Budden will confirm it soon enough, watch.
Ak might confirm it too.
Let's not forget, Drake was supposed to go on vacation after Her Loss. Around the time he was getting slammed with accusations of misogyny and think pieces in multiple music publications, twitter pages, etc. I actually defended him at the time, BTW. Another example of me being impartial. He followed that up with another critically panned album, more think pieces, and right after that boom Like That sparks all this. I think it's very likely they (UMG) wanted him out of the public eye so they can fix some things. Instead he ran up on the wrong dude (also on UMG) and got popped in the mouth.
Whole internet clowning him, one of the biggest records in the country is calling him a pedo...of course they want to snuff this out. All it's gonna take is one gen z thot-turned-activist chick to hurl an accusation and shyt really going to hit the fan.