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Halle Berry and Drake.
Getty Images (2)Drake used an old image of Halle Berry at the Kid’s Choice Awards to promote his latest duet with SZA“Slim out.”
Drake, 36, dropped the cover of the new single via Instagram on Wednesday, September 13. “😳💚,” he captioned the post.
Drake used a photo of Berry, now 57, as she slimmed down while sitting in the audience at the 2012 Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards. Drake added a “Parental Advisory Explicit Content” sticker to the bottom of the cover. SZA, 33, reposted the album cover to her page later on Wednesday, and the song dropped on Friday, September 15.
Hours later, on Friday, Berry posted a cryptic quote on Instagram. “Sometimes you have to be the bigger man… even if you’re a woman!” the note read, with a label for the musician Beabadoobee‘s (real name Beatrice Kristi Ilejay Laus) account. Berry captioned her post with an index finger emoji.
In the comments section, a fan asked the Oscar winner for her “thoughts” about Drake using a photo of her to promote his single.
‘I didn’t get my consent. That’s not cool. I thought better of him!” she replied. “Hence my post today. When people you admire disappoint you, you have to be the bigger person and move on!”
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Halle Berry gets slimed during Nickelodeon’s 25th Annual Kids’ Choice Awards held at Galen Center on March 31, 2012 in Los Angeles, California.
Christopher Polk/KCA2012/Getty Images for KCABerry later doubled down on her position in a second comment, claiming that Drake approached her first. “He asked me and I said NO, that’s why,” when a social media user asked why she was upset in the first place. “Why ask if you plan to do what you want to do! That was the fk you for me. Not cool. You got it?”
The rapper has not publicly addressed Berry’s claims.
“Slime You Out” is the first single from Drake’s new album, For all dogs. The LP – which features an illustration of a red-eyed dog drawn by Drake’s 6-year-old son, Adonis – will be released next month. Previously set to release on September 22, Drake pushed back the release date on Friday, explaining that he is still working on finalizing the release. For all dogs.
“Okay, my dilemma I’m facing is either cancel shows to finish the album or I complete the mission and drop the album before the last show,” he wrote via Instagram Story. “I owe you all these memories we are building, and everywhere we have missed so far, we will definitely be back.”
He concluded: “For all dogs [comes out on] October 6. It’s only a good thing.”
Drake’s drama with Berry isn’t the first time his music has sparked controversy. Ghanaian musician Obrafour sued Drake for $10 million in April, claiming he never approved the Canadian native’s sample of “One Ohene (Remix)” on his song “Calling My Name.”
Obrafour, 47, released his song in 2003 and claimed in his lawsuit that he never responded to Drake’s email request to sample it, according to Business insider. Drake has not yet publicly addressed the legal drama and the case has not yet been settled.