Young Dro‘s appearance on The Breakfast Club nearly erupted into violence after the Atlanta rapper was heckled by a member of their entourage while talking about his sobriety.
Appearing on the radio show alongside frequent collaborator and former Grand Hustle label boss T.I. on Monday (October 14), Dro was opening up about his past drug addiction and stint in rehab when a friend who was sat on a couch behind them began laughing and interjecting with jokes.
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Dro and Tip initially saw the funny side of his flippant reactions, but the mood in the room changed when the man burst into laughter as Dro was explaining how his near-overdose coincided with his daughter also being on drugs.
“Aye, you finna get slapped. I mean, we cool but I’ll slap the shit out you ’bout that,” Dro warned him after turning around in his chair.
The tension escalated when the heckler refused to back down and replied: “You ain’t gonna slap me now,” to which Dro threateningly asked: “What you wanna do?”
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Fortunately, T.I. quickly diffused the hostility by urging Young Dro to calm down while also scolding their friend.
“Aye, look! Remember who you came in with! Remember what we doing here, man. Come on, man. Get this shit together, bruh. Aiight?!” he said in a raised voice.
The interview resumed without any further flare-ups and Dro later apologized to his friend, saying: “I got beside myself. I shouldn’t have taken feelings to that. That’s my dude right there. I ain’t finna be slapping no goddamn body.”
Young Dro has previously opened up about his battle with drugs, telling VladTV in January 2023: “As I sit here before you, I am 100 percent clean of everything. 17 months. I’m working on my two years.”
Despite celebrating a major milestone, the “Shoulder Lean” rapper admitted that sobriety is no walk in the park, especially as a working rapper.
“It’s still a struggle to actually maintain this because I still live a Hip Hop party life,” he added. “I go out at night. I pay my bills out of clubs and concerts where my peers are smoking and drinking, popping champagne. And that lifestyle is still there.
“To navigate through it, I feel like I’ve been on this journey for five years already. And that’s just because what I see in the night — to fight through that is like going through terrain in Africa in the jungle.”
