Rap icon Drake seems to have a special interest in cricket and has been placing some bets on the game recently. The songwriter on Monday disclosed how much of his money has gone into gambling.
He is reported to have placed a $750,000 bet on the Royal Challengers Bengaluru to beat the Punjab Kings in an upcoming cricket match.
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His post generated mixed reactions among fans who marveled at how much he was spending on the game. “Oh so we betting on cricket now?” one person wrote.
Early this year, the rapper said he was planning a new chapter of his career, which he believed would make fans “uneasy.”
“U know I grew up non-confrontational and always treated this game as a sport where my pen won gold, but these days the podium has been hard for all of us to ignore,” he wrote on Instagram in March.
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“I understand that this next chapter may leave you feeling uneasy, but I hope you see my honesty as clarity not charity that answers some questions especially about the unanswered texts you’ve been sending me,” he added.
The post came nearly a month after Kendrick Lamar performed his Grammy-winning track Not Like Us at the 2025 Super Bowl halftime show.
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Drake was also spotted at a World Wrestling Entertainment event on March 1, after cancelling some dates on his Australian and New Zealand tour
He was at the ringside at the “Elimination Chamber” show together with rapper Lil Yachty at the Toronto Rogers Centre.
Prior to this, he and his team settled a dispute with iHeartMedia over Not Like Us. The suit was said to be about radio airplay of the song.
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The case was reportedly filed in November, with Drake and his team alleging that iHeartMedia had accepted illegal payments from Universal Music Group (UMG) to boost the radio spins of the Kendrick Lamar diss song.
However, Drake’s legal team recently confirmed that the rapper and iHeartMedia had “reached an amicable resolution of the dispute,” suggesting that both parties were satisfied with the outcome of the legal redress.
