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After dropping the highly anticipated “Nokia” video, Drake made some merch available on his website, and Joe Budden Podcast co-host Melyssa Ford isn’t happy about it.
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On DrakeRelated.com, the Toronto rapper is selling a “Hot Moms Vixen” hoodie with an image of Ford and lettering that says videovixens.ca on the back. And while the web address redirected to the podcast’s Patreon page at first, it now redirects to Ford’s Hot & Bothered with Melyssa Ford podcast YouTube page.
Of course, the pod talked about the hoodie, and when asked if she was given a head’s up, Melyssa Ford said she wasn’t and “woke up to it” like everybody else. She then mentioned that the website that’s printed on top of her image redirects to the pod’s Patreon page. “There is a jacket with my image on it,” she explained. “And underneath it, it says ‘videovixex.ca.’ So, dot c-a is dot com in Canada. You click on that link and it take’s you to Joe’s Patreon.”
She added: “What the f—k is going on? Where’s my check? Where’s my f—king check? That’s what the f—k I want to know.”
She then claimed that she may own the image because it’s from her first calendar and said that she sent Drake a DM about the situation. “There’s a possibility that I do own it,” she suggested. “There’s a possibility that I shot that for my first calendar… I sent a DM, said, ‘Hey.’”
While Drake and Budden’s rift goes back a ways, the former recently mentioned Budden and Ford on the $ome $exy $ongs 4 U song “Gimme a Hug” where he raps, “Melyssa Ford, you a legend from the 6, hate to see you with a d—ksucker,” in reference to Joe’s analysis of his battle with Kendrick Lamar last year.
