The Breakfast Club is known for some classic moments, and their interview with Young Dro and T.I. may end up on that list. The “Shoulder Lean” rapper almost had to throw hands with a member of their entourage after he made jokes about Dro’s sobriety.
During the interview, the 45-year-old rapper opened up about his struggles with drug abuse and having to attend rehab. One of his friends in the background continually laughed and interjected with jokes, which he and Tip engaged with initially. However, when Dro revealed he had an overdose right around the same time his daughter started to use drugs — and the jokes continued — his tone shifted.
“Aye, you finna get slapped,” he said. “I mean, we cool but I’ll slap the sh*t out you ’bout that.” His friend replied “You ain’t gonna slap me now,” and then Dro asked, “What you wanna do?” Fortunately, the “Live Your Life” rapper was there to calm everyone down.
“Aye, look! Remember who you came in with!” T.I. exclaimed. “Remember what we doing here, man. Come on, man. Get this sh*t together, bruh. Aiight?!” Young Dro later gathered himself and apologized to his friend. “I got beside myself,” he said. “I shouldn’t have taken feelings to that. That’s my dude right there. I ain’t finna be slapping no goddamn body.”
Young Dro has previously been vocal about his struggles with drugs. In January 2023, he told VladTV, “As I sit here before you, I am 100 percent clean of everything. 17 months. I’m working on my two years.” Despite that being a celebratory moment, he admitted that it wasn’t easy for him at the time given the rapper lifestyle.
“It’s still a struggle to actually maintain this because I still live a Hip Hop party life,” he admitted to DJ Vlad. “I go out at night. I pay my bills out of clubs and concerts where my peers are smoking and drinking, popping champagne. And that lifestyle is still there. To navigate through it, I feel like I’ve been on this journey for five years already. And that’s just because what I see in the night — to fight through that is like going through terrain in Africa in the jungle.”
