Drake surprised the streets on Friday with a new freestyle that quickly surfaced on social media.
For the first time since he and Kendrick Lamar shut down the internet with their rap battle, Drake is finding his groove again with a fresh freestyle over a beat by Conductor Williams. In the track, Drake opens up about his disappointment with how it all played out and how the rap community turned its back on him.
“The world fell in love with the gimmicks, even my brothers got tickets, seemed like they loved every minute/ Just know the s–t is personal to us and wasn’t just business/ Analyzing behavioral patterns is somewhat suspicious,” he raps.
Drake seems to be sending some shots at folks he once called close friends, like NBA stars DeMar DeRozan and LeBron James, who were vibing at Kendrick’s Pop Out concert back in June. It’s worth noting that LeBron’s high school squad, St. Vincent-St. Mary in Ohio, had the Fighting Irish as their mascot, making this whole situation even more layered.
On the track, Drizzy also sets the record straight about Kendrick’s claims that he has a drinking problem, an accusation Kendrick threw out on the intense “Meet the Grahams.”
“I don’t have a drinkin’ problem, I got a subtle addiction/ I got my father’s habits and I got my mother’s permission,” Drake rhymes.
He also threw what could be a subtle jab at Universal Music Group over his legal claims that his parent label rigged the game to boost the popularity of Lamar’s “Not Like Us” diss track. “I hate to see their empire crumble on judges’ convictions,” he spits out. (UMG shot back, denying his allegations and calling them “offensive and untrue” in a November statement to Billboard.)
Drake and Conductor have teamed up before on tracks from For All The Dogs, like “8am in Charlotte” and “Stories About My Brother.”
