Drake and Pusha T Beef Escalation Meme

Anybody can get touched.

Let's rewind to May 25 when Pusha T dropped "Daytona," a seven-track record of which "Infrared" is the only one of involvement. In information technology, the rapper takes multiple jabs at fellow musician Drake, accusing him of being an industry hack who doesn't write his own rhymes. Drake responded with " Duppy Freestyle " a few hours later, following his usual rap beefiness blueprint about recently demonstrated in his attacks on Meek Mill . He grabbed his best weapon, Instagram, and posted an invoice for $100,000 addressed to Pusha's Thou.O.O.D Music label requesting funds for "career reviving." Then he dropped a second song from his upcoming anthology, "I'm Upset," that takes more than subtle shots at Pusha, the post-obit day.

The tracks were exciting plenty to land on many a gym playlists, helping us push through a final set of burpees. But both lacked the lyrical cruelty that underlines a true rap beef — remember Jay-Z vs. Nas — and focused on older complaints: Drake has a ghostwriter named Quentin Miller and Pusha is embellishing his drug-dealing past.

Yawn.

But on May 29, Pusha continued the Memorial Mean solar day weekend escalation of the 2 rappers' longstanding beef by releasing "The Story of Adidon." The multifaceted, deeply layered diss track comes for Drake's cervix in quite a few ways. While this tea isn't fresh, its packaging is what makes it every bit effective as a shot of espresso.

Pusha took the most emotionally provocative tidbits of Drake'due south life and the struggles of those close to him, and jabbed at the rapper over and over again. It's incredibly cruel and, honestly, brilliant. Here are some of the points information technology covers:

• Drake'southward supposed struggle with his biracial identity.
• How his parents, Dennis and Sandi Graham, dissever when he was 5. Pusha then noted how ironic it is to him that Drake scoffs at marriage yet his mother never remarried.
• His idolization of Dennis and how information technology highlights Drake's "deadbeat motherfucker" status with the baby he allegedly had with Sophie Brussaux. (Nosotros've since learned that the rapper does financially support the child, just every bit freelancer William Ketchum pointed out, this isn't most money — it's about his interest in his child'south life.)
• How Drake keeps both Sophie and the baby subconscious from the public eye.
• That Drake was allegedly planning to feature his son in an alleged future collaboration with Adidas.
• Drake's longtime producer Noah "forty" Shebib's potentially fatal battle with Multiple Sclerosis. (The track dropped one twenty-four hour period before Globe MS Twenty-four hour period and prompted the National Multiple Sclerosis Society to respond .)
• Drake's allegedly fucked-up record deal with Young Money, a subsidiary of Cash Money Records, which is run past Birdman and whose parent company is Universal Music Group. Birdman has long been accused of underpaying artists, not paying them at all, and other horrid business practices. ( You can read up on this mess here .)
• Pusha chose to spit his lethal confined over "The Story of OJ" trounce, Jay-Z's honour-winning critique of racial self-loathing and disavowing blackness. And, for good measure out, the anthology art is a 2008 photo of Drake in blackface.

Pusha has successfully parlayed surface-level complaints about goofy boy-next-door Drake not writing his own tracks and idolizing his absent-minded father into deeper questions about his truthful graphic symbol. He threw Drake, who thrives on pettiness and surface-level insults and picks fights with rappers who don't have every bit much mainstream clout as him, out of his element.

And Taryn Finley and Julia Craven are here for it. On this edition of "Run That Back," the duo is joined by Vibe's Desire Thompson to discuss Drake's feelings (is he OK?), how Pusha T has been playing chess for years and, of course, the memes.

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Julia : Drake don't want this smoke. He don't.

Taryn : For me, it'south fuck Aubrey and fuck Terrance. I'grand hither for the jokes.

Julia : Pusha basically said, "I am not Meek Mill."

Taryn : He really did though! Drake was playing Jenga while Push button was shooting craps in a whole different league.

Julia : Drake was playing with Teletubbies and Pusha was playing with guns.

Taryn : That's even more accurate. Naught to 100. Couldn't even recover from the holiday weekend. Drake should've just sabbatum in that location and ate his food.

