Johnny Manziel wants Drake on his new podcast and promises not to ask him about Kendrick Lamar beef

The Johnny Manziel era has officially begun successful the podcast industry. 

On the 10th day of Manziel's infamous NFL rookie year, the once-great assemblage shot prima backmost is trying to revisit the glory days. His caller podcast, "Glory Daze," launches Thursday, alongside Almost Friday Media. Manziel is present connected a ngo to onshore absorbing guests for his episodes. 

And determination is 1 fig successful peculiar that Manziel admits would beryllium his "dream guest:" hip-hop creator Aubrey Drake Graham, aka Drake.

"I've been friends with Drake for a agelong time, truthful it would beryllium truly chill to beryllium down and person him connected and speech astir immoderate of our relationships and immoderate of his beingness a small bit, truthful I deliberation that would astir apt beryllium a imagination guest," Manziel told Fox News Digital successful an exclusive interview. 

Drake has been a leading figure successful the genre for good implicit a decade. But this past summer, his estimation changed successful the eyes of immoderate fans. 

Drake performs astatine a performance successful St. Louis. (Prince Williams/Wireimage/Getty Images)

Drake has been astatine the halfway of the biggest rap feud of 2024, and arguably, the biggest successful caller years, with a back-and-forth bid of diss tracks betwixt him and rival Kendrick Lamar. The feud resulted successful a full of 9 diss tracks betwixt the 2 rap stars this past summer.

Drake was connected the receiving extremity of 1 of the diss tracks that soared arsenic precocious arsenic immoderate different successful the genre's history, erstwhile Kendrick released "Not Like Us" connected May 4. It has already accumulated implicit 1 cardinal full listens crossed aggregate platforms. 

By Aug. 25, "Not Like Us" had implicit 700 cardinal streams connected Spotify. It was the fastest rap opus to scope the milestone, taking lone 112 days. In its archetypal 24 hours connected YouTube, the euphony video peaked astatine 1.5 cardinal views per hour.

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Lamar and his deed song, owed to its content, enjoyed each that vulnerability astatine Drake's expense. 

But if Drake does extremity up agreeing to spell connected Manziel's caller podcast, helium says helium wouldn't adjacent fuss mentioning the feud with Lamar, not adjacent to get Drake's broadside of the story. 

"I would enactment distant from it each together, it's specified a tiny point," Manziel said. "It's thing radical person made a large constituent retired of, but successful the expansive strategy of things it's specified a tiny blip connected his beingness and his vocation and what he's done. So I astir apt wouldn't."

Still, Manziel admits that he's followed the concern precise intimately this year. 

Johnny Manziel of the Texas A&M Aggies takes the signifier aft helium was picked by the Cleveland Browns during the archetypal circular of the 2014 NFL Draft astatine Radio City Music Hall, May 8, 2014, successful New York City.  (Elsa/Getty Images)

"It was benignant of a viral happening that went for a mates of months there, for a while, truthful you know, I decidedly was pursuing it a small bit," Manziel said. 

The popularity that Lamar has earned from the feud, arsenic galore person declared him the victor of the rap battle, volition culminate successful the show of a beingness successful aboriginal 2025. On Feb. 9, Lamar volition execute the archetypal Super Bowl halftime amusement of his vocation astatine the Caesars Superdome successful New Orleans. 

Fans volition beryllium clamoring for him to execute "Not Like Us" during the show, a amusement that volition beryllium watched by good implicit 100 cardinal people. 

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"I deliberation it's cool, evidently it's a large [thing] for him, and it volition beryllium a large show and the Super Bowl ever has an astonishing halftime show," Manziel said of Lamar's inevitable performance. 

Manziel has a adjacent necktie to Drake, dating each the mode backmost to the highest of the erstwhile quarterback's stardom successful the early-to-mid 2010s. 

Drake was 1 of Manziel's biggest supporters erstwhile helium was coming retired of assemblage astatine Texas A&M and entering the NFL Draft. Drake's endorsement went truthful acold that helium released a azygous titled "Draft Day" dedicated to Manziel, a 2014 first-round prime by the Cleveland Browns. The opus adjacent headlined a soundtrack to a large question representation of the aforesaid name, and played during the credits aft a fictional communicative of a prima backmost who ended up falling successful the draft, similar Manziel did. 

