Drake is expected to hit the road for a world tour in 2027, but the OVO faithful shouldn’t expect him to perform his “Take Care” collaboration with Rihanna anymore.
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Drizzy joined Trainwreckstv’s Kick livestream over the weekend, which found him singing along to “Take Care,” but he assured fans this is “probably” the only place they’d hear him perform lyrics from the top 10 Billboard Hot 100 hit again.
“This the only performance you’re getting of this song probably, but s–t, welcome to Trainwreckstv, baby,” he said. “Oh my God, man.”
“Take Care” landed on Drake’s 2011 classic album of the same name, and the Rihanna-assisted track reached No. 7 on the Hot 100 in 2012. According to Complex, Drizzy hasn’t performed the cut since 2017.
Drake and Ri have enjoyed a fruitful partnership over the years. After being linked romantically in the first half of the 2010s, they also teamed up for Hot 100 No. 1 hits such as “What’s My Name?” and “Work” as well as “Too Good.”
However, their relationship has deteriorated over the course of the last decade, as Drake has been clashing with Ri’s partner, A$AP Rocky, whom she shares three children; it has only further fractured any chance of reconciliation.
Rocky caught strays from Drake during the latter’s war with Kendrick Lamar on Drizzy’s three-part “Family Matters” diss track. The Harlem native sent shots in Drake’s direction on tracks such as Don’t Be Dumb‘s “Stole Ya Flow” as well as We Still Don’t Trust You‘s “Show of Hands,” and J. Cole’s “Ruby Rosary.”
The Mob frontman also addressed his disdain for Drake in a January interview with Apple Music, but clarified it’s “not real smoke” between them. “This thing between us it’s not real smoke, but I just don’t f–k with him,” Rocky said at the time. “We was once friends. I feel like it’s over females. I feel like he wasn’t happy and he expressed that.”
He continued: “I think at some certain point and everyone getting older and you supposed to be moving on. For you to be picking at a female, that’s soft to me. I didn’t put out music for me to say something back and I finally did say something back to a few people. I do think that s–t is petty. It’s enough money, fame, women, spotlights to go around. We not really tripping off nothing. Is it real smoke? It could never be. That ain’t real smoke.”
Fans also have speculated that Drizzy was throwing shade in Rihanna’s direction on For All the Dogs‘ “Fear of Heights.”
“Why they make it sound like I’m still hung up on you/ That could never be,” he sings on the 2023 track. “Gyal can’t ruin me/ Better him than me, better it’s not me/ I’m anti, I’m anti/ Yeah, and the sex was average with you/ Yeah, I’m anti ’cause I had it with you/ OK, I’m auntie like your daddy sister/ Auntie like a family picture/ And I had way badder b—hes than you, TBH/ Yeah, that man, he still with you, he can’t leave you/ Y’all go on vacation, I bet it’s Antilles.”
When Drake is back outside for his first North American run since 2023, he probably won’t be performing his “Work” collab with Rihanna either.
“I don’t sing this song anymore. You can sing it for me,” Drake told the crowd at a Tampa Bay show in February 2024.
