Mustard has clarified rumors that he was taunting Drake while filming Kendrick Lamar’s video for the diss track “Not Like Us.”
The producer was spotted wearing a Toronto Blue Jays cap, representing Drake’s hometown baseball team, sparking speculation that it was a subtle jab at the 6 God.
In an interview with Big Boy, Mustard addressed the speculation: “I wasn’t trolling. I really wasn’t trolling. I bought a lot of hats that I like. I bought an STL hat, an Angels hat, a Braves hat. I put Faith of a Mustard Seed [the title of his new album] on all of them.
“I sweated out two of my hats at Pop Out [Kendrick Lamar’s Inglewood concert], and that was the last hat that I had with Faith of a Mustard Seed on it. It just happened to be a Toronto Blue Jays hat.”
The multi-platinum producer also explained that the cap was a nod to Baldwin Village, the notorious South Los Angeles neighborhood known as “the Jungles” where he grew up.
“I grew up in the Jungles, we all wear that hat,” he said. “I mean, I wear the NY hat — that’s Nip’s hat, the neighborhoods. Our hats mean a lot of different things, so I never thought that much into it like, ‘Oh, I’m tryna troll y’all.’”
“If I was on that, then I woulda probably wacked the Blue Jay off and put an X between it,” he joked. “I wasn’t on that, though.”
Mustard also revealed that he was unaware his beat was going to be used for “Not Like Us,” which reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100.
“I made that beat on my manager’s birthday [April 6],” he told XXL. “I sent [Kendrick] maybe three [beats] that day. He just hearted it. I didn’t hear it ’til [the song] came out.”