Whereas the remainder of us have been simply happening with our lives, Drake seems to nonetheless be harboring some unwell emotions about Kanye West. The pair who’ve been embroiled in a principally one-sided public feud for a number of years — together with Drizzy’s use of a convo excerpt between Ye’s ex, Kim Kardashian, and her mother, Kris Jenner, about Kim’s divorce on his “Search & Rescue” single earlier this 12 months — are as soon as once more within the highlight because of the 6 God’s new single, “8AM in Charlotte.”
Not lengthy after the monitor dropped on Thursday morning (Oct. 5), the hypothesis that it comprises one more Ye diss bubbled up on X (previously Twitter), with followers, haters, lovers, hip-hop elders and informal observers particularly zeroing in on the strains “Deal with beef so quiet you suppose that I’m letting it slide/ Subsequent factor you now we tip-toeing previous enemy strains/ Diss me so way back we making your reminiscences fly/ Conspiracy theories begin flowing round just like the Kennedy man/ I’ll most likely maintain a grudge towards you guys ’til I’m 75.”
And whereas Drake doesn’t ever particularly point out Ye within the tune that contains a dozen different apparent shouts to everybody from Michael Jackson to Shania Twain, 21 Savage, DJ Screw, megachurch preacher T.D. Jakes and conspiracy theory-embracing presidential candidate RFK Jr., sleuths additionally speculated that the bars continued the Ye pile-on Drake beforehand explored on such tracks as “No Sylist” and his verse on Travis Scott’s “Sicko Mode.”
“Aye, n—as mendacity for a residing, I couldn’t relate/ All of us gotta lay within the mattress we make, however that couldn’t be Drake/ You compelled lots of pretend love when actual ones stood in your face,” Drake raps on his newest timestamp tune. “That’s why you bought abandoned by your n—as like pudding and cake/ I received you on digicam bowing down however the footage is secure/ Thank God, one other USB to place within the secure.”
At press time, it didn’t seem as if West — who has stored a low profile for many of this 12 months following the meltdown of his music and trend empire final 12 months within the wake of a string of antisemitic feedback — had responded to the alleged Drake provocation.
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