Drake and Common engaged in a battle of words in 2011 and 2012 that started off with subliminal disses before Common made it clear that the Toronto rapper was his target.
Looking back, Drake says that he was drawn to the verbal sparring because Common struck first with the No I.D.-produced “Sweet” in November 2011. Drake responded with a verse on Rick Ross’ “Stay Schemin” less than two months later. Common released his remix of “Stay Schemin” January 9, 2012, where he dissed Drake by name.
“That was the first time someone had called me out personally,” Drake says in an interview with XXL, as per hotnewhiphop.com. “I reacted in a very poised way. First of all, I made sure it would run in the club because that’s more painful than anything. As opposed to just being on a blog, I wanted to be on a record that you would have to stand around and hear every night for a few months. That was my whole strategy going into that. Instead of sounding hurt and malicious, I wanted to sound fun, get my shit off. Like I said, if it happens again, not that I want it, not that I welcome it, but I’m ready. I really enjoy writing bars, man. I’m not nervous about anybody saying anything to me.”
Drake says that Common did deliver a quality lyrical passage with his closing salvo on his version of “Stay Schemin.”
“The Canada Dry line?” Drake says. “That was epic. I liked it. It wasn’t a good line necessarily, but it was funny.”
Drake says that he did take issue with Common bringing his mother and father into the battle.
“For you to delve into my mom and my dad’s a bitch and all that, you’re just reaching for impact moments but the bars aren’t really good, so it didn’t hit me,” Drake says. “I never sat back and analyzed that, either. I only heard it once, and thought, ‘I think I came away with the W on that one.’”
In January 2012 and while on the set for his video for “The Motto,” Drake said he would not continue the back-and-forth with Common. “Despite how it’s been worded by him that situation is not a ‘hip hop moment’ or a ‘battle for the sake of musical integrity,’” Drake said at the time. “It’s a ploy for attention around the release of an album [Common’s The Dreamer, The Believer]. More than anything, it was just disappointing ’cause what kid isn’t a fan of what Common has done for our genre? A guy who made such an incredible career for himself based off expressing genuine feelings about life and love is now targeting me for sharing my story.”
Drake appears on the cover of XXL’s 150 Issue, which is slated to arrive on newsstands August 20. Drake’s Nothing Was The Same album is slated for a September 17 release.
Ya well it’s bizzaro world of the canibus vs ll cool J battle, just the opposite
I believe in freedom of speech, man can say what he wants
This nigga’s delusional. Common beat him.
Common couldn’t beat the charts so how the hell could he beat Drake?
Sorry, mainstream music stan. The charts has nothing to do with this shit. It’s all about skills and Common beat Aubrey.
This record selling and success rebuttal for Drake is equivalent to saying The Cavs won the NBA finals bc Lebron sells more jerseys than Curry. Competition is about who displays better skills – not who has more marketability or popularity. You’re talking about Drake winning a beauty pageant, while reality is common won the real, man’s competition.
No. It’s ok to stand up for yourself, but saying you (Drake) won against Common is like covering a kids ears and screaming with your manwhore voice so kids can’t hear real rappers like Common, so all these poor bastards can only hear bullshit like you.
Nah Drake. You took a big fat L with that one. You lost.
How’s Drake gonna think he won when his bars were weak?
His bars are better than Kendrick Lamar’s any day of any week.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!
Funniest joke of the year.
Drake is absolutely right on all accounts here. Common was reaching for the sake of hype over his album, and it’s obvious his resentment came from envy over Drake’s status in the industry. Drizzy even gives him credit for a decent Canada Dry line, and acknowledges his importance to Hip-Hop. Murdered him with class.
Wrong.
You call him drizzy. thats so cute
Co sign
Lmao this generation
You ain’t got the skills to eat a nigga’s ass like me.
PAUSE!!
common crushed this Canadian queer
AWWWWW, the drake fans tryna be all “INTELLIGENT” about it.
awww, ts cute. however, we all know that those same DRAKE fans arent…BATTLE TESTED. and we ALL KNOW that u putta vet n the battle cage with a KITTEN… well, u know the rest.
u keep pullin 4 ol DRAKEY 🙂 yall r summa most cutest fans.
What an arrogant bitch, but of course dudes like that with a bunch of “yes men” around them never think they lost. Jay-Z still thinks he didn’t lose to Nas.. Common murdered this fool on the remix and don’t forget “Sweet” tore him up too. What did Drake say exactly.. he implied that Serena wanted to tell him Common’s secrets or some bullshit.. weak. Stick to making rnb pop hits, because he can’t battle rap someone, he only makes vague indirect disses.
