It appears that the ongoing feud between Kanye West and Drake has been reignited and is escalating quickly as both rappers gear up to release their new albums.
This war of words began anew on Friday when rapper Trippie Redd released his album “Trip At Knight,” which features a collaboration with Drake titled “Betrayal.” On the track, the October’s Very Own founder seems to take shots at both West and West’s frequent collaborator Pusha T, rapping, “All these fools I’m beefin’ that I barely know / Forty-five, forty-four (burned out), let it go / Ye ain’t changin’ shit for me, it’s set in stone.” In 2018, Pusha T and Drake infamously butted heads after the Degrassi star released the diss track “Duppy Freestyle.” The Clipse rapper wrote “The Story of Adidon” in response, in which Pusha accuses Drake of being a “deadbeat” dad who is “hiding a child,” as up until that point he had not publicly acknowledged the existence of his son, Adonis. The cover art for the single also featured a 2007 photograph taken by David Leyes of Drake in blackface.
In response to this new song, West posted and then quickly deleted a screenshot to his Instagram account of a group chat with eight other people, one of whom fans have speculated is Drake as one of the bubbles in the contact bar at the top of the text begins with the letter “D.” In the chat, West adds Pusha to the conversation before sending a photo of Joaquin Phoenix as the Joker. Underneath that he wrote, “I live for this. I’ve been fucked with by nerd ass jock n—s like you my whole life. You will never recover. I promise you.”
But apparently, the Yeezy designer didn’t stop there. West followed that up early Monday morning with another since-deleted Instagram post of a screenshot of a map taken from his iPhone photo locations that appears to show Drake’s home address in Toronto. While many fans accused him of doxxing the “Hotline Bling” crooner by sharing this private information which could put him in danger, others pointed out that his address is already readily available via a quick Google search for “Drake’s house.”
The war of words between the two dates all the way back to 2009 when West critiqued one of Drake’s lyrics on the Young Money song “Every Girl.” In response, days later Drake said in an interview, “Before I met him, I had the utmost respect for Kanye West. I’d even go as far as to say he’s the most influential person as far as a musician that I’d ever had in my life.” Since then, the two have continued to exchange barbs via their music. Prior to their most recent interaction, West criticized Travis Scott on Twitter for “allowing” Drake to “sneak diss” him on his hit song “Sicko Mode.” His then-wife Kim Kardashian echoed that sentiment, tweeting, “Never threaten my husband or our family. He paved the way for there to be a Drake. My husband is the most brilliant person, the most genius person that I know. He has broken so many boundaries, everything from music, stage design, fashion and culture and will continue to change the world.”
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