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Drake – possibly pouting somewhere because when is he not slightly pursing his lips – is showing a little remorse for something. Very unlike him that. And ting.

So what’s up with him now? Well, he’s said that he regrets mentioning the names of his exes in his music.

Appearing on the premiere episode of Moody Conversations, he stopped being a certified lover for long enough to be a certified person and said that name-dropping ex-partner’s names might not have been the most mature thing he could have done with his platform.

“I heard it the other night. I think that, and sometimes when I’ve said girls’ names in songs, maybe those are the two things that I look back on, and I’m like, ‘Maybe I coulda done without, like, shitting on people for age or disrupting somebody’s life,’” he said. “The lyrics are never with ill intent, but I had somebody tell me one time, ‘You know, it’s not necessarily what you’re saying about me, it’s the fact that you said it.’”

“You don’t know who my boyfriend is at the time, or you don’t know what my family knows or doesn’t know,” the singer recalled an ex saying. “And if you express any form of discontent for me and call me by name in a song, then all of a sudden I’m left to pick up the pieces of my own life that I’ve tried to build up for myself.”

“So I’ve tried my best to stop doing that… But I like to be honest in music too, so that one’s a push and pull.”

Obviously, that didn’t stop him taking the piss out of a woman who was shot at by her ex for lame clout, but whatever – if we’re looking toward Drake for wisdom, then we’re damn fools thicker than industrial muck.

He also said that he hopes to eventually make a “graceful exit” from the music industry at some point, but honestly, we think when he packs it in, it’s because Pusha T will actually end his career with a beef track so hard that Drake will just throw his hands in the air and up and leave.

He’ll have some Friday night bangers to come before then though. It’s not truly summer unless Drake has put out or guested on a totally tropical hit.