The Outside from The Inside

COMBOCHAMP VOL. 1 [FULL ALBUM]

Shoji正治 - バーチャルリアリティ

Local 86 & 1969年 : Invisible Planets

Rappers Drake and Pusha T have been including direct and subliminal shots to each other in their music for the past 7 or so years. A couple weeks ago Pusha T released a new album, including a track with several shots at Drake and other members of Drake’s record label. A day later drake responded with a full diss track where he questioned Pusha T’s realness, insulted Pusha T’s close friend and Producer Kanye West, and even mentioned Pusha T’s fiancé’s name. This track dropped on a Friday, and all weekend people were impressed with the track drake made and how he was being aggressive like the contemporary Rap Beefs of the past. But lots of people knew that Drake shouldn’t have got involved with a legendary Rapper like Pusha T.

Fast forward to Monday, and Pusha T drops a response track. The first thing about this track, and perhaps the most damaging to Drake’s commercial reputation, is that for the album artwork, Pusha T was able to uncover an authentic [picture](https://goo.gl/images/AEsTEJ) of Drake in blackface. This picture directly relates to a line from Pusha T’s album, where Pusha T says “I don’t tap dance for the crackas and sing mammie.” Basically saying drake parades himself for white america. Mammie is an archetype of a submissive black woman that worked in a white household post slavery. The concept of mammie closely ties in with the terrible act of dressing in blackface. (From u/NeoSpartacus : "Mammy" is *also* an iconic song in minstral vaudeville. Likely what he was alluding to. It is like saying shuck an' jive.) Now for the track itself, it was a bloodbath. Previously this beef had just consisted of Drake saying that Pusha T didn’t sell as much dope as he claims to have, and Pusha T saying drake doesn’t write his own raps. But according to Pusha T, as soon as drake brought up his fiancé, “all bets were off.” This track gets personal. First Pusha T mentions how the record label Drake is signed to is ripping him off and not giving him nearly as much money as he’s worth. He also mentions how Drake’s father left him when he was 5, and how Drake’s mom never got a wedding ring and was alone for all those years. He then insults drake for letting his dad back into his life and basically using his dad as a prop by dressing him in “a Steve Harvey suit” and using him for photo ops.

Here’s where it goes to a new level. Pusha T reveals that Drake has a child with a pornstar that he’s been hiding. Drake was set to launch an adidas marketing campaign soon with a concept that had yet to be revealed. Pusha T is also signed to adidas, and received secret info that Drake’s marketing campaign was also going to feature his previously unknown son, and this was going to be how he revealed him to the world. Pusha T criticizes drake for being a deadbeat dad and says that his son deserves better than being used for a marketing campaign. Pusha T also calls out Drake for bringing Kanye West into a beef that was just between the two of them, and then responds by taking a shot at drake’s producer/best friend named OVO 40. 40 suffers from multiple sclerosis. Pusha T says “OVO 40 hunched over like he’s 80. Tick tick tick, how much time he got? That man is sick sick sick.”

Pusha T tried to warn drake about responding by claiming to have much more dirt on him, which is suspected to potentially be more damaging than what he’s already revealed. This seems likely given that Drake’s mentor J. Prince, a rap legend, told him not to respond. J. Prince claims that it’s because he doesn’t want drake sinking to Pusha T’s level, but it seems very likely that J. Prince wants drake to fall back to protect his image and their various sponsorships and business ties. So as of now the beef is allegedly over, but Drake has a new album coming soon and many people think he might reignite the beef by taking shots at Pusha T again. Pusha T says he has multiple other diss tracks prepared, but that he’s not going to drop them as long as drake doesn’t respond.

There’s a lot of little things I left out of this description because they wouldn’t make sense to someone that doesn’t follow rap, and I wanted anyone to be able to understand it even if they’re not a rap fan.

Edit: just realize I accidentally wrote Pusha T in a sentence that should have been J. Prince. I said “it seems very likely that Pusha T wants drake to fall back to protect his image” but it should have said “J. Prince wants drake to fall back...”. Again, J. Prince and drake both stand to lose money if Pusha T were to continue revealing things that damage Drake’s carefully sculpted image. J Prince is responsible for Drake ever becoming a star, so it’s unlikely that drake would go against his wishes. There’s been a saying in the rap industry since long before this; “You don’t tell J. Prince no.” The closest comparison I can think of in NFL terms would be like an undrafted free agent getting signed by the Pats and then telling Bellechick to suck his dick. It would never happen. That’s how feared and respected J. Prince is by rappers.

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Pusha T-Exodus 23:1 : this one was mostly a diss for Lil Wayne and Birdman, but Drake also got caught in the crossfire. Drake is signed to Lil Wayne’s Young Money Label, which is a subsidiary of Birdman’s Cash Money record label, which is a subsidiary of Universal Records. Pusha T calls out how the hierarchy of Drake’s record deal is taking money away from him. “Contract all fucked up, I guess that means you all fucked up. You signed to one ni—a, that’s signed to another ni—a, that’s signed to 3 ni—as, now that’s bad luck.”

Favorite Rapper by Pusha T* Tuscan Leather by Drake* Suicide by Pusha T* *-took shots at each other  but weren’t directly diss tracks. You can check them out if you want but they aren’t very important to this saga.

Pusha T-HGTV “It’s too far gone when the realest ain’t real / I walk amongst the clouds, so your ceilings ain’t real / These ni—as Call of Duty ’cause they killings ain’t real / With a questionable pen so the feeling ain’t real.” A reference to the allegations that Drake doesn’t write his own raps.

Drake-Two Birds One Stone “But really it’s you with all the drug dealer stories / That’s gotta stop, though / You made a couple chops and now you think you Chapo / If you ask me though, you ain’t lining the trunk with kilos / You bagging weed watching Pacino with all your ni—a / Like, ‘This what we need to be on,’ but you never went live / You middle-man in this shit, boy, you was never them guys / I can tell, ’cause I look most of you dead in your eyes / And you’ll be tryna sell that story for the rest of your lives.” Drake says that Pusha T greatly embellished his drug dealing past.

Pusha T-Infrared “The lyric pennin’ equal the Trumps winnin’ / The bigger question is how the Russians did it / It was written like Nas, but it came from Quentin.” This is just a more complex and creative way of him questions drakes lyric writing abilities. He’s using the whole Russia/Trump mantra to say drake can’t pen his own lyrics. Basically saying both Drake and Trump needed help. And then “it was written like nas, but it came from Quentin” references a classic Nas song “It was written,” and Quentin Miller, the man who is alleged to have written raps for Drake. so he’s just saying that Drakes lyrics were written by someone, and that someone is Quentin Miller. Later in the song Pusha says “How can you ever right these wrongs, when you don’t even write your songs.”

Drake-Duppy Freestyle -Already covered this one in the OP.

Pusha T-The Story of Adidon - explained in the OP as well.

If you have any questions about the meanings of the lyrics in any of these songs, you can just look the song up on Rap Genius

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