Drake quietly parted ways with the booking agent he shared with longtime rival Kendrick Lamar earlier this year, Billboard has learned, in a move largely kept quiet to avoid media scrutiny.

One source tells Billboard that Drake and former longtime agent Brent Smith of Wasserman Music have not worked together for most, if not all, of 2025 due in part to the fallout over last year’s feud with Lamar and the release of his Billboard Hot 100-topping diss track “Not Like Us.”

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Drake had been repped by Smith for more than a decade; the two began working together at

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