Drake vs. the World: Inside His Beef with Kendrick Lamar, Rick Ross, and More

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🗓️ 19 April 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Drake is feuding with Kendrick Lamar, Rick Ross, The Weeknd, A$AP Rocky, and Future, among others. We trace the biggest moment for hip-hop beef in years, including J. Cole's preemptive surrender to Lamar, with Andre Gee joining host Brian Hiatt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Brian Hyatt. This is Rolling Stone Music Now. Today we're talking about an incredibly fast moving and complex story in music.
0:08.0	On Saturday, as you probably know, all hell broke loose when a new Drake song leak called Push Up,
0:13.2	Drop and Give Me 50.
0:14.6	The song was the lead to salvo in the biggest hip-hop beef in years.
0:18.3	Better do that mother-fucking show inside the bitty.
0:20.7	Maroon 5 need a verse, you better make it witty.
0:23.0	Then we need a verse for the swithies.
0:25.0	Top say drop, you better drop and give them 50.
0:29.0	It's a direct response to, among other things,
0:32.0	the number one song in the country right now
0:34.0	like that which is of course by future Metrobooming from their We Don't Trust
0:38.3	you album and the guest first by Kendrick Lamar took shots at yes
0:42.3	Drake by Kendrick Lamar, Lamar, took shots at, yes, Drake.
0:43.0	The big three, nah, it's just big me,
0:45.5	nigger, bamh, what?
0:47.6	I'm really like that.
0:48.6	And your best work is a life pack,
0:50.1	nah prince outlived Mike Jack, nigg story. For all your dogs getting buried,
0:54.0	that's a K with all these nines.
0:56.0	He's gonna see Pet Cemetery.
0:57.0	And that's really just part of the story.
0:59.0	There are a lot of other fronts in this beef, a lot of ins and outs,
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