Drake is expected to make quite a return on his investment as the looming sale of the Los Angeles-based chain Dave’s Hot Chicken is rumored to be past the $1 billion mark.
According a report from Reuters on Tuesday (February 11), the restaurant is working with investment bank North Point and “exploring a potential sale” upwards of $1.3 billion.
Drizzy became an investor in 2021, and per Eater at the time, “He has a very good stake.”
After launching as a pop-up in LA in 2017, Dave’s now operates over 250 locations around the world and generates roughly $1 billion in annual sales.
In other news, Freddie Gibbs has accused Drake and PARTYNEXTDOOR of biting his style with their new album $ome $exy $ongs 4 U.
The title of the collaborative project, which is stylized as $$$4U for short, bears a resemblance to that of Gibbs’ 2022 album $oul $old $eparately, which he also tends to shorten to $$$.
Drizzy and PND’s joint LP additionally features cartoon bunnies on its back cover, similar to the “Big Rabbit” mascot that the Gary, Indiana rapper has adopted for years.
The similarities have not gone unnoticed by Gangsta Gibbs, who aired his grievances with the OVO Sound duo on Thursday (February 13).
“Damn they even stole the rabbits too. I’m flattered,” he wrote on X, shortly after Drake and PARTYNEXTDOOR unveiled the tracklist a day ahead of the LP’s Valentine’s Day release.
He then looked to capitalize on the moment by directing fans to his aforementioned album.
“$$$4u [heart emoji],” he quipped while resharing a spoof “Greatest Hits Collection” commercial he filmed in 2022 to promote $oul $old $eparately.
The ESGN MC also retweeted several posts from fans calling out Drizzy and PND for allegedly stealing from him, making sure his point was felt.
Though Freddie Gibbs has yet to cross paths with Drake as either a collaborator or an adversary, he has taken cues of his own from the 6 God in the past.
Back in 2021, Gibbs dropped a freestyle over Drizzy’s Certified Lover Boy into “Champagne Poetry” and addressed everything from Kendrick Lamar‘s “smoking on your top five” boast from Baby Keem‘s “Family Ties” to being snubbed by the Grammys and BET Awards.
He was equally outspoken when Drizzy and Dot’s long-simmering beef finally boiled over last year, reacting to the latter’s line on “Like That” where he rapped: “And your best work is a light pack / N-gga, Prince outlived Mike Jack.”
“First of all Mike ain’t dead,” joked Gibbs, who hails from the same city as the late King of Pop, on social media following the song’s release.
After the two Hip Hop titans traded blows on diss tracks like “Push Ups,” “Euphoria,” “Family Matters,” “Meet the Grahams” and “Not Like Us,” Freddie gave a surprising answer when declaring a winner of the battle.
“The record labels,” he wrote succinctly.
Sam L apparently is an investor too Drake must be mad. Anyway the album was trash just a mess I agree Kenddick’s super bowl show was bad or mid and it should have been Wayne instead but GNX was way better than Drakes album. GNX was a mix of west coast, blues/soul and Kendrick honoring friends and family. This Drake album was a mess him being shallow and weird sex stuff as well as copying other sounds like Houston Kirko Bangz style rap and even like trashy black eyed peas and some reggaeton here and there just the ultimate vulture album I guess. Feels like Ye predicted this with his album Vultures which both are better than this and Kendrick with his songs. If Drake does make this money he could take his L and ride off into the sunset a rich man leave music behind.
Both albums were wack. Running theme with these two. WOAT two fanbases all time. Dudes like Gibbs and Cole should have been in the spots these two have occupied the last 15 years.
That’s some nasty shit. I knew I wouldn’t like it but my kid let me taste it, and it was fucking terrible.
daves hot chicken sucks a bunch of gay dicks
HAHAHAHAHHAAHAHHAHAH U F@GGETS CONTINUE BEING POOR WHILE DRAKE GETS RICH$$$RRR KENDRICK LOST
Where u been? I thought you offed yourself after the Halftime Show. There’s still time to go though with it. Btw, only women and homo’s get excited about how much money a guy is worth
SORRY LOSER I DONT SPEAK BROKE ENJOY PLAYING COD ALL NIGHT WHILE REAL MEN OUT HAVING SEX TO THIS ALBUM!!! AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA LOSER!!!!!
Lol yes you’re definitely out there having sex with real men. Thats the most honest you’ve ever been
I’m giving out free BJs to all other fellow Drake fans
great greg – having sex with real men, self appointed loser.
His album isn’t even in the top 20 music trending on YouTube meaning the album sucks more balls than greg on the weekend.
Drake has and will continue to make way more money than the haters in the comments
Drake runs rap – sucks dick for a living.
And his haters have more money than you’ll ever have. Now take your head out drakes ass and get some oxygen
I work as an accountant for ovo so I already know I make way more and fuck way more bitches than you ever have
Uh huh 👌Is that why you’re on this website defending drake 24/7? No job that pays a good salary would you have as much free time as you do
Setting the truth straight about who runs rap right now is part of my job requirements. Drake is going to sell over a million assuming republic records doesn’t interfere and throw out many of the streams and sales.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 If you really did work for Drake, that might explain why his career is in the toilet. You’re instructed to spend all of your time making dumb posts on this site? To brag about how much money you make on here? Lmao
His songs hit big on the charts constantly and this is on track to sell over a million copies I’m the first week. He’s running rap, the opposite of stuck in the toilet
Stick to chicken, drake. Your rap career is finished
Dave’s hot chicken smells like !ndian people’s body odor. I ordered it once, never again