Drake Follows Jungkook on Instagram: Is a BTS Collaboration Imminent?
According to Sportschosun reporter Baek Ji-eun, Canadian rap heavyweight Drake has dropped a follow on BTS member Jungkook — and Jungkook is the lone BTS account Drake's actually tapped.
Darius Rollins, Chief Hip-Hop Critic & Culture Editor·updated July 19, 2026
The breadcrumb lands on top of a May clip where Jungkook posted himself riding a bike with Drake's "Make Me Cry" threading through the audio, the kind of soft signal that doesn't stay soft once both fandoms clock it. No confirmation from either side yet, but the optics alone are loud.
Reading the Receipts
A Drake follow is never just a follow. The man has spent the better part of two decades turning strategic gestures into chart wreckage — more than 300 songs charting on the Billboard Hot 100, a Best Rap Album Grammy for Take Care back in 2011, and a collab résumé that reads like a genre census: The Weeknd, Kendrick Lamar, Lil Baby, PartyNextDoor, French Montana. Jungkook being the only BTS account in Drake's follow list isn't a scroll-by moment. It's a deliberate ping, the kind of move outlets like the World Music Awards flagged the second it went live. Fans jumped straight into the comments — "Is this a collab?" and "A collaboration between legends would be incredible" — which tells you the energy is already mutual even if neither camp has opened their mouth yet.
What the Stakes Look Like
If this actually materializes, it's not a vanity flex. It's a tectonic shift. K-pop's machinery — the coordinated streaming pushes, the multilingual rollout, the fandom infrastructure that can chart a record before it even drops — stacked against Drake's two decades of commercial gravity would produce numbers that don't just chart, they overwhelm the system. For hip-hop, it slots directly into Drake's proven crossover lane with The Weeknd and stretches it through a completely different audience architecture. For Jungkook, it's a passport into Western rap's main floor without the usual R&B middleman. And for the industry at large, a confirmed link would reset the ceiling on what a K-pop-rap hybrid single can do globally.
What to Actually Track
Right now this is a follow, a bike video, and a pile of speculative heat. No official word from either side, no studio sightings, no leaked snippets, no producer tags. If the follow vanishes, the moment evaporates with it. If either side drops another breadcrumb — another Drake audio on Jungkook's feed, a Drake story shot anywhere near Seoul, a tag in the right comments section — this stops being rumor and starts being a countdown.