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Drake Says He Wanted to Relax After Tour: ‘Now I Gotta Eat Until This Debate is Done’

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Drake just wanted to chill. That’s all. In text to Akademiks, Drake revealed he just wanted to come off tour and relax but now he has to beef with the world, which he intends to win.

On a stream, AK read a text Drake sent him. “Ak, you know I was trying to come off tour and relax,” the blogger says the text reads. “”N–gas done f**ked up my whole feng shui. Now I gotta eat until this debate is done.”

Since Kendrick Lamar has yet to respond to “Push Ups,” Drake has gone back to back. Hitting Instagram, The 6ix God dropped off the “Taylor Made Freestyle.”

Upon pressing play you will hear something that you wouldn’t expect, Tupac’s voice.The single opens with an AI Tupac verse requesting KDot stands up for the West Coast. It is followed by an AI Snoop Dogg asking for the same.

AI Tupac raps:
Fuck this Canadian lightskin, Dot
We need an undebated West Coast victory, man
Call him a bitch for me
Talk about him liking young girls, that’s a gift from me
Heard it on the Budden Podcast, it’s gotta be true
They told me the spirit of Makaveli is alive
In the nigga under five-foot five, so it’s gotta be you

AI Snoop added:
‘Cause right now it’s looking like you writing out the game plan on how to lose
How to bark up the wrong tree and then get your head popped in a crowded room
World is watching this chess game, but are you out of moves?

After that, Drake pops in for his own slick talk:
The first one really only took me an hour or two
The next one is really ’bout to bring out the coward in you
But now we gotta wait a fucking week ’cause Taylor Swift is your new Top
And if you ’bout to drop, she gotta approve

Since “Like That,” your tone changed a little, you not as enthused
How are you not in the booth? It feel like you kinda removed
You tryna let this shit die down, nah, nah, nah
Not this time, nigga, you followin’ through

He ends the song with a message, “I know you’re in that NY apartment, you struggling right now I know it.”

You can hear it below.

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Drake Adds “Push Ups” Diss Track to Streaming Services

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Drake is continuing his onslaught on Kendrick Lamar. A week after premiering “Push Ups” with DJ Akademiks, Drake released the single on streaming services.

Drake dropped off “Push Ups,” but he says that’s just the tip of the iceberg. In an Instagram conversation with Ernest Baker, Drake says the red button is “not even close” to having been pressed.

You can see the message below.

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Drake Uses AI Verses from Tupac and Snoop Dogg to Diss Kendrick Lamar on “Taylor Made Freestyle”

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Since Kendrick Lamar has yet to respond to “Push Ups,” Drake has gone back to back. Hitting Instagram, The 6ix God dropped off the “Taylor Made Freestyle.”

Upon pressing play you will hear something that you wouldn’t expect, Tupac’s voice.The single opens with an AI Tupac verse requesting KDot stands up for the West Coast. It is followed by an AI Snoop Dogg asking for the same.

AI Tupac raps:
Fuck this Canadian lightskin, Dot
We need an undebated West Coast victory, man
Call him a bitch for me
Talk about him liking young girls, that’s a gift from me
Heard it on the Budden Podcast, it’s gotta be true
They told me the spirit of Makaveli is alive
In the nigga under five-foot five, so it’s gotta be you

AI Snoop added:
‘Cause right now it’s looking like you writing out the game plan on how to lose
How to bark up the wrong tree and then get your head popped in a crowded room
World is watching this chess game, but are you out of moves?

After that, Drake pops in for his own slick talk:
The first one really only took me an hour or two
The next one is really ’bout to bring out the coward in you
But now we gotta wait a fucking week ’cause Taylor Swift is your new Top
And if you ’bout to drop, she gotta approve

Since “Like That,” your tone changed a little, you not as enthused
How are you not in the booth? It feel like you kinda removed
You tryna let this shit die down, nah, nah, nah
Not this time, nigga, you followin’ through

He ends the song with a message, “I know you’re in that NY apartment, you struggling right now I know it.”

You can hear it below.

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Drake Texts DJ Akademiks After Dropping AI Diss: “Now I Gotta Eat”

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Drake made Kendrick Lamar’s life difficult on April 19. Firstly, the rapper uploaded his diss record, “Push Ups,” to streaming with artwork clowning Lamar’s height. Secondly, he dropped a second diss at night, “Taylor Made Freestyle,” in which he used AI to have Lamar’s idols, 2Pac and Snoop Dogg, urge him to respond. Lastly, he texted DJ Akademiks, who took time out from his live stream reaction to the second diss to share a message with the world. The message? Drake wants smoke with Lamar, and he wants it now.

