"Not like anybody still listening to that": Internet reacts to Rick Ross changing the cover art for his Drake diss track 'Champagne Moments'

Although Rick Ross (Rozay) played a minor role in the Drake vs. Kendrick Lamar beef, which initially began with Metro Boomin and Future's collaboration album We Don't Trust You, after which several artists including Ross, The Weeknd, Kanye West, and A$AP Rocky took a stand against Drizzy.

Hip-hop media outlets on X, like NFR Podcast, began reposting Rick Ross's single Champagne Moments today after fans began resharing the updated cover art for his diss track. The original cover was the highlight of the track, as Ross supposedly used a yearbook photo of an unnamed individual who resembled Drake.

The latest cover, however, is an AI-generated picture of Drake, whose art style led users on X to draw similarities to the animation style used for characters from Netflix's Archer series. On the new cover, Drizzy is reimagined as a Caucasian male wearing thick glasses and blonde hair, dressed in a suit and bow tie.

The internet has reacted with mixed responses to Rick Ross updating the cover art for Champagne Moments, with many citing this as the MMG CEO's attempt to continue to "milk" the 2024 beef. One critic expressed how this update was irrelevant as "nobody" was listening to Rozay's diss track.

This sentiment was echoed across social media as users and Drake fans came in support of their favorite artist to shade Rick Ross for trying to reignite the 2024 beef, which ended after Drizzy released his fourth and final diss track, The Heart Part 6, on May 5, 2024.

"Tryna milk it his career is done" - one user stated.

"How everybody allowed to use AI but Drake? Ross need to relax he wasn’t giving us Kendrick level bars then he let the game get at em he should just let this ride out" - said another.

"Drake look like a character from Archer" - added another user.

"If he was gonna use AI for the cover couldnt he have paid like $2 more to AI upscale it" - one user asked.

A few users seemed to suggest that the new cover art for Champagne Moments bore a greater resemblance to Metro Boomin than it did to Drake, highlighting the hilarious nature of the AI-generated picture of the Canadian superstar.

"Is it just me or does the new visual also look like @MetroBoomin?" - suggested one user.

"Resemblance is more akin to @MetroBoomin" - said another.

Many users appeared to claim that Rick Ross's decision to update his cover art for Champagne Moments was likely due to receiving a "cease & desist" from the Drake lookalike Rozay had initially used on the cover for his diss track.

"It’s a picture of a real life person, I'm sure he got a cease & desist so he just changed it to an ai generated pic" - one individual suggested.

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Recapping the "Drake vs Rick Ross" beef

Drake and Kendrick Lamar stole the headlines for over a month when they dropped back-to-back diss tracks, firing heavy allegations at each other, from Drizzy claiming K-Dot's relationship was filled with instances of infidelity to Kenny alleging the OVO CEO had fathered a secret daughter.

Amongst these diss tracks, Rick Ross decided to release his own Drake-aimed record titled Champagne Moments, on April 16, 2024. This decision seemed to have been instigated after Drizzy called out Rozay, amongst many others, on his first diss track titled Push Ups.

Rozay spent most of his diss track dropping heavy accusations at Drizzy, from alleging a dependency on ghostwriters to claiming Drake had received multiple cosmetic surgeries recently. The record appeared to find Ross painting the OVO CEO as an inauthentic rapper who only succeeded because of high-profile connections within the industry.

Drake would then respond to Rick Ross on the track Family Matters, where he discusses the false allegations of getting cosmetic surgery before making fun of Rozay by implying he only wants a part of this beef because he's jealous of Drizzy's success.

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The iconic beef has since died down, with most of the rappers moving on from the diss war. Drake took it a step further and deleted all his diss tracks from Instagram on June 5. This is part of the reason why Ross has been receiving a lot of criticism for updating his cover art, almost two months after his beef with Drizzy.