Everything you need to know about the beef between Drake and Pusha T
- Publish date
- Friday, 1 Jun 2018, 9:21AM
Everyone knows about the beef going on between these two and it seems to be blowing up! But How did it start? Why has it popped off again now? Here's a rundown of what's going on and what we know.
So it all started in 2006 when Pusha T fired shots at Lil Wayne for wearing BAPE, which they wore as well and started a feud (ahhhh wow). Meanwhile, Drake signed Lil Wayne's label Young Money.
In 2012, Pusha T fired shots at Drake in ‘Exodus 23:1’. In 2013 Drake comes back with ‘Tuscan Leather’ where he defends his mentor Wayne. Pusha T reignites the fire in 2016 with ‘H.G.T.V’ Freestyle’ where he brings back the claim the Drake uses a ghostwriter.
In 2017, on Drizzy’s “playlist” More Life Drake once again questions the legitimacy of Pusha’s drug-rap style – “you’ll be tryna sell that story for the rest of your lives”.
So we have 2 sides,
Drake with OVO (Drake, PARTYNEXTDOOR, Majid Jordan, dvsn, Baka Not Nice etc) as well as his close allegiances with Lil Wayne, Nicki Minaj.
Pusha with G.O.O.D Music (Pusha T, Kanye West, Big Sean, Desiigner) as well as his close allegiances with Kid Cudi, Travis Scott, 2 Chainz
Okay so here's what's going on now...
May 25th Pusha T released his new Album Daytona where he is firing shots all over the place! On the final track 'Infrared' he fires at Drake and the old beef started all over again.
"It was written like Nas, but it came from Quentin" Pusha raps, this bringing back claims that Quentin Miller acted as a ghostwriter for Drake. Meek Mill was first to bring this up in 2015 and now Nicki Minaj is quick to defend Drake.
Niggaz gon run that Quentin shit in the fkn ground like Drake don’t write 4 himself & OTHERS! Ya enemies will remix, reinvent & TRY 2make u RELIVE some old shit for YEARS 2 come when they have NOTHING ON U! Knock it off. Challenging the chosen ones only awakens the sleeping giant
— Chun-Li (@NICKIMINAJ) May 27, 2018
The next day Drake released the diss track 'Duppy Freestyle'. FYI, 'Duppy' is a Jamaican Patois word that means spirit or ghost, obviously very relevant especially because Kanye and Kid Cudi have a collab coming that they called 'Kids see Ghosts'. It could also be Drake flexing his allegiances as the word is thrown around a lot in UK slang meaning you've wiped someone out.
Let's not forget he calls out Pusha T for his drug dealer rap persona and reminds him Kanye once requested to help him write '30 hours'.
imagine buying a pusha t signed mic off eBay for $200 when you're 17 and then dropping "duppy freestyle" 14 years later. we are in the darkest timeline lmfao. pic.twitter.com/4AJhAFrj5u
— rap is stupid (@ottergawd) May 27, 2018
In the track, Drake said he once bought a signed Pusha T microphone. “I had a microphone of yours, but then the signature faded / I think that pretty much resembles what's been happenin' lately”.
Then, Drake posted to Instagram an invoice that we thiiiiiink means OVO sent G.O.O.D Music and Def Jam a $100,000 bill for promotional assistance and career reviving.
Now it gets juicy, May 30th Pusha T who is president of G.O.O.D Music responds and yup he responded alright. A ruthless diss track called 'The Story of Adidon', claiming Drake had a baby with a pornstar. 'Adidon' being a combination of 'Adidas' and 'Adonis' which is apparently the name of his son!
Champagne Papi or Champagne Papa??? Pusha T painted the picture Drakes dad wasn't around for him and now he's doing the same.
Pusha responded to Drake calling out Kanye taking shots a Drakes producer 40 who has multiple sclerosis "OVO 40, hunched over like he 80, tick, tick, tick”.
drake: you didn’t sell drugs 😎
— Zachary Fox (@zackfox) May 30, 2018
pusha: your producer is gonna die soon
drake:
For everyone saying Push went too far talking about MS let’s not forget when Drake went at Cudi’s mental illness.
— Charlamagne Tha God (@cthagod) May 30, 2018
What's more, the image used is from 2008 when drake wore Jim Crow style blackface.
Please stop referring to this picture as “artwork”...I’m not an internet baby, I don’t edit images...this is a REAL picture...these are his truths, see for yourself https://t.co/gd6vRS3HM8 pic.twitter.com/2el58HEZ8F
— King Push (@PUSHA_T) May 30, 2018
It gets better! Apparently, 'Adidon' is the name of Drakes upcoming Adidas line!
Meanwhile on May 29th Quentin Miller (The supposed ghostwriter for Drake that Pusha mentioned in ‘Infrared’) dropped ‘Destiny (Freestyle)’ but it doesn't really see to have all the answers.
Noah also known as 40, Drakes producer, responded to Pusha's dis with a very respectable tweet.
Coincidentally... tomorrow is World MS Day. https://t.co/5ms9IJwV86
— Noah Shebib (@OVO40) May 30, 2018
Drake hasn't responded yet but sources say he's bringing out a hip hop track that has everyone singing along to Pusha's disses.
the only thing drake can do now is drop a track to make pusha feel bad about hurting his feelings. "you found my blackface pics, man that really scars / i guess the T in Pusha T stands for 'took it too far'"
— demi adejuyigbe (@electrolemon) May 30, 2018
Will Drake respond? Does Pusha have more dirt? Will Kanye speak out? Will there be more allegiances? What about Lil Wayne?
Grab some popcorn and sip some tea, cause it ain't over!
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