{"id":750063,"date":"2026-06-01T23:57:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T23:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/750063\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T23:57:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T23:57:18","slug":"lebron-james-shows-love-to-jay-zs-roots-picnic-freestyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/750063\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James Shows Love To JA\u0178-Z&#8217;s Roots Picnic Freestyle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/17803218475342.jpg\" alt=\"Los Angeles Lakers v Toronto Raptors\" class=\"wp-image-3055589\"  \/>Source: Cole Burston \/ Getty<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hiphopwired.com\/2841922\/lebron-james-always-drake\/\" id=\"2841922\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LeBron James<\/a> may not realize it, but he continues to draw a bigger line in the sand between himself and his former friend, <a href=\"https:\/\/hiphopwired.com\/playlist\/drake-responds-fuck-kendrick-lamar-chant-reactions\/\" id=\"2783591\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Drake<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, <a href=\"https:\/\/hiphopwired.com\/3055554\/afro-hov-jay-z-at-roots-picnic-aims-fire-at-drake-nicki-dame-more-hip-hop-reacts\/\" id=\"3055554\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">JA\u0178-Z<\/a> took over the Roots Picnic stage and treated fans to a freestyle that got the internet talking. While the bars appeared to take aim at Dame Dash, Kanye West, Tory Lanez, and of course, Drake.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy next update, the jig is up, n*gga, I\u2019m up ten, wrong chart champ, you got to look up again. N*ggas look up to Hov, I never looked up to them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Many believed this bar was directed at Drizzy for two reasons. One, on ICEMAN, the OVO rapper said, \u201cWe know how you OG\u2019s are rocking already, my n*gga, the jig is up. Drake has also made it clear early in his career that Hov was a big inspiration to him on his come up.<\/p>\n<p>Now, to add insult to injury, Drake\u2019s former friend, LeBron James is showing one of his op\u2019s love again.<\/p>\n<p>King James commented on a clip of JA\u0178\u2019s Roots Picnic freestyle, \u201cIt\u2019s the Rock.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The reaction caught attention because it\u2019s far from the first time LeBron has publicly supported one of Drake\u2019s ops. During the height of the Kendrick Lamar and Drake battle, LeBron attended Kendrick\u2019s Pop Out concert. <\/p>\n<p>Spotted dancing his heart out to \u201cNot Like Us,\u201d the Grammy-winning diss track aimed at Drake.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the public optics, there may still be hope for reconciliation. A few months ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/hiphopwired.com\/3054528\/rich-paul-on-drake-lebron-james\/\" id=\"3054528\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rich Paul<\/a>, LeBron\u2019s longtime friend and business partner, suggest that repairing the relationship isn\u2019t out the question.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the end of the day, I think it\u2019s important for adults to really reconcile down the road and stay out of that\u2026 I don\u2019t get involved in any of that. For me, it\u2019s just about allowing time to pass and hopefully, people can reconcile their differences\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whether they squash the beef, LeBron continues to give fans another reason to speculate where things stand between him and Drake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Source: Cole Burston \/ Getty LeBron James may not realize it, but he continues to draw a bigger&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":750064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3770],"tags":[7,1094,18323,185,6,681,680,476,3820],"class_list":["post-750063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto-raptors","tag-basketball","tag-drake","tag-jay-z","tag-lebron-james","tag-nba","tag-raptors","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-raptors","tag-torontoraptors"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116677564572973327","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/750064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}