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Julia : RT Drake should've just sat there and ate his food. But, Desire, nosotros'd like to start at the showtime and walk our way through things with all these layers. Then let'south bounciness to you. Walk us through this beef which has become very hostile, very fast.

Want : Where do we start? Button and Drake have had bug since the early aughts when Drake was almost grandfathered into Button's beefiness with Baby and Wayne . Drake has been rather sneaky in his responses to Push over the years, simply I think the Meek drama put the battery in his back to come as hard as he did in the "Duppy Freestyle."

People are seeing Push equally a not bad, but don't realize Drake and Wayne accept also participated in this DECADELONG BEEF. Considering hip-hop fans accept the attention spans of goldfish, all of that went out the window final weekend when Push called him out on "Infrared."

Taryn : But did Drake come hard or did he come petty?

Desire : He came in his feelings. *Ella Mai voice*

Julia : LMAOOOO.

Taryn : Cause I honestly think "Dorsum to Dorsum" was better than "Duppy."

Desire : Actual factuals.

Julia : Meek is an easier target than Push though. A walking meme. Push will shoot you.

Desire : Drake was honestly surprised Kanye and Push had anything to say about him which is why he sounded so annoyed on "Duppy."

Taryn : And why he was surprised at the "brazenness" on "I'm Upset," I'1000 certain.

Desire : Just yous tin't exist a hypocrite and expect people to kiss your donkey all the time considering of your Billboard hits.

Julia : Not gonna lie, that sigh took me out and yet takes me out. But to get dorsum to the slap-up stuff, I retrieve people forget that this is hip-hop and anything is fair game. Drake opened this door talking well-nigh Virginia Williams and Pusha walked on through it.

Taryn : OMG! I forgot about that Pac part. Shit.

Desire : Pac talked nearly Queen Religion Evans . This is hip-hop and I lub it smelly much.

Desire : His mom fabricated him apologize , which is across funny to me. But w hat was the all-time office of "Adidon," baby reveal aside?

Julia : I actually enjoyed "deadbeat motherfucker, playing border patrol."

Desire : I love the function in "Adidon" where Push button says, "The K's count different when Baby divides the pie" since this means Babe is still stealing money from Wayne and Drake.

Taryn : THAT is the part that got me, Desire. (After the initial shock from the greasepaint subsided.) Become at that nigga's fucked-up contract!

Desire : Correct!

Taryn : That's why Drake always on tour. Gotta pay twenty niggas earlier he sees whatsoever profit.

And perhaps I'm soft but I still think Push is wrong af for that 40 line. I love a adept diss rail ("No Vaseline" is prob my fave next to "Hitting Em Up"), but damn. And tomorrow is MS Awareness day.

Desire : The MS association put out a argument about information technology, too. Meh, I don't think it was that bad.

Julia : Information technology was foul, but it was fair game and nowhere near equally bad as Pac starting a track with "I fucked your bitch, yous fat motherfucker."

Desire : That'due south similar when anybody saw those pics of Jet Li and idea he was dying and it turns out it was just bad lighting.

Taryn : Oh shit LMAO. But the alleged baby ... we all knew, though. Right?

Julia : Oh yeah. Sophie is like, what? The second baby mama?

Desire : I call up Sophie is the just babe moms.

Desire : Sophie's Instagram page is individual now, but they obviously cleaned it up recently since people were going to find out who she was with the baby reveal. Also, I'm non surprised Drake has a baby.

Julia : Drake seems trappable via vagina and via bad tape deal, tbh.

Desire : Infant is the evil villian in all of this tbh. He's the real Thanos.

Taryn : Aubrey means "to trap" in Canadian French.

Julia : Ma'am.

Taryn : Shit. I'd trap Drake, too. You lot wouldn't?

Julia : I didn't say that lmao.

Desire : Pusha T and Quentin accept music together too.

Taryn : Ooooh. Give me a receipt, sis.

Julia : Wait, they practice?

Desire : Yess. Push talked about it on the Breakfast Club . They put out a song in 2015 right when the ghostwriting thing was happening.

Julia : Pusha been out hither playing chess.

