The Hip Hop Civil War is under way.
Before we get into it, let’s backtrack a few weeks. At the tail end of March, Future and Metro Boomin dropped We Don’t Trust You; which featured a Kendrick Lamar verse going at Drake (and J. Cole). The two have been sending subs at each other for years, but this was far more direct. Everyone knew who he was shooting at. Two weeks later, J. Cole responded with “7 Minute Drill” on Might Delete Later. From then, all eyes were on Drake to see if he’d respond. And, well… he definitely did.
Following a “leak” early Saturday morning, a track seemingly called “Push Ups” hit the internets, which found Drake doing his best Thanos rendition as he went at everyone who’s been taking shots at him recently.
Drake’s “Push Ups” diss track (CDQ) pic.twitter.com/EKSQK8pFwA
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Starting with Future, who had plenty to say about Drake on the two albums he and Metro just dropped. Drake starts the record off with, “I could never be nobody number-one fan/ Your first number one, I had to put it in your hand.” A direct response to the We Don’t Trust You title track.
From there, Kendrick Lamar was the target, with Drake dropping lines like:
You won’t ever take no chain off of us/
How the fuck you big steppin’ with a size seven men’s on?
Extortion baby, whole career you been shook up
Cause Top told you drop and give me fifty like some push-ups, huh
Your last one bricked, you really not on shit
They make excuses for you ’cause they hate to see me lit
What the fuck is this, a 20-v-1, ni**a?
What’s a prince to a king? He a son, ni**a
Get more love in the city that you from, ni**a
Metro, shut your ho-ass up and make some drums, ni**a
The Weeknd was up next on the list, with Drake following the Metro slight with the following:
Yeah, I’m the 6ix god, I’m the frontrunner
Y’all ni**a manager was Chubb’s lil’ blunt runner
Claim the 6ix, and you boys ain’t even come from it
And when you boys got rich, you had to run from it
Cash blowin’ Abel bread, out here trickin’
Sh*t we do for b*tches he doin’ for ni**as
Rick Ross, another longtime collaborator with Drake, who has since switched sides, was up next.
I might take your latest girl and cuff her like I’m Ricky
Can’t believe he jumpin’ in, this ni**a turnin’ fifty
Every song that made it on the chart, he got from Drizzy
Spend that lil’ check you got and stay up out my business
And just incase people somehow couldn’t put two and two together, names were named:
And that f*ckin’ song y’all got did not start the beef with us
This sh*t been brewin’ in a pot, now I’m heatin’ up
I don’t care what Cole think, that Dot sh*t was weak as f*ck
The track ends with Drake taking a(nother) page out of Jay-Z’s battle book, insinuating this was just the beginning and that he’s got more in the tuck if it comes to that. “This ain’t even everything I know, don’t wake the demon up,” he raps.
Considering, we’ve only got a guest verse from Kendrick and this diss track from Drake, it’s hard to judge the battle thus far. All we know is, things are heating up. And we’re here for it all!
