In a new interview, DJ Mustard got candid about Drake and revealed why he wiped his hands with the rapper. Mustard tells the LA Times he has no plans to produce a song for Drake. “I don’t think I want to make a song with that dude,” he says. The Faith Of A Mustard Seed performer says Drake is a “strange guy.” Earlier this month, Mustard referred to the rapper as the “Malcolm X of white people.”
“Drake is the Malcolm x of white people [laughing emoji] and @Akademiks make sure you post @GordoSZN first week since drake thought he did a thing with making him drop on the same day as me [laughing emoji],” he posted to X. The producer believes Drake is behind the lackluster sales of his latest album. DJ Mustard also claims DJ Akademiks and Gordo SZN helped sabotage his album rollout. Drake fans immediately fired back, casting the blame on Mustard. While the producer entertained the back-and-forth initially, he eventually retreated.
However, before gracefully bowing out, he refers to Drake’s fan base as “the Nation of drizzlam.” He addresses the situation during the discussion saying, “These guys don’t go to sleep — all they do is tweet, tweet, tweet, tweet.” Mustard continues: ” That’s where ‘the Nation of drizzlam’ came from. I said it in a joking manner, but I guess on Twitter it looked like I was mad.” He jokingly suggested that Drake use the phrase and says he won’t charge him for it.
Released on July 26, Faith Of A Mustard Seed, sold only 18,000 units in its first week. The project served as the hitmaker’s fourth studio album. Guest appearances ranged from Kirk Franklin and Lil Yachty to 42 Dugg, and Vince Staples. Faith of a Mustard Seed was the follow-up to the 2019 album, Perfect Ten. Despite his recent comments, in a recent Billboard interview, Mustard claimed that Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” served as the perfect album rollout.