Taryn : Plot thicker than an opossum with the mumps.

Desire : PUSH IS A GENIUS. This isn't tea. This is hearty stew.

Julia : I just peeped that the song earlier Infrared is "What Would Meek Exercise?" Jesus.

Taryn : SHIT!

Want : The opener is "When You Know Yous Know." OH HE KNEW ALRIGHT!

Julia : This is mac n cheese. This is collards. This is fried craven. Soul food beef. Oxtails.

Taryn : And then, allow me slow my praise of Push, because it'due south withal fuck him and Kanye for that disrespectful ass album cover. They need to go to Whitney's grave and beg for forgiveness earlier I play that album. Simply the nigga still won this one.

Desire : Yep. There could've been another style to speak on his arts and crafts than paying $85,000 for that photo.

Julia : The album cover was bad. Very bad. It was unthoughtful, unoriginal, unprovocative trash.

Taryn : Drake be taking L's but not like this.

Want : Terrible and the style Kanye threw pink over information technology was some lame Microsoft Paint shit. Drake hasn't had a L like this since Rihanna exposed him. And that was literally five mins ago lol.

Taryn : Literally. That's where he went wrong. He got on Ri's bad side. When she unfriends yous, the world does, as well.

Desire : All of this is happening and no one cares virtually the following: Kanye'southward album is coming Friday, Bow Wow is walking around in a straitjacket and ASAP Rocky's new album.

Taryn : All of the in a higher place tin miss me, tbh.

Julia : That Bow Wow photo still has me in tears. His TL is a goldmine of bullshit.

Desire : Issa fail.

Taryn : Shad really won't leave the states alone.

Desire : What tin Drake do become back on our good side?

Julia : I wanna circle back to the fact that Pusha called Drake a tragic mulatto with daddy bug at some point.

Desire : Perchance he can requite abroad a agglomeration of money to people in demand? Oh, he did that already.

Taryn : Drib an album, tbh. Capriccio sangria papi is never gonna fall completely.

Julia : I don't think Drake bounces back from this. He has to take his L.

Want : Julia, every bit a biracial butterfly, I gotta say the identify issues role took a feeling from me.

Taryn : I still demand an explanation for that. That was literally the most bizarre part about this to me and left the ugliest taste in my mouth, especially given Drake's proximity to whiteness.

Julia : I uncertainty you lot'd be outchea in blackface though!

Desire : They were trying to do some Spike Lee Conned shit, merely it was not thought-out well at all. You're not taking power from blackface by wearing blackface. You're merely wearing blackface and wypipo will honey it and use it as point of reference in any argument nearly black culture.

Julia : Exactly! And if goose egg else, Drake has to explicate that. And the fact that Pusha rapped over "The Story of OJ," which is nigh black cocky-loathing and disavowing your black ...

Desire : That's another fave aspect of this track. The layers are amazing. Also, I think Kanye was the one who shared all the Adidas deets with Push. Pero similar, your neighbor (they live next to each other in Calabasas) only exposed all your skeletons.

Julia : Adidon being a play on Adonis and Adidas blew my mind. Now when you search for information technology though, the track comes up. He ruined Drake'southward line before it dropped. Chess.

Desire : It was perfect.

Taryn : I'one thousand honestly all the same trying to wrap my heed around it all. Like Push really ethered this man on and then many levels. Information technology's disrespectful. How upset are you now, Drizzy? Cause I'thousand appalled for you.

Desire : He was thinking wayyyy alee and that'south what rap beefs are supposed to do after all.

I'm so appalled. *Kanye voice*

Taryn : That's why he took three days to respond rather than the microwave Stouffer'due south quality shit Drake gave (which was tasty enough but not a home-cooked meal).

Julia : Drake has to drop an IG pic with the "Focusing on me" explanation and disappear.

Want : Drake should only gather his minions and have a meeting about the next move. Kanye was also supposed to a have a poetry on "Overnice For What" but information technology was scrapped. I bet information technology was terrible.

Taryn : Kanye and "Dainty for What" need to never be in the same sentence. I'one thousand all the same disgusted past Kanye, tbh, and he doesn't demand to ruin one of my fave summer 2018 songs.

