Drake isn’t happy, he has currently an interview/profile in the last issue of Rolling Stone magazine and naturally he was expecting to see his face on the cover…. But Philip Seymour Hoffman died and the actor got the cover, and Drake got furious on Twitter. I am always amazed how celebrities launch rants on Twitter then regret it five minutes later and erase everything, which is totally unnecessary because people have already copied and saved the bad tweets. Anyway, Drake was really mad at Rolling Stone: ‘They also took my cover from me last minute and ran the issue’…‘I’m disgusted with that. RIP to Phillip Seymour Hoffman. All respect due. But the press is evil.’
Since, Drake realized (with a little help?) he sounded a bit egocentric, a bit asshole-ish may be? And he decided to write this long post on his website to apologize and apologize, ‘I completely support and agree with Rolling Stone replacing me on the cover with the legendary Phillip Seymour Hoffman. He is one of the most incredible actors of our time and a man that deserves to be immortalized by this publication. My frustration stemmed from the way it was executed’, he wrote…. ‘They ran the issue without giving me a choice to be in it or not. I would have waited until it was my time because I understand the magnitude of the cover they chose but I just wasn’t given that option and that made me feel violated. I apologize to anybody who took my initial comments out of context because in no way would I ever want to offend the Hoffman family or see myself as bigger than that moment’.
No, Drake would never ever see himself bigger than a moment like this, but what did he mean by ‘I would have waited until it was my time’? It sounds even more self-absorbed than the rest of his raging tweets. Unbelievable, how dare some actor die during Drake’s big moment with Rolling Stone! The fact that Drake’s PR team (very probably) had to tell him that his rants were a bit douche-y, just says a lot about him. He had even more things to complain about in the interview and he tweeted later: ‘I’m done doing interviews for magazines. I just want to give my music to the people. That’s the only way my message gets across accurately.’
Good! But let’s face it, I just wrote about this because I care about Hoffman and couldn’t care less about Drake and his huge ego. Sure he apologized, but the deed was done.