I have no idea who is advising Drake but he needs to stop. Not even stop anything specifically....stop everything.
Mal is a Drake groupie, so unless he conjured this out of thin air (which I wouldn't put past him) OVO most likely contacted him to say this.
The issue is even if it's true, people are gonna assume it's bullsh*t just based on the timing. How does nobody from his camp see that?
He needs to go away for a while, if UMG will let him. Stop using idiots like Mal and Ak as his mouthpiece. Ak talked all that Game 2 sh*t then a week later had to clarify it had nothing to do with Kendrick. Embarrassing.
Just go radio silent, work on an album, come back in a few months. Whether or not it lands is another topic entirely, but what he's currently doing is not working.
Fred.