Drake and Kanye’s historic beef has been resurrected.
As both artists approach similar release dates for their respective albums, it appears both industry juggernauts’ albums cannot exist in bipolarity, in turn awakening the ancient decade old beef between the two titans.
Back-track a couple of weeks to late July, promotion for Drake’s album Certified Lover Boy begins and Kanye starts hosting listening parties for his newest project Donda. As Kanye rolls past his July 23rd and August 6th release date for Donda, speculation begins to grow as both parties’ release dates are seemingly pointed towards the same day.
Both artists and their camps took shots at each other as Drake included a subtweet-esque subliminal in a verse on Trippie Redd’s August 21st release, “Betrayal”.
“All these fools I’m beefin’ that I barely know,
– Drake “Betrayal”
Forty-five, forty-four (Burned out), let it go
Ye ain’t changin’ shit for me, it’s set in stone.”
This triggered some Black Air Force activity out of Kanye in the form of adding Pusha-T to a group chat with Drake and a text message with a picture of the 2019 portrayal of the Joker, along with the caption promising Drake, “You will never recover.”
As if that wasn’t enough, within the next couple of days, on August 23rd, Kanye then doxxed Drake’s address on his Instagram story to the amusement of fans exhilarated by the hip hop beef awakening. Ye eventually pulled the post, but it was a little too late to prevent online instigators from making their speedy screenshots.
References to the beef between Kanye and Drake are documented as far back as decades long and can be traced to Drake’s very first album. In fact, this beef is most comparable to the decades long Cold War; an intricate, clandestine, and calculated effort between two superpowers, with both wielding the ability to mutually assured destruction. However, that’s a story for another day.
