It’s no news that Drake and Pusha T had one of the most personal and brutal beefs in hip-hop history.
Drake and Pusha T’s beef dates back to the mid-2000s, which indirectly started with Clipse (Pusha T and Malice) vs. Lil Wayne. Since Drake was a signee under Young Money, owned by Lil Wayne, he became a target by association.
Pusha T took shots at Drake in 2012 with “Exodus 23:1” and “H.G.T.V. Freestyle” in 2016. Drake, in turn, responded with songs like “Tuscan Leather” in 2013 and “Two Birds, One Stone” in 2016.
Until 2018, when Pusha T fully reignited the beef with his song “Infrared,” which was a direct shot at Drake, accusing him of using ghostwriters. Drake responded immediately with “Duppy Freestyle,” but things took a different turn when Pusha T dropped “The Story of Adidon,” exposing Drake’s secret son while making a mockery of his racial identity.
Drake never responded to this because J. Prince, Drake’s mentor, claimed he advised Drake not to go down that lane with Pusha T any further, as it could escalate into something different.
Ever since then, Drake and Pusha T have not met at any point or suggested they’ve quashed their beef, and both have maintained their distance.
Speaking on Drink Champs, Pusha T revealed he never embarked on the beef with Drake to overtake him in the rap game to begin with and that he had a target audience.
He clarified that people saying Drake bodied him and buried his career is a mere illusion, as his content isn’t similar to someone else’s content, indirectly referring to Drake.
“I don’t understand why it’s an issue. I don’t even understand why people talk about what my content is versus what somebody else’s content is. At this point, I’ve been in this 20 years—like, I’m here to entertain a certain sector of people. I’m not reaching out, trying to get new people and so forth.”
The Virginia rapper further explained that rap started in the streets, and fans trying to impose a certain style on him comes off as to him represents the streets, poverty, and despair
“Rap started in the streets. It and one’s environment:
“Rap started from poverty. It started from despair. It started from just coming outside, talking about your environment.”
Netizens argued that he’s very adamant about adapting to the changing times, storyline, and genres, while stating that he keeps recycling the same storyline over and over and always addressing the streets, dr*gs, and poverty.
Which is becoming boring and a contributing factor to why he didn’t go that far in his career or skyrocketed into mainstream stardom after shaking the industry in 2018 with the story of Drake’s secret son in his diss track “The Story of Adidon”.