DJ Akademiks, who was sampled on “Push Ups,” has often shared Drake’s sentiments with his fans. His adoration of the Toronto superstar can be a little much for causal fans, but he does have a solid history of relaying accurate information about him. Case in point: the text message Akademiks received from Drake right after “Taylor Made Freestyle” dropped. The internet personality read the message aloud for viewers to hear, and it reinforced everything we’ve seen about Drake’s current approach. He didn’t start the feud with Lamar, but he wants to end it.

Read More: Drake Officially Makes “Push Ups” Available To Stream

Drake Vows To Put An End To The “Debate”

“Ak, you know I was trying to come off tour and relax,” the text reportedly read. “N***as done f**ked up my whole feng shui. Now I gotta eat until this debate is done.” Confident words, to say the least, but that should come as no surprise from the rapper who just dropped two disses on Kung Fu Kenny. He claimed Lamar is taking so long to respond because he doesn’t want to get buried by Taylor Swift’s album rollout. “You know she ’bout to milli’ run through ’em, milly rock on your head top,” he raps on the song. “Well she got the whole pgLang on mute like that Beyoncé challenge, y’all boys quiet for the weekend.”

It’s telling that Drake has mocked the likes of Rick Ross and Metro Boomin on Instagram. They got a few lines in “Push Ups,” but Kendrick Lamar is clearly the one he wants to challenge. He dropped two songs bagging on the Compton superstar, and he’s still baiting him to respond. Mal from New Rory And Mal podcast claimed that Lamar is dropping an album (with a Drake diss) in May. It’s going to be a long couple of weeks, however, if Drake continues to go at him.

Read More: DJ Akademiks Thanks Drake For Putting Him On “Push Ups” Following Official Release

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Drake Uses AI 2Pac To Diss Kendrick Lamar On “Taylor Made Freestyle”

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Nobody saw this one coming. It was theorized by industry insiders that Drake would drop a second diss on Kendrick Lamar, much like he did with Meek Mill in 2015, but the hip-hop world has never heard a diss quite like “Taylor Made Freestyle.” Drake writes three verses, packed with insults and not-so-subtle jabs, but he only raps one of them in his regular voice. The other two are modified, using AI technology, to sound like Snoop Dogg and the late, great 2Pac! The same 2Pac that has been Lamar’s idol since childhood.

Drake unleashed “Taylor Made Freestyle” via Instagram on April 19. He doesn’t waste anytime using Lamar’s favorite rapper against him, as “2Pac” gets the first verse. The AI generated voice (with bars from Drake) sees “2Pac” consult Lamar on how to best defeat, well, Drake himself. “If you deal with this viciously, you see a little nervous about all the publicity,” the AI voice raps. “F**k this Canadian light skin guy, we need to know the west coast victory, man.” It’s a fascinating bit of reverse psychology, and it effectively allows Drake to sabotage the easy talking points that Lamar had at his disposal.

Read More: Every Time Kendrick Lamar Took Shots At Drake

Drake Used AI To Turn K. Dot’s Heroes Against Him

The second verse goes to the AI generated voice of Snoop Dogg. The voice continues the disappointed tone set by AI 2Pac by urging Lamar to put together a response track ASAP. “Still you gotta show this f**king owl who’s boss on the west, now’s a time to really make a power move,” he raps. “‘Cause right now it’s looking like you writing out the gameplan with how to lose.” Another withering line from the Doggfather’s doppleganger is: “World is watching this chess game, but oh, you out of moves.”

After using Kendrick Lamar’s own heroes against him, Drake raps the third verse in his own voice. He relentlessly mocks the Compton rapper for taking so long to respond after starting the feud in the first place. “Since your tone changed a little, you not as enthused,” Drake asserts. “How are you not in the booth? It feel like you kinda removed.” The 6 God gets even more specific towards the end of the song, claiming that K. Dot needs “another week” to get himself together.

Kendrick Lamar has been saddled with AI disses in recent weeks, with fans being unsure of what’s real and what isn’t. Drake using AI tech to then diss him further is a chess move that Lamar will not be able to ignore.

