Rick Ross disses Drake at Verzuz
- Rick Ross used his May 7 Verzuz battle with French Montana in Los Angeles to publicly jab Drake while performing their old hit “Aston Martin Music.” - Ross asked for “no Drake vocals” and told the crowd to “sing little man’s part,” turning a catalog showcase into a fresh feud clip. - The moment matters because Ross and Drake never really patched up their 2024 fallout, so even a nostalgia record now doubles as bait.
Rap beefs usually live online now — Instagram captions, diss tracks, podcast clips, the whole endless loop. But Rick Ross dragged his Drake feud back onto a stage on Thursday night, May 7, during his Verzuz battle with French Montana in Los Angeles. That mattered because the song he used was “Aston Martin Music,” one of the biggest records Ross and Drake ever made together. Instead of leaning into the nostalgia, Ross turned the reunion moment into a public snub. ### What exactly did Ross do? When “Aston Martin Music” came up, Ross stopped to make the point explicit. He asked for the track without Drake’s vocals, then told the crowd to handle that part themselves. Multiple clips from the room show the audience filling in the verse while Ross rapped his own sections, which is why the moment spread so fast — it was petty, deliberate, and very easy to understand in one short video. (tmz.com) ### Why did that hit so hard? Because “Aston Martin Music” is not some random deep cut. It’s a 2010 Ross single featuring Drake and Chrisette Michele, and for a lot of fans it belongs to an earlier version of both artists — luxury-rap Ross, ascendant Drake, big radio hooks, no visible hostility. So cutting Drake out of that record lands like someone scribbling over an old photo. The whole point is that the history is real. (iheart.com) ### Was this a real Verzuz? Yes — just not the old pandemic-era Instagram format people probably picture first. Complex billed it as a Rick Ross vs. French Montana Verzuz at Apple Music Studios in Los Angeles, with 16 rounds built around club records and catalog flexing. That setup matters because the event was supposed to be a celebration of hits, which made Ross’s decision to turn one round into a diss feel even more pointed. (soapcentral.com) ### Did French Montana play into it? A little, yes. In coverage of the clip, French is shown leaning into the joke instead of shutting it down, basically tossing the Drake part back to the crowd. That made the moment feel less like an accidental omission and more like a staged humiliation beat inside a friendly battle. French has also said earlier this year that he thought Ross and Drake could eventually make peace, which now looks optimistic at best. (complex.com) ### Where did the Ross-Drake split come from? The break really hardened during the 2024 Drake-Kendrick Lamar war. Ross sided against Drake publicly and dropped “Champagne Moments,” a diss record that mocked Drake directly. Since then, the relationship has looked functionally dead in public, even if neither side has treated it like a nonstop active war. That’s why this Verzuz moment matters — it shows Ross still sees value in poking the wound. (soapcentral.com) ### Why are people talking about this more than the battle itself? Because viral moments beat scorecards. Some writeups framed French Montana as the winner of the night, but the clip everyone passed around was Ross muting Drake on a shared classic. Basically, the event produced a cleaner storyline than “who won round 11?” It gave fans a feud update wrapped inside a nostalgia performance. (vice.com) ### So what’s the real takeaway? Ross did not just avoid Drake’s verse. He used a beloved collab to show that the split is still active enough to perform in public. In rap, that’s the message — not just that two artists are beefing, but that even the old hits are no longer neutral ground. (tmz.com) (yahoo.com)
