She’d bully him.
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Drake may have squashed his beef with Bobbi Althoff, but now we have a bone to pick with Mr. Aubrey Graham. In the premiere episode of Althoff’s new podcast, Not This Again, Drake mentioned that WWE Superstar Rhea Ripley is his “muse.” Now, most of the time, a celebrity involving themselves with professional wrestling is cause for celebration. Bad Bunny hosting Backlash in Puerto Rico? Absolutely. Yes. Sign me up. Jelly Roll getting into the ring with Randy Orton? Delightful. Michael Che and Colin Jost popping up at WrestleMania? Sure! But this from Drake? No thanks.
The subject came up when Drake was trying to find Tyga’s Instagram page. “My FYP page is just all Rhea Ripley,” he told Althoff, who replied that she doesn’t know who that is. To Drake’s credit, he did follow it up with, “I’m the opposite of everything that she likes.” But then he said, “I really feel like my destiny is to wind up with a goth baddie with just absolute O-cups.” Sure, Drake.
Drake is, of course, not wrong to be obsessed with Rhea Ripley. The two-time Women’s World Champion is a once-in-a-lifetime talent — the kind of wrestler that makes non-wrestling fans go, “Wait, who is that?” when she gets into the ring. Ripley, an Australian wrestler whose real name is Demi Bennett, made a name for herself in the WWE as a goth heel. She’s currently one of the company’s top performers; in the Netflix documentary WWE: Unreal, WWE chief content officer Paul “Triple H” Levesque told Ripley, “You’re not one of the most over women here … you’re one of the most over people here.” (“Over” is wrestle-talk for “popular.”) Drake, do not show up at the next WWE event in Toronto. In the immortal words of Demi Lovato, “GET A JOB. STAY AWAY FROM HER.”
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