Desire : Same.

Julia : Aforementioned. Drake should have seen this coming though, right? He kept tryna be difficult and await what happened.

Desire : I don't think he predicted Button to get that personal. He has a very "untouchable" vibe about him, which I become. He's done a lot in his career just y'all aren't above GETTING THIS SMOKE BOI.

Julia : Anybody can become touched. Drake forgot that.

Want : They all did. Kanye, Nicki, etc.

Taryn : You lot know who Drake knew not to examination, though? Hov. Drake used to be strategic about who he'd respond to but he got self and underestimated Push. Now await what happened.

Julia : Nicki? Who'south that? 🌚

Want: LOL — Of course he's non going to endeavour Hov.

Julia : Drake also knows non to try Kendrick.

Taryn : That also!

Desire : HE WOULD NEVER! Cornrow Kenny would trunk him in the start bar.

Julia : "And goose egg was the same since they dropped command and tucked a sensitive rapper back in his pajama clothes." 🌚Kendrick said that bar was most Papoose but I don't believe that.

Want : Drake has been tight about "Command" for so long.

Taryn : Shit, I felt similar Kendrick was taking shots at ME on "Control."

Desire : I too, felt personally victimized by "Control."

Want : Do you lot all think there is a winner in this beef? I remember hip-hop wins tbh. We get a reminder of what bar for bar rap is.

Taryn : Look, I beloved rap beefiness so I feel similar the winner here.

Want : And kids are taught what life was like earlier internet rap beef.

Taryn : Actually, the internet won. Cause these jokes folks are getting off are improve than the actual beefiness, tbh.

Julia : Actually, Funkmaster Flex won. Now earlier you elevate me, permit me explain.

Desire : jgherjhlsrhgr

Taryn : LMAOjnhtefjnvefug MA'AM !

Julia : 🗣AIN'T NOBODY LISTENED TO FLEX LIKE THAT SINCE THE Cyberspace GOT POPPIN Eight YEARS Ago, BUT WE ALL TUNED IN LAST NIGHT AIN'T We?

Desire : I agree with yous, Julia. Flex got his revenge. OMG remember when Drake was freestyling from his phone on Hot 97?! Another layer in Pusha Teaaa rollout.

Taryn : Damn. Y'all right, though. All them damn bombs. I be ducking every time I listen to his evidence. Centre racing.

Julia : He talks then much.

Desire : So much empty passion. Like, chill out my guy.

Julia : My bf chosen me and was like, "Turn on Hot 97 right now." And I'm like ... "Why in the fuck is he telling me to mind to Hot 97 during Flex'due south 100 hour block in the 2018th twelvemonth of our Lord?"

Desire : I heard it on Soundcloud so I'm glad I missed the flop.

Julia : Information technology was bomb afterwards flop after bomb.

Desire : I wonder what he does if that button doesn't work.

Taryn : Shit, that makes me wanna pitter-patter up in their studio and fuck up the button.

Desire : Or switch it to some other audio — like the sound you hear when you telephone call someone's disconnected phone.

Taryn : You think information technology'southward big and cherry similar the ones they sell at Staples?

Desire : LOL mayhap!

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Desire: Terrance Killmonger.

Julia : THE MEMES, THE TWEETS, THE INTERNET.

Want :

Julia : dsjfckldsjfdsfudsehfljr

Taryn : HOLLERING ! WHOOOO PHOTOSHOPPED THIS BABY IN HIS HAND?

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Desire : I just wanna know whose infant is that in that pic.

Julia : I love how this became an instantly meme-able moment.

Taryn : I mean, yo fave rapper got a secret son, besides, but they were just smart about hiding him. Allegedly. 🌚

Julia : I want this to be ugly.

Desire : Everyone got surreptitious babies.

Taryn : All yo faves secretly with child.

Want :

Julia : On that note, I am leaving lmao. I don't have anything else to say!

Taryn : I don't have anything else to say either.

Desire : Thanks for having me ladies, this was fun! AND THEY SAY At that place ARE NO WOMEN Covering HIP-HOP.

*insert permanent smirk*

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