Young Thug‘’s lawyer Brian Steel has shared his thoughts on Drake naming a song after him on his new album with PartyNextDoor, ‘$ome $exy $ongs 4 U’.
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For Valentine’s Day, Drake and his longtime collaborator PartyNextDoor dropped their first ever joint album together. The album is the pop-rap juggernaut’s first release since his highly-publicised rap battle with Kendrick Lamar, which he addresses as well as his relationships with The Weeknd, Rick Ross and more.
The record featured a track called ‘Brain Steel’, which was named after Thug’s lawyer – who played a key role in securing the rapper’s release during his historic YSL R.I.C.O case. On the song, the ‘God’s Plan’ rapper responded to the tweet Thugger made last October, asking him, Future and Metro Boomin to become “bruddas” again since “music ain’t the same without us collabin.”
Drake replied: “Broski just hit me, said, ‘Put all the beef on the side,’ I can’t / Mm-hmm, I’m heated now, yeah / N****s want meet up, talk about shit, I’m vegan now / Evil eyes were staring at me and I see it now.”
New York Times reporter Joe Coscarelli reached out and got a response from Steel, sharing a screenshot of an email on his X/Twitter account that read: “Thank you for the below, Mr. Journalist. I was unaware of [the song]. Thank you for sharing. I have had the honour and pleasure of meeting with Mr. Graham. He is so kind, considerate, generous, inspirational, intelligent – a true leader and great model for our community.”
Drake’s new album, “$ome $exy $ongs 4 U,” has a song called “Brian Steele,” presumably for Young Thug’s lawyer, Brian Steel
despite the misspelling, Steel says Drake is “so kind, considerate, generous, inspirational, intelligent – a true leader and great model for our community” pic.twitter.com/qe0DEBB8jy
— Joe Coscarelli (@joecoscarelli) February 13, 2025
Thug’s tweet came after Drake, Future and Metro’s feud intensified last year with the release of Future and Metro’s debut joint album ‘We Don’t Trust You’. Throughout the album, the Atlanta rapper and other contributors sent subtle shots at Drake – most notably Kendrick Lamar on ‘Like That’, which became the catalyst for his high-profile rap battle with the rapper last spring.
The origin of Future and Drake’s drama is unknown, but there are rumours that the former wasn’t pleased with his ex-friend collaborating with 21 Savage on 2022’s ‘Her Loss’ after hinting that they would release a follow-up to their iconic 2015 mixtape ‘What a Time to Be Alive’ back in 2019.
On the other hand, Metro and Drake have publicly been at loggerheads since December 2023, after Boomin expressed his frustrations about ‘Her Loss’ winning over his second album, ‘Heroes and Villains’ at numerous award shows, calling it “proof that award shows are just politics and not for me.”
At the time of writing, it doesn’t seem likely that Future and Metro Boomin will rekindle their respective friendships with Drake.
Last week, Drake was unveiled as the sole headliner at this year’s Wireless Festival. He will do a different set every night, with various special guests bolstering the line-up including Summer Walker and Vybz Kartel.
IT’S BEEN A WHILE BUT THE BOY IS HOME 🇬🇧
For our 20th anniversary.… @Drake will headline all THREE nights with three different setlists.https://t.co/TYiE06jNRA for pre-sale info.
General sale on Wednesday 19th Feb at 12pm GMT.@burnaboy @partynextdoor @IAMSUMMERWALKER… pic.twitter.com/CfmMGq0DnC— Wireless Festival (@WirelessFest) February 16, 2025
The news came a week after Kendrick Lamar mocked the rapper during his Super Bowl halftime headline performance. Lamar played ‘Not Like Us’ – despite Drake’s ongoing lawsuit with Universal Music Group over promoting the song, teasing: “I want to play their favourite song but you know they like to sue.”
Timothée Chalamet also chimed in on the Drake-Lamar feud, saying: “I think we saw, beyond the quality of songs in the battle environment, we saw pop culture at large got behind the Nobel figure and Pulitzer figure” – referring to Lamar.