How did the beef ignite between Pusha T and Drake? Well it goes back to his mentors days, Lil Wayne who jacked The Clipse!
Back then Lil Wayne wasn’t a thought on the airwaves, he was still developing his solo sound and image. Pusha and his brother No Malice called out Weezy with a little help from Pharell. Read on…
The Beef started back in 2006 between Clipse and Lil Wayne when Wayne jacked their style wearing Bap clothing on his VIBE cover. The Clipse FIRED back with “Mr. Me Too.”
You will notice in the video “Mr. Me Too” produced by The Neptunes is a direct shot at Lil Wayne who did a revamp of his look. After he jacked the Clipse style wearing BAPE clothing.
Wayne was coming of the success off the 2005 Tha Carter II album, which was also the rise of Young Money Cash Money [YMCMB]. Wayne was feeling himself at the time, but what the Clipse pointed that Young Money was acting real NEW MONEY.
The video is still relevant today because there are so many Mr. Me Too’s in hip-hop its an epidemic.
Lil Wayne and King Push’s feud died off until 2011 when T decided to drop a track called “Don’t F**k With Me” which was a direct shot a Wayne and Drake.
At that time, Drake was one of the biggest rappers on the rise at the time.
Pusha T came back harder with “Exodus 23.1”
T broke down how foolish Drake was to sign with a dude (Lil Wayne) who is signed by another dude (Birdman) who doesn’t pay his artists. He points out the YMCMB is signed to a label that’s signed to UMG. Basically, Drake is signed to Young Money, that is under Cash Money, that is under Republic Records that is under Universal Music Group. It’s basically a lose-lose.
Not only that, Wayne and Baby have been feuding the whole time and fans are still waiting for Tha Carter 5 to drop. That may happen since Wayne is now with Roc Nation and he and Bird have gone their own ways. Cash Money is still signing artists, but still, artists are not getting paid.
After that, Wayne was out of the mix, bu Drake continued to fire shots at Push with subliminal lyrics in his songs like “Tuscan Leather,” which lyrics are:
That shit I heard from you lately really relieved some pressure/Like aye, B I got your CD, you get an E for effort/I piece letters together and get to talkin’ reckless/I don’t change like credentials, you know you see the necklace/My life’s a completed checklist/I’m tired of hearin’ ’bout who you checkin’ for now/Just give it time, we’ll see who’s still around a decade from now/That’s real
Pusha FIRED BACK in 2016 with “HGTV” (Drake Diss):
The lyrics read as follows:
It’s too far gone when the realest ain’t real/I walk amongst the clouds so your ceilings ain’t real/These niggas Call of Duty cause their killings ain’t real/With a questionable pen so the feelin’ ain’t real/Rap’s John Grisham/I can paint the picture with the words if you listen (shh)/The bar’s been lowered, the well’s run dry/They beefin’ over melodies, but no, not I (yugh)/See I’m so top 5/If they factor in the truth I just might blow by/Blowbama
After that Drake had the cover So Far Gone to respond back to Push and then his album Nothing Was The Same with his heads in the clouds. This all went down between 2011 and 2016.
Then Drak finally RESPONDED to Pusha T with his track “Two Birds One Stone.”
Gave back to the city and never said it/If I didn’t live it but still they try to tell you I’m not the realest/Like I’m some privileged kid that never sat through a prison visit/Or like it was just handed to me tied with a ribbon/I never worked to get it/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 niggas/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 trying to sell that story for the rest of your lives
That is the beefs origin.
via LyricHub