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Kendrick Lamar May Be Saving His Drake Response For A New Album In May

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Last month, Drake sparked the biggest rap beef of the year, or at least the biggest since Megan The Stallion and Nicki Minaj went head-to-head in January. He called out both Drake and J. Cole on the Future & Metro Boomin song “Like That” and things have moved VERY quickly since then. Cole released a diss track of his own only to quickly apologize and delete it. Drake dropped a response that just hit streaming services earlier today. And now fans are anticipating Kendrick’s next move.

Rory & Mal‘s podcast has been discussing the beef as it unfolds and occasionally sharing some insight. During a recent episode Mal claimed that a “little bird” passed some information along to him. The news he shared is pretty big, claiming that the reason Kendrick hasn’t released a response yet is that he’s saving it for a new album coming later this year. In fact, he pretty confidently declared that the project was coming in May, far sooner than even some of the most optimistic Kendrick fans imagined. He took a full 5 years break between DAMN and Mr Morale & The Big-Steppers, which dropped less than two years ago. Check out the claims Mal makes in the clip below,

Read More: Kendrick Lamar Scores This Milestone For Feature On “Like That”

Kendrick Lamar May Drop A New Album Next Month

Another podcast has been talking about the Drake and Kendrick beef quite a bit, Joe Budden’s. He’s been calling together emergency podcast episodes to cover nearly every development in the rap drama so far. In his most recent episode, some more insight was shared about a potential Kendrick response. One of his co-hosts compared Kendrick’s supposed response to “Hit Em Up” by 2pac. It’s unclear if the two reports contradict each other and only time will tell which is more accurate.

What do you think of Mal sharing the rumor that Kendrick Lamar could be dropping a new album next month? If he is, do you think saving a Drake response until then is the right move? Let us know in the comment section below.

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Drake Officially Releases ‘Push Ups’ And The Cover Art Is A Brutal Kendrick Lamar Diss

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About a week ago, what appeared to be a Drake diss track toward Kendrick Lamar leaked online. Given how convincing AI-assisted songs have become, though, it was hard to say for sure if it was real or not. We now know, though, that the song is totally real, as Drake officially released “Push Ups” on streaming services today, April 19. He went hard with the art, too.

For the single’s cover art, Drake leans into the line, “You won’t ever take no chain off of us / How the f*ck you big steppin’ with a size 7 men’s on?” The lyric pokes fun at Lamar’s relatively diminutive stature: Various sources have Lamar’s height listed at between 5’4″ and 5’6″. So, in that spirit, the cover art is a modified version of the size tag you would find on the tongue of a sneaker, showing off a size 7 shoe.

Elsewhere in the song, another barb presumably about Lamar goes, “You ain’t in no Big Three, SZA got you wiped down / Travis got you wiped down, Savage got you wiped down.” Drake also said of Metro Boomin, “Metro, shut your hoe ass up and make some drums, n****.” Drake later went full boar on the drums thing.

Listen to “Push Ups” above.

Drake Officially Makes “Push Ups” Available To Stream

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After “Push Ups (Drop & Give Me Fifty)” by Drake was teased online, it was only a matter of time before it would hit streaming. Well, today is the day as just minutes ago, The Boy delivered the final polished version. The “twenty-v-one” diss response sees Drizzy respond to his numerous foes. The Weeknd, Future, Metro Boomin, and the main target, Kendrick Lamar are all “in a scope.”

The massive number of bars directed right at the “Like That” rapper make that clear. But to double down, the cover art hilariously shows that further. It shows the foot measurements that you will find inside of most shoe tongues. It is a reference to Drake saying, “You won’t ever take no chain off of us / How the f*** you big steppin’ with a size-seven men’s on?”

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Listen To “Push Ups” By Drake

As we mentioned earlier, “Push Ups” getting a wide release was essentially imminent, but there was a sign some may have missed. According to Genius, a teaser billboard and digital banner from Spotify might have given it away. It read, “Hip-Hop is a competitive sport. Drake is on the way.” Will this be his biggest diss song of all time? We think it has a pretty good shot at that mark.

What are your thoughts on Drake releasing “Push Ups” to streaming services? Out of all the diss tracks revolving around him, is this the best one, why or why not? Does this outdo Kendrick Lamar’s “Like That” verse? Will this song be as big as “Back To Back?” We would like to hear what you have to say, so be sure to leave your takes in the comments section. Additionally, always keep it locked in with HNHH for all of the latest news surrounding Drake, his beefs, and “Push Ups.” Finally, stay with us for everything else going on around the music world.