But Drake's endorsement of the erstwhile pro and 2012 Heisman Trophy victor did not bash immoderate bully for the rapper's credibility. 

Drake greets Johnny Manziel during the NCAA Men's Final Four Semifinal betwixt the Kentucky Wildcats and the Wisconsin Badgers astatine AT&T Stadium, April 5, 2014, successful Arlington, Texas.  (Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)

Manziel's NFL vocation ended aft conscionable 2 disappointing seasons earlier a bid of personal issues affected his beingness for galore years to come. These issues included substance addiction and depression. Some theorized that Manziel had fallen unfortunate to "The Drake Curse," which is simply a virally-recorded signifier of Drake's interactions with prima athletes and pro sports teams preceding unfortunate failures. 

Other theorized victims of the Drake curse see Serena Williams astatine the 2015 U.S. Open, the 2015-16 Golden State Warriors, and MMA combatant Conor McGregor aft a humiliating nonaccomplishment to Khabib Nurmagomedov successful October 2018. 

However, Manziel said helium hasn't looked astatine it that way. The erstwhile backmost takes accountability for his ain actions resulting successful however his vocation panned out, and believes it each came down to him. In fact, Manziel has adjacent gone retired of his mode to apologize to Drake for crashing retired of the NFL truthful severely portion representing the hip-hop star. 

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"I don’t deliberation I treated Drake the mode that I should have, with [him] representing the apparel that I was wearing and his OVO marque and his statement and everything. At that constituent successful time, I was truthful selfish that I was dragging everybody that was tied to maine done the mud," Manziel antecedently said connected Shannon Sharpe's podcast successful February. 

"I beryllium those radical an apology and, hopefully, 1 time down the line, I’ll beryllium capable to person the accidental arsenic a antheral to beryllium capable to look him successful the oculus and beryllium capable to bash that."

Former NFL stars Antonio Brown and Le'Veon Bell permission the signifier aft Brown spoke successful enactment of Republican statesmanlike nominee erstwhile President Donald Trump during a run rally Saturday successful Latrobe, Pa.  (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Now, Manziel is hoping for aboriginal interactions with Drake connected an occurrence of "Glory Daze." 

The podcast is Manziel's latest task into the media manufacture aft being the taxable of a critically praised Netflix documentary focused connected his shot downfall and struggles with addiction.

Manziel is entering a competitory abstraction of sports podcasts tally by fashionable erstwhile athletes. But his attack to lasting retired is to item the acheronian broadside of sports and communal intelligence wellness issues for athletes, conscionable arsenic overmuch arsenic the amusive and wins. 

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"For a batch of people, it's not needfully casual erstwhile you're done playing shot and the struggles that comes on with it," Manziel said. 

In summation to Drake, different impermanent that Manziel says helium would perchance beryllium funny successful having connected the amusement is erstwhile NFL prima Antonio Brown. Brown, similar Manziel, has made an effort to leverage a high-profile and arguable representation to carve retired a estimation connected societal media. 

In assorted podcast appearances of his own, Brown has acknowledged that helium mightiness beryllium dealing with CTE and has expressed his passionateness for sharing stories of athletes' past traumas from their sport. 

"He's decidedly a feline that's had an absorbing shot vocation and, present successful his beingness disconnected the field, is inactive advocating for that, truthful I could decidedly spot [myself] sitting down with AB and talking a small spot astir that," Manziel said. 

Brown has besides taken a dense manus successful authorities this predetermination cycle, arsenic he's had an progressive manus successful campaigning for erstwhile President Trump successful the cardinal plaything authorities of Pennsylvania. 

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But similar Drake's feud with Lamar, Manziel said helium has nary involvement successful exploring governmental topics connected the amusement astatine immoderate point. 

"Politics is astir apt thing I volition ne'er get progressive in," Manziel said. 

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