Drake has been having an incredible year in 2026. After dropping three blockbuster albums that brought him back in fans’ good graces, his old feud against Kendrick Lamar almost feels like an asterisk. Despite the nasty beef, it’s as if he never stopped being the biggest rapper in the world.

To help with his case is his number one hit “Janice STFU”, a darker, moodier track that saw him take subliminal shots at Jay-Z and Kendrick Lamar. However, despite this success, a new lawsuit suggested that he actually stole the catchy chorus for it. A member of his team essentially scoffed at the accusation.

In a new report from TMZ, they said, “These allegations are categorically, unequivocally, and unequivocally denied. There is not one iota of truth to these accusations.”

Additionally, they called it a “manufactured and baseless attempt” at gaining publicity and discrediting his work. “Drake wrote this song and has no connection or knowledge of this person, full stop,” they stressed.

The lawsuit was reported by Billboard, where hip-hop artist, producer and engineer Aviel Calev Hirschfield claimed he wrote the infamous hook. Moreover, it was made with the Toronto MC specifically in mind after hearing Lykke Li’s “I Follow Rivers”. He alleged that the final products were basically identical and the stem recordings were still intact to prove it.

Drake Gets Hit With Hefty Lawsuit Over His Hit Song ‘Janice STFU’

This isn’t the only time that he’s been accused of ripping off another artist. Back in May 2026, Florida rapper 1900Rugrat felt slighted, alleging that the ICEMAN rapper reached out about working on music. As a result, he sent over a few different records and immediately gravitated to a song that would eventually become his intro.

Once it was made clear that he was saving it for his album, Drake still allegedly affirmed that he would utilize him on the album. However, the stars never aligned, and afterwards, he claimed he heard a record on ICEMAN that sounded like his work. “Twin, that’s the only beat I’ve ever produced,” he said. “Don’t rip my s**t and repitch it like that, fam. That’s fried out and f**ked up, twin.”

After the video he made, he posted DMs between him and Drake that proved he wasn’t lying about the potential of them working together. In the end, he never took him to court for allegedly stealing his work, though.

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Drake repurposed Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” for his own song, “Solar Eclipse”, which has become a massive hit. As of this writing, the song has garnered more than 19 million streams on Spotify alone. And now, it has reached the Top 5.

Per Billboard, “Solar Eclipse” has debuted at No. 5 on the Hot 100. This extends Drake’s record-setting success of landing him his 91st Top 10 hit on the chart. Coincidentally, the song—which features Don Toliver—sits a couple of spots behind Langley’s original at No. 2. Taylor Swift’s new single, “Patient Zero,” unseated it from No. 1 after it had been there for a while.

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Drake and Toliver’s tune is featured on the Toronto rapper’s new project, HABIBIT (FOMO), a re-release of his 2026 eleventh studio album. In the song, he makes some big changes to Langely’s lyrics.

In her version, the country songstress sings: “She’s from Texas, I can tell by the way / He’s two steppin’ ’round the room / And judgin’ by the smile that’s written on his face / There’s nothin’ I can do / It doesn’t take a crystal ball to see / A cowboy always finds a way to leave / Drinkin’ Jack all by myself / He’s choosin’ Texas, I can tell.“

Drake takes a more salacious approach to “Choosin’ Texas”

As for Drake, he goes a different route, rapping:

“She’s from Texas, I can tell by the way she grip on my wood grain
She’s down to take a hundred shots with me and talk about my pain
It doesn’t take a crystal ball to see
A cowgirl ends up riding off on me
Drinkin’ yak all by myself
She’s from Texas, I could tell, baby”

Toliver Layter comes in and repeats the “Choosin’ Texas” lyric in the chorus. He too replaces “Jack” with “yak” (Cognac) like Drake. “Fort Bend, Texas, Katy, Texas, bae, I can’t make this up (Tell the truth, babe) / Sippin’ yak all by myself (Tell the truth, babe) / She’s from Texas, I can tell (Tell the truth, babe, yeah).”

It’s certainly a unique approach, and it feels very on par with how Drake would renovate a country tune. Check out the song for yourself below.

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Drake has frequently gotten into ridiculous beefs throughout his career. Obviously, there’s the infamous Kendrick Lamar feud, which has left the Toronto MC sending shots all by himself. Then, there’s his spat with Meek Mill or Common or even his beef with Jay-Z that revolves almost entirely around subliminal disses.

But none of those have ever gotten actually physical. There’s never been a threat of violence where fans need to be worried for the artists’ lives. Nor did you ever have to think about them getting into messy fights in public.

However, back in December 2014, Drake and Diddy got into a serious brawl, where the Bad Boy CEO allegedly punched him. By the end of the night, the Take Care rapper was reportedly in the hospital with a dislocated shoulder.

Then, a couple of nights later, footage was released of Diddy fed up and possibly intoxicated, claiming Drizzy stole the beat for “0 To 100” from him. “I gave this s**t to this n***a, and this n***a stole this s**t,” he told the audience.

Months later, Rap-a-Lot CEO and ally to Drake, J. Prince, went on the record to say that putting hands on his friend was unacceptable. He scolded Diddy by saying that if any further action takes course, real violence would take place.

The Weird, uneasy history Between Drake and Diddy

“Drake is family, and the weak s**t from Puffy and Suge is on my radar. First of all, Puffy feeling like he can put his hands on my family opens the doors for his family to be touched. You reap what you sow,” J. Prince said in February 2015.

By May 2015, TMZ claimed that Diddy had made amends with the Toronto MC behind closed doors. Since they were going to inevitably run into each other throughout the summer, they wanted to make sure things weren’t uneasy.

