New York Daily News

Drake confirms he’s a dad

- Peter Sblendorio

Drizzy is a dad.

Hip hop star Drake reveals on his new album that he did indeed father a child — weeks after speculatio­n about his paternity was sparked by a Pusha T diss track.

“She’s not my lover like Billie Jean, but the kid is mine,” Drake, 31, raps on his new song “March 14,” making a reference to the Michael Jackson song “Billie Jean” about a man who denies a child is his.

He then raps that his mother had told him “all it takes is one time.”

“And all it took was one time,” Drake says. “S--t, we only met two times.”

He later raps, “Single father, I hate when I hear it.”

The rapper also refers to the child in his song “Emotionles­s,” in which he says, “I wasn’t hiding my kid from the world. I was hiding the world from my kid.”

Rumors that Drake had a child with former adult film actress Sophie Brussaux began to run rampant late last month after Pusha T released a song called “The Story of Adidon,” in which he raps of Drake, “You are hiding a child, let that boy come home.”

Drake had remained tightlippe­d until he released his new songs — which appear on his latest album “Scorpion” — late Thursday night.

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