From brotherly love to rap beef; Ferg lays out how growth, ego, and evolution tore the “Club Paradise” tour squad apart.
A$AP Ferg finally broke his silence on the messy feud between Drake, Kendrick Lamar, and his own A$AP Rocky and spoiler, it’s not all smoke and mirrors. In a recent Bootleg Kev Podcast interview, the Harlem rapper dropped a grounded, surprisingly sensitive take on why three of hip-hop’s biggest names drifted apart.
Ferg didn’t frame it as a dramatic betrayal. He compared the tension to a sibling rivalry. He paints Drake as the big brother, charismatic, commanding, and impossible to ignore, while Rocky and Kendrick were growing up, trying to step out of his shadow.
“There are moments when younger guys want to level up, prove themselves,” Ferg told Bootleg Kev. He argued that the versions of Drake, Kendrick, and Rocky that toured together on the 2012 Club Paradise Tour were not the full grown artists we see now. They were evolving, learning, becoming their true selves.
Ferg says the fallout wasn’t born out of pure hatred, it came from growth and identity. He calls it “natural” for relationships to shift when people change, and he’s not wrong.
Meanwhile, Rocky himself has weighed in. The Harlem star told ELLE that the Drake–Kendrick feud, while messy, was “healthy for hip-hop.” But he did throw some shade at how things ended, especially Drake’s lawsuit against Universal Music Group.
Of course, Rocky also has his own scars. He fired shots at Drake on Show of Hands, only for Drizzy to clap back on “Family Matters.”
