It has to be someone that has taste in music, it has to be somebody, you know, that I get along with so much to the point when we’re separate I’m feeling like I can’t function properly without their presence.
“I love my work and I love my routine, and for me to break that for somebody it would just have to be like a really special person that fits into that puzzle and that is supportive of the things I’m doing…” Drake confessed. Ultimately, what it comes down to is that he’s single because he loves his freedom. It was at a really fragile time in my life, so I just didn’t want to get too serious with anything or anyone at that time.” Autonomous over amorousness…x2?ĭrake has taken advantage of many an interview to detail how his ambition and his passion for music make him hyper independent, which in turn makes finding a romantic partner challenging. “I definitely was attracted to Drake, but I think it is what it is, like it was what it was. I was like, ‘Wow, this feels terrible.’īut then in a followup interview, he dialed it back a bit, saying that Rihanna is an “overwhelming and incredible person.” Of course, Rihanna dispelled the notion that she’d used Drake at all, using ‘we’ statements all the way. You know what she was doing to me? She was doing exactly what I’ve done to so many women throughout my life, which is show them quality time, then disappear.
In a famous 2010 interview with The New York Times, Drake confessed he felt used by Rihanna: Before we begin parsing out how and why it never really worked out between Drake and Rihanna, it’s first worth acknowledging the fact that they were never officially a couple, seemingly due to longterm hesitation and confusion stemming from both sides.īetween 2009, just months after their first date, up until very recently, anyone who’s paid attention to the spectacle of their romance has been bombarded with an endless stream of alleged makeups, breakups, hot dates, steamy collaborations, declarations of (sort of) togetherness, declarations that their relationship was open, sordid stories of cheating or wandering eyes…Īnd as though to put a big ol’ cherry on top, there’s the persistent denial that they were ever a thing to begin with, mostly but not entirely on Rihanna’s end.