Rap icon Drake appears to have a particular curiosity in cricket and has been inserting some bets on the sport not too long ago. The songwriter on Monday disclosed how a lot of his cash has gone into playing.
He’s reported to have positioned a $750,000 wager on the Royal Challengers Bengaluru to beat the Punjab Kings in an upcoming cricket match.
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His put up generated blended reactions amongst followers who marveled at how a lot he was spending on the sport. “Oh so we betting on cricket now?” one particular person wrote.
Early this 12 months, the rapper stated he was planning a brand new chapter of his profession, which he believed would make followers “uneasy.”
“U know I grew up non-confrontational and at all times handled this sport as a sport the place my pen received gold, however nowadays the rostrum has been onerous for all of us to disregard,” he wrote on Instagram in March.
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“I perceive that this subsequent chapter could go away you feeling uneasy, however I hope you see my honesty as readability not charity that solutions some questions particularly in regards to the unanswered texts you’ve been sending me,” he added.
The put up got here almost a month after Kendrick Lamar carried out his Grammy-winning observe Not Like Us on the 2025 Tremendous Bowl halftime present.
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Drake was additionally noticed at a World Wrestling Leisure occasion on March 1, after cancelling some dates on his Australian and New Zealand tour
He was on the ringside on the “Elimination Chamber” present along with rapper Lil Yachty on the Toronto Rogers Centre.
Previous to this, he and his group settled a dispute with iHeartMedia over Not Like Us. The go well with was stated to be about radio airplay of the track.
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The case was reportedly filed in November, with Drake and his group alleging that iHeartMedia had accepted unlawful funds from Common Music Group (UMG) to spice up the radio spins of the Kendrick Lamar diss track.
Nonetheless, Drake’s authorized group not too long ago confirmed that the rapper and iHeartMedia had “reached an amicable decision of the dispute,” suggesting that each events had been happy with the end result of the authorized redress.
