Drake’s rumored beef with Bobbi Althoff has been energized once again as the latter was reportedly asked to leave an event hosted by the rapper’s team.
On Tuesday (March 12), The Daily Mail reported that the online personality was among those present at Mayfair Austin following the South By Southwest premiere of Magic City: An American Fantasy, a docuseries co-executive produced by Drizzy’s DreamCrew media company.
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Though the Canadian superstar didn’t attend the party himself, Althoff was reportedly removed from the premises as she apparently showed up uninvited.
“I have no idea how she got in because she was not invited by organizers or hosts of the event,” a source present at the gathering claimed. “If you look up the past history between her and Drake, it’s easy to see why she wasn’t invited – and why she was removed as soon as possible.”
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Bobbi Althoff and her podcast went viral last summer when she interviewed Drake, though it seemed like their relationship soured soon after when they both unfollowed each other on social media and the interview was removed from YouTube.
During an appearance on the Baby, This Is Keke Palmer podcast earlier this year, the comedian denied there was ever an issue and even said she spoke to the “Hotline Bling” hitmaker just a few weeks prior.
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“I guess we’ll never know,” she said about why the 6 God unfollowed her, before adding: “He’s a very nice person and he definitely clearly changed the trajectory of my whole career.
“Either him or Funny Marco, but both of them definitely changed my whole entire life. So it’s crazy. Without them, I was still gonna be posting with my 100k views.”
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Amid reports of a divorce from her husband, rumors about Althoff sleeping with Drake began circulating online last year, though she was quick to deny them.
Yet another theory as to why their episode was removed arrived in September, when a TikTok user by the name of @PhotogSteve81 posted a clip that went viral. In it, he claimed that Drake essentially controlled the fate of the episode through “corporate bullying.”
With him playing Tyga’s “Rack City” during the interview, the social media user theorized that he could have had Universal Music Group (who own the rights to the track) threaten to take all the profits from the interview or have it taken down due to copyright law.
“Drake paid her travel to come to his location,” he began. “Negotiated where his team would produce, film and control mostly everything about the podcast.”
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He continued: “He then goes on to play Tyga’s ‘Rack City.’ He specifically leaves it playing and airs a very long clip in the episode which now appears to have been his leverage he planted in the beginning.
“Drake’s team reached out to Universal Music Group which owns the rights to ‘Rack City’ and filed a copyright strike against Bobbi’s podcast. They filed it under the terms that YouTube has with Universal Music.”
