During an interview with Lil Yachty, Drake has revealed that he regrets airing out his exes in his music. During a discussion about his 2016 song “Weston Road Flows”on which he suggested that he would retire at 35. He now says that he thinks that's an ageist statement.
He explained, “I hate hearing that sh*t. I heard it the other night. I think that and some times when I’ve said girls’ names in songs, maybe those are the two things that I look back on and I’m like, ‘Maybe I coulda done without, like, sh*tting on people for age or disrupting somebody’s life.'”
He continued, “The lyrics are never with ill intent, but I had somebody tell me one time, ‘You know, it’s not necessarily what you’re saying about me, it’s the fact that you said it.'”
When asked to elaborate, Drake revealed that the conversation with his ex led him to think about what else might be happening in a former lover’s life when he decides to share details about their former fling in his music.
He explained, “Just in the sense like, ‘You don’t know what it does to me.' You don’t know who my boyfriend is at the time or you don’t know what my family knows or doesn’t know. And if you express any form of discontent for me and call me by name in a song, then all of a sudden I’m left to pick up the pieces of my own life that I’ve tried to build up for myself.'”
He continued, “So I’ve tried my best to stop doing that. But I like to be honest in music too, so that one’s a push and pull.”