Quotable Lyrics:

You ain’t in no big three, SZA got you wiped down
Travis got you wiped down, Savage got you wiped down
Like your label, boy, you in a scope right now
And you gon’ feel the aftermath of what I write down
I’m at the top of the mountain, so you tight now
Just to have this talk with your a**, I had to hike down

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Victor Wembanyama Explains Why He Refused Drake’s Offer To Get Up On Stage

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Victor Wembanyama is already living up to the massive expectations everyone had for him in the NBA. Wemby and the San Antonio Spurs were far from the playoffs, but Wemby had a rookie season to be remembered. Wembanyama capped off his rookie season with a jaw-dropping performance against Nikola Jokic and the defending champion Denver Nuggets. Wemby put up 34 points in a comeback win, clearly cementing his Rookie of the Year award.

Wembanyama has been a wonder even before he stepped onto an NBA court. The hype around him had sports fans and celebs turning out in droves to watch him play. Drake has been on the Wemby train early, linking up with the rook back in October. Drake is a known NBA superfan. He’s reps his Toronto Raptors any chance he gets. Stories about Wemby’s leadership ability and off-the-court demeanor have been coming out. The biggest story involves how the rookie phenom turned down joining Drake on stage at the rapper’s concert.

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Victor Looked Out For Teammates At Drake Concert

According to JJ Redick, Victor Wembanyama has been a model teammate in the mold of Tim Duncan, even as a rookie. JJ said, “There was a Drake concert…. and he got asked to come up on stage…. Wemby was like ‘can my teammates come up on stage with me?’… And Drake’s camp was like no. And he’s like, ‘then I don’t want to do it.’” It shows a lot of maturity to pass up on linking with Drake at his concert. The expectations that have been put on Wemby have been astronomical, but he has lived up to the hype. Additionally, the rookie has shown that he knows the people he shares the court with are important and that he wasn’t ready to be a leader.

Drake has met up with Wemby before, so there’s likely no beef there. Wemby was still at the concert but just didn’t get up on stage. Maybe it was a calculated move on Wemby’s part not to get dragged into the many feds Drake is in right now. Whatever the case, it’s a good example of somebody knowing they are the top dog on their team and making sure everybody under him is happy. Victor is a team-first guy, even if his team could only get 22 wins in the season.

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New Kendrick Lamar Leak Seemingly Makes Reference To Drake’s Mom

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Kendrick Lamar has been quiet since he dropped “Like That.” The aftermath of his verse has been absolutely chaotic, with diss tracks popping up seemingly every day. Regardless of who tries to clown Drake on Instagram, though, the main event remains Lamar vs Drake. They are the big two, now that J. Cole has taken himself out of competition. Drake responded to “Like That” with “Push Ups,” and now fans are waiting for K. Dot to fire back. A new leak suggests he may already be loading up his weapon.

On April 18, a snippet of an untitled song surfaced on X (formerly Twitter). The snippet is 22 seconds long, and features Lamar (or what sounds like Lamar) crooning over a soul beat. The mood is silly, as people can be heard laughing in the background, but the lyrics give reason for pause. “Sweet p***y Sandra, please come home,” the rapper sings. “Sweet p***y Sandra, please don’t go, whoa whoa.” Lamar fans may not the similarities between the snippet and “untitled 04,” which appeared on the untitled, unmastered project. The big difference here, though, is that Lamar is singing the name of Drake’s mother, Sandra Graham.

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Kendrick Lamar Sings About A Woman Named Sandra

Drake is famously close with his mother, and mentions her frequently in his music. She made a cameo in the music video for “Started from the Bottom,” and even had the song “Sandra’s Rose” named after her. It’s worth noting that very little information about the leak has been uncovered. Genius has made a lyrics page under the name “Sweet P***y Sandra” (what else), and the producer credited on the song is DJ Dahi. Lamar and Dahi have collaborated on “Money Trees” and “LOYALTY,” so it makes sense they’d reunite for such a monumental a diss.

The lack of information does force one to question the leak’s validity, however. Kendrick Lamar was just linked to a diss track titled “One Shot,” and days after its release, a TikTok producer admitted he made it with AI. It’s getting harder to tell the difference between what’s real and what’s not, so a healthy amount of skepticism is good with leaks like “Sweet P***y Sandra.” If it is real, though, the battle between Lamar and Drake is going to turn into an all out war.

Read More: DJ Akademiks Thinks Kendrick Lamar Is “On The Clock” To Respond To Drake Diss

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