Drake has issued an apology for comments made on a previous Future collaboration track, which was leaked unintentionally on Wednesday.

In the track, Future - who is also known as Nayvadius DeMun Wilburn - calls Keeping Up with the Kardashians star, Kylie Jenner, a "side piece".

Drake has since taken to his Instagram Stories to issue an apology, and to explain that he does not want any of his friends to feel "disrespected".

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“A song that Mark ran last night on Night Owl sound live set shouldn't have been played,” Drake wrote on his Instagram Stories yesterday.

It's a song that leaked three years ago and got scrapped shortly after. He was just going too deep in the drake/future catalogue. Last thing I'd want to do is wake up having any friends of mine feeling disrespected so I just had to stay that to start off the day [sic]", he continued.

"Yeah, I'm a hater to society / Real s***, Kylie Jenner, that's a side piece / Yeah, I got 20 motherf*****s' Kylies," Future raps in the leaked song.

Drake then name-checks Kylie's older sister, Kendall Jenner, rapping "Yeah, I got 20 damn Kendalls / Young slim baddies and they in Vogue / Yeah, I got 20 f***ing Gigis."

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Back in March, Drake incited the ire of his fans by calling Sophie Brussaux, the mother of his two-year-old son, Adonis, a "fluke".

On his song "Say When", the rapper asserts: "Baby mama fluke, but I love her for who she is."

Fans took to social media to express their thoughts on the apparently dismissive lyric, with one user writing; "Drake is rude as hell … [she] has never said anything bad about you…and she’s a fluke?! He needs to be slapped!"

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Watch as Drake wins the top Billboard 200 Album and thanks Game of Thrones character, Arya Stark:

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Drake issues apology after calling Kylie Jenner a 'side piece'