Cyrus Langhorne
Young Money’s Drake covers the new 100th issue of The FADER and dishes on his short-live, but memorable, feud with one-time pal Meek Mill.
Within his cover feature, Drizzy admits he knew his hard-hitting “Back to Back” anthem would make things tough for Meek.
It was then that he decided to just go ahead and do another song. “I was like, ‘I’m gonna probably just finish this.’ And I know how I have to finish it. This has to literally become the song that people want to hear every single night, and it’s gonna be tough to exist during this summer when everybody wants to hear [this] song that isn’t necessarily in your favor.” (The FADER)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TI3yi-JKItA
Meek’s girlfriend Nicki Minaj recently addressed his public Twitter disses toward Drake allegedly having a ghostwriter.
“And that’s the thing people don’t understand. Meek is a grown ass man. I may not agree with everything he says,” Nicki said before Meek weighed in saying, “She likes none of that sh*t. No matter who I’m talking to.” (GQ)
This week, Atlanta rapper Future refused to pick sides in the Drake/Meek dispute.
“On some real sh*t, I love Meek. And the Drake situation, I feel like genuinely we’ve been building a great relationship over these years. We got history together. We went on a few tours together so it was like, publicly, some things was said and it was took out of context. We put it all behind us, went on a sold-out tour and we built from that and I feel like it’s genuine, it’s authentic, and we built trust between each other.” (XXL)
Some gossip blogs speculated Drake may have busted off a shot at Meek on his new song “30 For 30 Freestyle.”
“30 For 30 Freestyle” is the final track on Drake’s new mixtape with Future, and fans are going crazy over the alleged disses toward Meek. Weeks after their highly-publicized feud, the 28-year-old raps, “I say hats off for a solid effort/but we didn’t flinch for a second/we got our s–t together/ yeah, not here to fight wars.” Is he saying that Meek’s effort was commendable, but wasn’t quite enough to win the war?! (Hollywood Life)
Except it didn’t. Only people who were fans of Drake really cared. Some of those people didn’t even know who Meek was. Some of them liked what they heard after discovering who Meek was too lol. I see it all the time. “Man I was sleeping on this guy” ect. Diss songs do not end careers. Before people say “but Ja Rule”. Rule started making different versions of the same damn song. People were tired of Rule when that beef started. They were happy to see him go. Rule was killing it though. He knocked of like 20-30 million in Album sales in that run.
rule didnt slow down til the feds kicked in actually. only person a diss song ruiend was canibus lol
Bis diss song to LL was heat though, he got em on the Knockout song but LL did come back pretty nice too. His album ruined his career IMO, you are supposed to come out with a classic on that first album and people were not really feeling it sides a few songs. I don’t think a diss ended his career either really, nor Rules for that matter (Heads got sick of his sing song crap like Chosen said).
Ja Rule, Meek Mill, Chingy, Tyga, Lil Kim, Eazy E, and 50 Cent are all examples of what happens when you lose a Rap Battle. Nobody wants to hear your music anymore once you take that Big L.
the bridge is over(krs one) killed mc shans career too,,,but that’s old school
Song wasn’t even that good though.
Meeks was weak as hell for him but yes Back To Back was not that great either honestly. I agree with you, weak ass battle and shows you the state of hip hop nowadays if that is a battle ending record.
That Shit cut deep.