To ensure that, Diddy also went on the record to clarify what happened with “0 To 100”, revealing it was a mixup with producers. Moreover, he stressed that he didn’t put hands on him and that he’s actually one of his favorite artists.

“Yeah, ‘0 To 100’ was initially a record that was my record and somehow it became a misunderstanding because he was working with the same producers,” Puff said. “Honestly, Drake is my favorite rapper as far as songwriting and albums… It wasn’t anything that was that big of a deal at the end of the day.”

By 2016, Drake released “4pm In Calabasas”, which included some alleged disses towards Diddy. In the verse, he references the Puff Daddy classics while side-eyeing fake love.

“Certain s**t just too wild to reconcile/Take that, take that, no love in they heart so they fake that/DiCaprio level the way they play that/Damn n***a, what is that?/Even had the OG’s tryna press me Ha-ha-ha-ha/No way out cause I’m already in it,” Drake rapped.

Despite this, Diddy never responded. In fact, he randomly showed up to a Drake performance in North Carolina just a few months after the song.

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Are Drake and LeBron James finally cool again? Or is there quietly still some bad blood on the Toronto rapper’s side? Maybe the NBA legend just wanted to stay true to his ‘hip-hop historian’ label and show he wasn’t too biased against ICEMAN.

Regardless, a new video has surfaced online of LeBron shooting around before a preseason game against the Brooklyn Nets. In the video, you can see him nodding his head along to the song “Whisper My Name” from ICEMAN. Check it out below:

LeBron vibing to Drake's "Whisper My Name" in warm-ups pic.twitter.com/cQ1G9Tnc4z

— Kurrco (@Kurrco) October 9, 2026

It’s pretty surreal that LeBron welcomed his old friend back into his playlist, considering how he dissed him on ICEMAN as well. On “Make Them Remember“, Drake called him out for notoriously switching teams throughout his career, from Cleveland to Miami, then back to Cleveland and Los Angeles. Now, he’s playing in Philadelphia, which makes the diss a little scarier.

“I shouldn’t even be shocked to see you in that arena/because you always made your career off of switching teams up,” the Take Care rapper spits. “Please stop asking what’s going on with 23 & me/I’m a real n***a, and he’s not, it’s in my DNA.”

LeBron James Extends an Olive Branch to Drake by Vibing to His Latest Album

Wait, so how did LeBron James draw his ire in the first place? It likely stemmed from his showing up to Kendrick Lamar’s Pop Out event in 2024. This was during the peak of the war between Kendrick Lamar and Drake. Consequently, it wouldn’t be surprising if it felt like Bron had picked a side.

Additionally, King James showed love to Jay-Z during a freestyle that also featured a shot towards Drizzy. “The jig is up, n***a I’m up 10, wrong chart champ, n***as looked up to Hov, I never looked up to them,” Hov rapped at the Roots Picnic. “Them crackers got your publishing checks, go talk tough to them, don’t talk success to me, you n***as is workers, in perpetuity is how your contract is worded.”

Drake was probably even madder when LeBron James likened Jay-Z to a “big brother” back in July 2026. “He’s the one who’s given me so much game and has taught me so much. And I’m always thinking about him any time I’m doing something business-wise or making a decision or whatever, thinking like, is this going to make him proud,” James told Rich Kleiman for CNBC. “Because he gave me so much game as a 16-year-old kid.”

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Earlier this year, on May 15, 2026, Drake surprised everyone by releasing three albums. Instead of releasing one double album, or maybe even a triple, Drake released Habibti and Maid Of Honour alongside Iceman. On the closing track of Iceman, Drake declared, “This album, I’m never submittin’ it,” referring to the Grammy Awards.

It seems Drake stayed true to his word. On October 5, 2026, Billboard reported that Drake did not submit any of the three albums for Grammy consideration. He also didn’t submit any of the singles. This isn’t the first time the rapper has refused to do so. In 2018, Drake declined to submit More Life, and withdrew his submissions of Certified Lover Boy (2022) and Honestly, Nevermind (2023). He did, however, submit his 2024 collaboration album with 21 Savage, though they lost Best Rap Album to Killer Mike’s Michael.

To be included in the 2027 Grammy Awards, artists had to submit their work by August 21, 2026. Only albums and singles released between August 31, 2025, and August 28, 2026, are eligible for submission.

Could Drake’s Beef With Lamar Be the Reason?

Drake’s three new albums were his first since the 2024 feud with Kendrick Lamar. Despite the feud and Lamar’s attempt to tarnish Drake’s image, these three albums were a huge success throughout the summer months of 2026.

In January 2025, Drake filed a defamation lawsuit against their shared label, Universal Music Group (UMG). Less than a month later, in February 2025, Lamar won five Grammy Awards for the track “Not Like Us”, which alludes to Drake as being a “certified pedophile.” In the defamation suit, Drake claims the label willingly distributed a track with the false narrative. A judge dismissed the case as “nonactionable opinion” in October 2025, and Drake’s team quickly appealed.

Oral arguments in the defamation case are set for December 2026. Amid the ongoing lawsuit, Drake refused to submit his work to the Grammys. If he had submitted, Drake’s three albums might have won in some major categories.

Upon release in May 2026, Drake made history when all three albums took the top three positions on the Billboard 200. Iceman in particular could’ve been a heavy contender for Album of the Year, as Drake tied Taylor Swift for the most No. 1 albums by a solo artist at 15. It surpasses Drake’s previous record with his 2011 album Take Care, which held the top position on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart for 12 weeks. Additionally, he set the record with 40 debut songs appearing on the Billboard Hot 100 in a single week.

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