Offset says he was stung by Ric Flair’s recent claim that the rapper made a fortune from “Ric Flair Drip” while the wrestling legend saw only a fraction of it. The Atlanta artist insists the opposite is true: he went out of his way to make sure Flair was paid at all.
“Ric Flair hurt my feelings though, man,” Offset said. “That’s my brother, man, but he hurt my feelings.”
The hurt stems from an interview in which Flair put a stark number on the gap between them. Offset recalled that Flair “said I made like 70 million off Ric Flair drip and he made 40,000 or something.”
The remark caught Offset off guard because it broke with the tone Flair had always taken about the song. According to Offset, every time Flair had spoken about it before, “it was always good, positive.”
At the center of Offset’s response is a point about ownership. The Ric Flair name, he explained, is not Flair’s to license. “WWE own the name,” he said.
That meant the obligation ran to the company, not to the wrestler himself. Offset said he had to pay WWE but chose to make sure Flair shared in the money anyway. “I made sure he got paid cuz he wasn’t supposed to, bro,” he said.
He also stressed that he brought Flair into the song’s wider promotional run rather than simply using his name.
I made sure I had him involved,” he said, pointing to a joint television appearance on Jimmy Fallon that he said pulled 12 million views.
Offset described a relationship that, until the interview, seemed warm and grateful on both sides. He recalled Flair calling him to share good news about what the record had done for him.
“Yo, I just got this bag, like you put me back in the game with this song,” Offset said, recounting one of those calls.
The song’s reach extended well beyond music, with a weed strain carrying the Ric Flair Drip name also coming up as part of the record’s legacy. Offset remembered another call too.
He called me when he got the Rolls Royce,” he said, adding that Flair was “still styling and profiling,” a nod to the wrestler’s famous catchphrase.
The $70 million figure itself drew immediate disbelief. As the discussion noted, very few songs released in the last 20 years have made $70 million on their own, making the claim difficult to take at face value.
Offset did not lay out his own earnings from the track, but his account made clear he views the number as far off the mark.
His larger frustration appears to be less about the money and more about the public framing, which he feels erased the effort he made to look after Flair.
Despite the disappointment, Offset kept the door open. He spoke of Flair throughout as family and said he still regularly sees him around.
“I love you though, Ric, man,” he said.
For Offset, the episode is a reminder of how quickly goodwill between collaborators can sour once figures enter the public conversation. By his telling, “Ric Flair Drip” was a song that lifted both men, and he is not willing to let the record show otherwise.
