Drake is FINALLY opening up about fatherhood on LeBron James’ The Shop, a new unscripted series on HBO.  Back in June, the world found out that Drake fathered a child when he spoke about it on his Scorpion album.  At the time, we knew his son’s name, which is Adonis and the reveal of his mother – a French artist and former adult-film star, Sophie Brussaux.  Adonis is now 1-years old and in this interview, we’re learning about him and Drake’s relationship with Sophie.

 

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First thing – Adonis has blue eyes!  Drake showed LeBron a picture of Adonis on his phone saying, “[He has] crazy blue eyes – baby blue eyes.  You know he’s already in the pool shooting the basketball.  He’s gonna get to a certain age, I’m gonna bring him right to ‘Bron’s house and I’ma be like, ‘Yo, summer came at Bronny’s house!'” #Awww

 

 

The question is, how does Drake feel about fatherhood? “I’m just excited!” Drake says.  He explains, “I’m drawing on all of the things I’ve learned from and through my father and the incredible things I’ve learned through my mother about patience, about unconditional love.”  Drake’s parents divorced when he was only five, “I was really hard on my parents for giving me sort of a childhood that I had to wrap my mind around as I grew.  I, multiple times, sort of suggested that they could have done a better job of whatever it was, co-parenting, sticking together, you know, not being so divided.  As life takes shape and teaches you your own lessons, I end up in this situation where I don’t have the fairy tale, like, ‘Oh, Drake started a family with Rihanna and this is like so perfect … it looks so good on paper.’  By the way, I wanted that too at one time.”

 

 

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So what’s his relationship like now with Sophie? “I am a single father learning to communicate with a woman who, we’ve had our moments.  I do want to be able to explain to my son what happened.  But I don’t have any desire for him to not love his mother.  I don’t ever want the world to be angry at his mother.  We have found ourselves in a situation and we are both equally responsible.  Now, I’m just really excited to be a great father. I want [my son] to love his mother and I have to project that energy but, I didn’t come from that.  I came from my mother being like, ‘Nah, your dad is this.’  But one thing, my dad would never speak ill of my mother, ever ever ever, and my mother is the nicest, kindest, sweetest woman, but she’s a woman scorned and a woman, who, you know, is exhausted.”

 

 

On Drake’s Scorpion album, he raps, “Single father, I hate when I hear it / I used to challenge my parents on every album / Now I’m embarrassed to tell them I ended up as a co-parent.”  Drake admitted that he feared telling his mom about his son, “I think I was more scared to tell my mom because my mom has had real belief and real relationships with women in my life like over the course of my years, that I’m sure she would expect or be elated if I were to have gotten one of those women pregnant.  So it was tough for me to tell her that it’s somebody that she’s never met.”

 

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