CELEBRITY NEWS: Drake defends working with Rihanna's ex Chris Brown: 'I didn't want her to ever feel disrespected'

Drake is doing a lot of disclosing in a new podcast interview for Rap Radar. In a lengthy conversation with hosts Elliott Wilson and Brian "B.Dot" Miller totaling more than two hours, the Canadian rapper touched on his relationships — good and bad — with some of the biggest names in music: Pusha T, Kanye West, Jay-Z and his former flame, Rihanna .
Collaborators on tracks like “What’s My Name?” and “Take Care,” the pair have also enjoyed a long on-off romance, and were most recently linked in 2016 , the year they released “Work” and “Too Good.” While they’ve each moved on romantically — she is dating Hassan Jameel, while he’s rumored to have had a recent fling with Kylie Jenner — Drake raised eyebrows this summer when he partnered up with an unexpected collaborator: Chris Brown.
Brown — whose June single “No Guidance” features an appearance by Drake — famously dated Rihanna in the late 2000s. In February 2009, the singer was arrested for assaulting his then-girlfriend, who was photographed with visible injuries on her face. That June, Brown pleaded guilty to a felony and accepted a plea deal which included counseling for domestic violence. Despite the backlash facing Brown, Rihanna briefly reunited with him in 2013, insisting to Rolling Stone that he was “not the monster everybody thinks.” The singers broke up a few months later.