Lil Wayne is doing the press rounds in support of his latest release, Funeral. Along the way, he stopped at Drink Champs to chop it up with DJ EFN and N.O.R.E. During the conversation, Weezy was asked what started his long-running beef with Pusha T, but Wayne was stumped.
“I swear to God I don’t, man,” he replied. “I just found out … it was one of those things … you ever see when an athletes gets traded and he don’t know it and he gets traded during a press conference?”
Wayne said he was essentially blindsided by Pusha’s 2012 diss track “Exodus 23:1.” The verse, “Contract all fucked up/I guess that means you all fucked up/You signed to one nigga that signed to another nigga/That’s signed to three niggas, now that’s bad luck,” had people thinking it was about Wayne.
Shortly after the track was released, Weezy recalled a friend asking him what his next move was.
“He was like, ‘What you gonna do? You gonna come back at Pusha?'” he said. “I’m like, ‘What you mean? I’d love to do a song with him.’ He like, ‘Nah he dissing you now.'”
In 2012, Wayne responded to the track via Twitter, writing, “Fuk pusha t and anybody that love em.” Subsequently, the multi-platinum rap star released a diss track called “Ghoulish” aimed at the Clipse MC. A multitude of subliminals followed from there.
In 2019, Rick Ross attempted to reunite Wayne and Push on the song “Maybach Music VI,” which appeared on Port Of Miami 2.
When the album was released last August, Push’s verse was mysteriously absent, while a leaked version featured both rappers.
Noreaga suggested Ross could’ve experienced sample clearance issues.
“I don’t even know nothing about it … that’s random news to me ’cause that’s [Rick Ross’] joint,” Wayne said. “I wouldn’t know who is on it anyway.”
Elsewhere in the conversation, Wayne talks about his love of skateboarding, Cash Money Records and, of course, Funeral.
Watch it below.
Legend has it that Wayne took offense to lyrics on “Mr. Me Too”, and I’ve even read the lyrics on Genius looking for anything that he could have thought was explicitly about him, but nothing seems like a direct or even subliminal shot. But that song was 2006, “Exodus” was way later, and Wayne says “Exodus” was the first time he even knew about the beef. I mean, I knew before that, you would think Wayne would have too, but he was pretty doped up back then and also way too popular to concern himself with the opinions of peasants like Pusha T (I like Push more, but it’s objective fact that Wayne was 20 times more popular in that time frame)
Ill tell you why…cause Pusha T is living with his angry mothers anguish and he acts like a woman. He needs to stop imitating his crazy momma starting drama with everybody and start behaving like a man does.
Also, supposedly Birdman pulled some shady shit with their ‘What Happened To That Boy’ collab and pharrel/clipse didn’t get paid or some shit
but what does that have to do with Pusha? was he just sticking up for his homies? I remember when N.O.R.E. said the Neptunes were gay and Pusha T never dissed him.
No he didn’t. he said they were not gay. NORE biggest hits are produced by the Neptunes.
He did say Neptunes is gay in an interview, he made comments about Pharrell wearing a choker and shit like that. he said “neptunes is gay”.
And now all these rappers wear chokers now lol.
The fuck you mean what does that have to do with pusha? He was part of clipse if “they” didnt get paid that means he wasnt paid
When white people come to rap they base skills off popularity and this is why rap is shit now I’m so glad underground is back
stop bringing race into this. damn you type of person who says something like this on the internet and the next week at a black lives matter protest. make up your damn mind.
Wtf do you mean that “they base skills on popularity”? Are you saying that they consider the most popular rappers to be the best rappers? In my experience it is black people, at least when it comes to hip hop music, that tends to follow the pack and decide who their favorite rappers with groupthink, while the white people will listen to some weird scientific underground shit. But that’s just my personal subjective experience (it’s me, i’m “the white people”)
White people actually fuck with real hip-hop, so?
Nah color has nothing to do with lol you are brainwashed by colorism too huh … to bad. The shot popular artist as in migos post malone and like 89percent of the others are retarted and are paid to be that way you can blame the filthy rich racist people who own the entertainment industry. Whom have an agenda to divide the masses. Judging from your shit ass point of view they got you?
This fool just act like this everytime he’s questioned with pretty much anything to do with another artist, We all know very well Wayne knows the ins and outs of what’s what, pusha would have bodied son.
Lyrically, Push is nowhere near Wayne’s level. The song catalog is living proof. Pusha T is slow and articulate, and that wouldn’t be enough.
It always baffles me when people make comments like this…I love Wayne and grew up with him but he has never been that nice lyrically.
Foh
The foh is to HUH, not fools gold.
I always thought that line from Push on Exodus was at Drake…Makes more sense since he is signed to Wayne who is signed to Cash Money.
he’s calculated. but he knows exactly why. refer to his Complex mag interview from ‘O6
Mr me to was at Wayne because Wayne hung out with clipse then Wayne started wearing Babe so clipse felt Wayne was biting their style