of Future, recalling, “The first time I ever heard Future, I was in some studio in Toronto. I was like ‘how high is this guy, this guy has to be high as fuck’. They were just on some next planet. Esco was telling me some stories about how he broke Future’s music in Magic City.”
Drake and Future have a long history of collaboration, most notably on their joint album What A Time To Be Alive. However, their relationship appeared to sour last year when Future and Metro Boomin released We Don’t Trust You, which included disses aimed at Drake.
Despite public perception, Future downplayed any real conflict when speaking to GQ. He said, “There was a beef? I didn’t even know there was a beef. I didn’t know they had nothing going on. I ain’t never participated in rap battles, man.”
Future also addressed his confusion surrounding Kendrick Lamar’s line on “Like That”: “Muthafuck the Big Three, n-gga, it’s just Big Me,” which sparked lyrical responses from Drake and J. Cole. The Freebandz boss argued he had the strongest claim to be offended. “I’m supposed to be the one who gets mad; I’m still confused about that. Nobody cares what I think. That’s what was so fucked up about the shit. To the point where I’m so player that I ain’t even said anything about how I feel about it.”
He added with a mix of humor and self-deprecation, “Like, why is everybody mad when he was talking about me on my song? So y’all just forgot about me, I ain’t part of this Big Three, I’m nobody on my song, man. If I didn’t get mad, nobody should have gotten mad! If I would have been really mad about it and I made something out of it, then someone else could be like, Oh, I can make something else about it.”
The comments underscore both the complex dynamics in modern hip hop and the influence of public perception. Drake and Future remain prominent figures, but the episode highlights how quickly collaborations can be misinterpreted, even among close allies.
