Pusha T isn’t any stranger to rap beef, and he thinks “it is loopy” that Drake in the end resorted to authorized motion towards Common Music Group (UMG) and Spotify over Kendrick Lamar’s No. 1 diss observe, “Not Like Us.”
In a Saint Periods dialogue with Ari Melber at Artwork Basel in Miami on Saturday, Dec. 7, Push was requested if he agrees that Lamar received the meat towards Drake, to which he enthusiastically replied, “1,000%.”
“I feel that Kendrick is a lyricist, and a lyricist that talks to your soul,” Push mentioned. “You could be intelligent, you’ll be able to say cute issues, you are able to do issues in cadences and so forth and so forth, proper? However the fact actually hurts, and the reality cuts deep. And I feel what Kendrick was doing was speaking to his soul. I consider that, and I consider that will trigger you to faucet out. That’ll trigger you to sue. That’ll trigger you to do loads of issues.”
On Nov. 25, the 6 God filed a petition in a Manhattan court docket alleging that Common Music Group (which he is signed to) and Lamar artificially inflated streaming numbers for “Not Like Us,” the scathing diss observe that, amongst different issues, calls Drake a “licensed pedophile.” The petition even alleges that UMG was in cahoots with Apple, claiming that when asking Siri to play his album Licensed Lover Boy, “Not Like Us” would play as a substitute (though a number of individuals declare Siri pulls from the track’s lyrics except you particularly say “Play Licensed Lover Boy by Drake”).
Whereas Drake is taking authorized motion due to Kendrick Lamar’s observe, the Compton rapper is NOT listed as a defendant in both of the petitions. As a substitute, Drizzy put the accountability on UMG for failing to stop the discharge of “Not Like Us.” In fact, it will be towards UMG’s pursuits to stop the discharge of the observe contemplating it landed at No. 1 on Apple Music’s year-end world songs charts, no matter how Drake feels in regards to the content material of the track.
Pusha T is not the one one that thinks it is “loopy” that Drake has resorted to taking authorized motion. Final month, Joe Budden referred to as out Drizzy in a scathing rant and referred to as him “a egocentric, mendacity, manipulative sack of shit.” Dame Sprint, in the meantime, believes that Drake has benefitted from the identical ways he accused UMG of utilizing with “Not Like Us.” Even Stephen A. Smith has urged Drake to both reply to “Not Like Us” with one other diss observe or simply admit defeat.
It is exhausting to overlook that Pusha T had his personal beef with Drake. The 2 traded subs for years after Push’s 2012 track “Exodus 23:1,” which is believed to be a diss about Younger Cash, notably Lil Wayne and Drizzy. I imply, simply try this line: “Contract all fucked up/ I assume which means you all fucked up/ You signed to at least one n***a that signed to a different n***a/ That is signed to a few n***as, now that is unhealthy luck.”
The meat escalated in 2018 when Push accused Drake of utilizing a ghostwriter on his Daytona reduce “Infrared.” In lower than a day (however not as quick as Lamar’s report response time), Drake dissed Ye and Push on “Duppy Freestyle,” accusing each of them of being “leeches” amongst different issues.
Pusha T then introduced out the large weapons with “The Story of Adidon,” that includes single art work of Drake in blackface make-up. Within the scathing diss heard ‘around the world, the rapper took offense to Drake title dropping his then-fiancee by revealing that the “Passionfruit” rapper had a baby with artist and former grownup movie star Sophie Brussaux. Stories surfaced the yr prior that she was pregnant with Drake’s little one, which his representatives tried to squash instantly by claiming she was mendacity to get into the USA.
He then name-dropped Drake’s then-unknown son, saying, “Adonis is your son/ And he deserves greater than an Adidas press run, that is actual/ Love that child, respect that lady/ Overlook she’s a pornstar, let her be your world.”
For what it is value, Drake did take the L. In an interview with Rap Radar a yr later, he mentioned it was his “first loss within the aggressive sport of rapping.” Most likely explains why he does not need to take his second.