Cherokee D'Ass responded to Drake lyric mention

Cherokee D’Ass publicly answered a Drake lyric after her name surfaced in “Make Them Pay,” a song tied to the rapper’s “ICEMAN” release. AceShowbiz reported on May 23 that Drake referenced Cherokee D’Ass and Skyy Black in a line about a birthday party from years earlier. Cherokee D’Ass then posted a response on social media dismissing the callback as old news. Entertainment outlets and reposted social clips pushed the exchange wider over May 23 and May 24. ### Which Drake lyric set off the response? “Make Them Pay” is the track cited across multiple reports about the exchange. AceShowbiz said Drake rapped, “Shoutout to Cherokee D and Skyy Black,” before referencing a birthday memory tied to his younger years. Yahoo’s syndicated entertainment item and Complex both described the same lyric as the trigger for the online reaction. (aceshowbiz.com) Skyy Black was the other person named in the line. The reports reviewed did not show Drake issuing any public follow-up explanation about the lyric by May 24. Coverage instead centered on the immediate online response from Cherokee D’Ass and the social-media discussion that followed. ### What did Cherokee D’Ass say after hearing it? Cherokee D’Ass replied on social media with a short post questioning why Drake was reviving a decades-old episode. (yahoo.com) Complex and other pickup reports quoted her as writing, “Rapping about shit that happened over 20 years ago lol.” AceShowbiz separately reported that she reacted publicly after the lyric began circulating online. May 15 appears in several follow-on reports as the date attached to the quoted post, while AceShowbiz published its item on May 23. (yahoo.com) The difference suggests the reaction had already been circulating before another wave of coverage tied it to the May 23 discussion around “ICEMAN.” That timing is an inference from the publication dates and quoted post date in the available reports. ### Why did the lyric draw attention beyond the song itself? (aceshowbiz.com) Drake’s reference appeared to point back to an early-2000s memory, according to Complex and Yahoo’s entertainment write-ups. Those reports said the line was framed as a recollection from when Drake was much younger, which became part of the reaction because Cherokee D’Ass treated the mention as an unnecessary return to old material. (aceshowbiz.com) Social-media reposts helped keep the exchange moving. AceShowbiz said the reference “quickly gained traction” online, and other entertainment sites republished both the lyric and Cherokee D’Ass’s response as a viral back-and-forth. ### How solid is the sourcing on this story? AceShowbiz published the May 23 item that the card was based on, and Complex and Yahoo carried matching descriptions of the lyric and Cherokee D’Ass’s reaction. (yahoo.com) The overlapping details across those reports are the names in the lyric, the song title “Make Them Pay,” and Cherokee D’Ass’s quoted response about something that happened “over 20 years ago.” (aceshowbiz.com) The available reporting is narrower on everything beyond that. None of the sources reviewed here showed a direct statement from Drake responding to Cherokee D’Ass, and none provided independent documentation of the underlying birthday-party anecdote beyond the lyric itself. ### What comes next in the story? May 24 coverage remained focused on reposts, aggregation and reaction rather than any new statement from Drake. (yahoo.com) If there is a next step, it will likely be a direct comment from Drake, his representatives, or another participant named in the lyric, including Skyy Black. As of May 24, the clearest public record remained the lyric in “Make Them Pay” and Cherokee D’Ass’s social-media reply that entertainment outlets continued to quote.