Rihanna’s choreographer has come to her defence after Drake appeared to take multiple swipes at the singer in the scathing lyrics of his newly released song Fear Of Heights.

The Umbrella hitmaker, 35, and the rapper, 36, were trailed by on-and-off romance rumors from 2009 to 2018, and since their last split there has been speculation that Drake failed to get over her.

On his new song, however, Drake insisted that he had moved on, sneering: ‘Why they make it sound like I’m still hung up on you? That could never be.’

He added: ‘Gyal can’t ruin me,’ which came across as if it might be a snide reference to Rihanna’s accent from her native Barbados.
As the song went on, he sniped that ‘the sex was average with you’ and even seemed to take aim at her current relationship with A$AP Rocky.

Diss track: Rihanna’s choreographer has come to her defence after Drake appeared to take multiple swipes at the singer in the scathing lyrics of his newly released song Fear Of Heights (pictured in 2016)

Brokenhearted: The Umbrella hitmaker, 35, and the rapper, 36, were trailed by on-and-off romance rumors from 2009 to 2018, and since their last split there has been speculation that Drake failed to get over her (pictured in 2010)

Attack: Drake insisted that he had moved on and after a torrent of bile towards his ex, he sneers: ‘And I had way badder b****es than you, TBH’ (pictured in 2016)

‘Better him than me, better it’s not me,’ raps Drake. ‘Yeah, that man, he still with you. He can’t leave you. Y’all go on vacation, I bet it’s Antilles.’
Rihanna and A$AP Rocky have in fact holidayed in the Lesser Antilles more than once, taking multiple couple’s trips to Barbados.
Since then, the couple have welcomed two children into the world together, which may account for Drake’s saying A$AP Rocky ‘can’t leave’ her.
Elsewhere in Fear Of Heights, Drake blares: ‘I’m anti, I’m anti,’ possibly in reference to Rihanna’s latest album Anti, which came out in 2016.
After a torrent of bile towards his ex, who goes unnamed throughout the verse, he insists: ‘And I had way badder b****es than you, TBH.’
While Rihanna hasn’t responded to the ‘diss track’, dancer Parris Goebel, who has frequently collaborated with the star and choreographed her Super Bowl halftime performance, spoke up for her.
Parris took to her Instagram Stories to share a throwback snap of Drake leaning in to kiss Rihanna at the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards.
The moment went viral seven years ago, after Drake professed his love for Rihanna while presenting her with the coveted Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award.

Bitter: As the song went on, he sniped that ‘the sex was average with you’ and even seemed to take aim at her current relationship with A$AP Rocky (pictured with Rihanna this week)

On her side: While Rihanna hasn’t responded to the ‘diss track’, dancer Parris Goebel, (pictured last week) who has frequently collaborated with the star and choreographed her Super Bowl halftime performance, spoke up for her
Speaking to the audience, he said: ‘She’s someone I’ve been in love with since I was 22-years-old. She’s one of my best friends in the world. All my adult life, I’ve looked up to her, even though she’s younger than me.’
Rihanna then went to give him a peck on the cheek as she accepted the award, while Drake appeared to lean in to her a proper kiss, but she pulled away and said something unintelligible.
In 2018, Rihanna spoke to Vogue about their relationship after she rejected his kiss at the VMAs.
She said: ‘Waiting through that speech was probably the most uncomfortable part. I don’t like too many compliments; I don’t like to be put on blast.
She then added: ‘We don’t have a friendship now, but we’re not enemies either. It is what it is.’
Drake and Rihanna were first spotted locking lips in 2009, shortly after her split from Chris Brown, who had savagely beaten her to the point she had to be hospitalized.
Rihanna eventually briefly reunited with Chris, and maintained in public that she and Drake were merely friends with each other.
A wounded Drake reflected to the New York Times in 2010: ‘I was a pawn. You know what she was doing to me?

On blast: Parris took to her Instagram Stories to share a throwback snap of Drake leaning in to kiss Rihanna at the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards

Iconic: The moment went viral seven years ago, after Drake professed his love for Rihanna while presenting her with the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award and tried to kiss her

‘She was doing exactly what I’ve done to so many women throughout my life, which is show them quality time, then disappear. I was like: “Wow, this feels terrible”.’
The following year, he told Elle: ‘At the time it hurt, but she didn’t mean to. I’ll never put that on her. I was hurt because I started to slowly realize what it was.’
Over the next few years he struck a flowery tone in his public remarks about Rihanna, describing her as his ‘ultimate fantasy’ to Rolling Stone in 2014.
In 2016 the pair acquired matching shark tattoos, intensifying the public perception that their relationship was more than platonic, until Rihanna’s Vogue comments two years later.