Recently, Pusha T (once again) spoke up about his battle-turned-ugly with Drake, essentially saying that he talks like he’s really about going to war, only to come up short when it’s time. Even with that in the air, nothing compares to what Drake said on the latest episode of Lebron James’ The Shop:
“People love to say, like rap purists and people who just love confrontation, they love to say, ‘There’s no rules in this s***.’ But there are f***ing rules in this s***… And I’m gonna tell you something, I knew something was gonna come up about my kid. They had to add the deadbeat thing to make it more appealing, which is fine. I understand that. Even that, I was like, OK. The mom and dad thing, whatever. You don’t even know my family. But I’ma tell you, wishing death on my friend that has MS? I study rap battles for a living. Now when you mention defenseless people who are sick in the hospital, that passed away, that really sent me to a place where I just believed then, and believe now, that there’s just a price that you have to pay for that. It’s over. You’re gonna get… someone’s gonna f***ing punch you in the f***ing face. The s***’s done, the event’s over. I wanted to do other things. I didn’t wanna further your reputation or your career by rapping back at you and having this exchange. And that was it for me.”
Taking a step backward, he also used that sit-down to explain his real issues with Kanye West — especially in regards to his supposed role in the “beef” with Pusha T:
“I ended up linking with Ye, and he sold me on this whole speech of like, ‘I’m in a great place, I’m making money, and I’m a father, and I wanna be Quincy Jones and help you, but in order to do that, you’ve gotta be transparent with me. And you gotta play me your music, and you gotta tell me when you’re dropping… And so I was in the studio, guess we all kind of felt a genuine vibe from it. So I play him my music, and I told him when I was dropping.”
“I spent all my time, pretty much working on [Kanye’s] stuff… And again, I left Wyoming with ‘Lift Yourself’ and a pat on the back. Alright, I’ll try to make the most of this and hopefully he sends some more things through. By the way, I’m in Wyoming, I play him ‘March 14’ I send him a picture of my son. I tell him I’m having trouble with my son’s mother. We had a conversation.”
“I wake up, and all these dates are out — all around June 15. Then the next two days, I wake up to this text from him, passive like, ‘Yo, I love you brother’… ‘Lift Yourself’ comes out with him just talking nonsense. ‘Oh this guy’s trolling me.’ This was a manipulative, ‘I wanna break you’ thing. So I said alright. I’m gonna go back to distancing myself again. I know what this is. Then, the first album drops. And of course there’s a diss song towards me that you produced, that’s talking about writing? I was just there with you, as friends, helping you. And now you’re dissing me. So I’m like, man, this is dark.”
Finally, Drake also spoke on what really happened with his response to “The Story Of Adidon”:
“I got home and I just listened back to it, and I was like, ‘man, this is not something I ever want to be remembered for. This is not even a place that I necessarily want to go… And to all the people who enjoy that, I tip my hat to you. By the way, hell of a chess move. The song, I thought it was trash. But the chess move was genius. Back against the wall. I either go all the way filthy or I fall back and I have this sort of chink in my armor for the rest of time to a rap purist. Which is fine, I can live with that. I would much rather live with that than the things that I was about to… the research I did, the things that I was gonna say, and the places that I was gonna go. Not only for him, but the other guy too.”
For the record, Pusha T has since seen the interview as well (although Kanye probably hasn’t)…
When u just left the white house and now in Africa respecting ur roots. Is Kanye now out the sunken place since he in Africa or na??? pic.twitter.com/EKzY8LIfIr
— DJ Akademiks (@IamAkademiks) October 13, 2018
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