Rapper Drake has been pretty quiet about his beef with Chris Brown over Rihanna. In the latest issue of GQ magazine the rapper opens up about his infamous night club fight with the "Fine China" singer and how Will Smith helped him realize he has no idea what love is.
Drake and Brown got into an infamous and nasty altercation last June when they got into a fight at the W.I.P nightclub in New York City. What really happened that night is unclear but from reports bottles and fists flew in the air. In some versions of the story Drake supposedly sent a bottle to Brown's table with a note that read something like "I'm f-ing the love of your life." Whatever happened that night tempers flared, people ended up hurt and the club was trashed.
Drake hasn't really spoken about what happened and still didn't go into details about it to GQ magazine but he does address it saying that he was - and still is - embarrassed about the situation.
"It's embarrassing, the amount of media coverage," he told the magazine. "Two rappers fighting over the woman. He's not even a rapper, but still, it's the last way you want your name out there. It distracts from the music. But he's made me the enemy, and that's the way it's gonna stay, I guess."
"If I think about it too much," he added. "I feel it wrapping around my foot, like I get a feeling it could end really badly."
The rapper wouldn't elaborate on what he meant about things ending badly and he wouldn't say if he was referring to Rihanna's safety (who was back with Brown at the time of the interview) or where the feud could go if it continued. The only thing Drake told GQ about his cryptic statement was that "it gets really dark."
When asked how he felt about the on-again, off-again couple getting back together he told GQ he is trying to put it all behind him and would really like to talk to Brown about everything that happened.
"I hear he has everything he could want now," Drake said not referring to Brown by name. "I don't want my name to be synonymous with that guy's name. I really don't. I wish we could sit down, just like you and me right now, and talk it out man-to-man. But that's not going to happen. I'm not confrontational, but if someone challenges, I'm not going to back down."
He then changed subjects and told the magazine that he recently sat down and had lunch with Will Smith, someone he said he really looks up to, and the actor told him something about love that made him really open his eyes to what love - and being in love - really is.
"Listening to him talk, it made me think I don't know what love is. He said something so profound," Drake said. "He said love is when you become one and you need that person. It's not about wanting anymore, you need that person. Hearing that, I don't know if I ever felt that way. I've held women in very high regard almost to the point where I felt like I needed them for a very long time, but I don't know if I comprehend it yet, and I'm okay with that."
He said his latest album, "Nothing Was The Same," is the first time he talks about being ok with not finding love yet.
"I've made a lot of music about love being the only thing I'm missing," he said. "I think this is the first album I've made saying, I'm okay. I'm enjoying it right now."