Nope. Jay-z lost to NaS. Acknowledged. Jay-z knows this. Ether was dope. Common re-work os stay schemin was corny. drake won easily. His verse was amazing.
No. Common used Stay Schemin against Drake and beat him. Common won. Drake’s verse was weak.
glad to hear hes ready and likes writing bars..because kendrick lamar just called you the fucccck out!
Oh Aubrey…
1. Sweet wasn’t about you. Com done said it was about whoever felt offended. That means yo soft as baby thigh ass is at fault for that
2. Yeah the Stay Schemin shit was nice, but his remix bodied you. “Gods actin like broads” was good for a week, but niggas still calling you Canada Dry to this day.
3. Common won. Get over it. If this was the 90’s or early aughts that shit woulda ended your career
Canada Dry is a really fucking stupid line and anyone using that today is more than likely a gay virgin.
Canada Dry is a clever line and gay virgin describes people liking Drake’s wack verse.
Obviously Common is the better lyricist, but that CLEARLY didn’t show for this beef. Common took an L for stooping to attention whoring and calling Drake out for developing a genre in which Common has heavily participated in. How do you call someone “sweet” after having put out “Finding Forever”, an album ALL about love and life, the same things he was trying to clown Drake for. And Common’s case certainly isn’t helped by the fact that his album was about to come out.
Is that a joke?
CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TELL & SHOW ME WHEN DRAKE EVER RESPONDED TO ANYTHING COMMON THROW AT HIM. DRAKE MAKING SOUND LIKE HE GOT AT DO SERIOUSLY. I LIKE DRAKE’S MUSIC BUT LETS BE REAL HE DIDNT WANT PARTS OF COMMON, PUSHA T OR ANYONE ELSE WHO SPEAKS HIS NAME
He responded by putting his D in Serena Williams, just like he responded to Chris Brown by putting his D in Rhianna. Like Tupac, Drake is going to fuck your bitch. Drake’s a real nigga. Case closed. OVO all day!
Wrong, bitch. He doesn’t do that. He does sneak disses.
Ummm, he dated both Serena and Rhianna. That ain’t made up cunt. There a reasons beyond music for why Chris Brown and Common hate Drake.
Bullshit. You believe everything the media tells you. All of that was crap.
I think Drake might be a tad be delusional. Personally, I think it was a mini-beef that most of us forgot about, but I certainly don’t think anyone thinks Drizzy came away with a W. Who is he trying to fool?
Wasn’t there pictures with this dude kissing Common’s ass right after he dropped that diss record??? Now like a year later he wants to talk shit when he had the opportunity to say this stuff to Common’s face. I can’t stand this fucking clown, I swear to God. I’m just waiting for the day to come when someone snatches him and up and beats the eye brows off his face. Who does this canadian faggot think he is?
eyebrows..lol……
damn homie you seem butt hurt cause drake said he took the “W”.. lol chill out
The only butthurt here is you.
Common was the one who apologized and got all star struck after the fact. Drake was smart not to get into it, but for next time he might have too. He’s just getting too successful to let shit ride.
Wrong. Common never apologized, Drake did. Drake was an idiotic bitch for not responding.
that shit wasn’t even a beef. nigga chill.
were you expecting him to say he lost?
Drakes a clown go suck on Weezys dick you Degrassi wheel chair riding faggot and thats how you started from the bottom!!!!!
Can u losers just admit drake easily won that battle…drake came in the true underdog and ended up making ..common look stupid as shit. Commons whole verse was corny and he sounded desperate beefing with a kid 20 years younger than him. For common to win, he would have had to crush drake (common is supposed to a hiphop egend) but he didn’t. Drakes verse won an award from XXL, Eliot Wilson called it the best verse of 2012..it was nominated by BET. What did Common do? It was corny and sloppy. It sounded like someone’s old man rapping. You purists will never admit the truth. Drake killed it…
Wrong. Drake lost. His verse was wack and Common served him.
OMG! Eliot Wilson said it, BET said it, Yo said it, I should just fall in line and agree with them, they know.
LOL
FOH clown
Busters need a man around to slap you upside your head and tell YOU to be your own man, get off the next man’s dick.
Fuck BET and Elliot Wilson. They’re both ass-kissers who don’t know shit.
“Busters need a man around to slap you upside your head and tell YOU to be your own man, get off the next man’s dick.”
LMAO!! The irony coming from a Drake dickrider.
Agreed. Common,s verse sucked. Drake is just hated on cuz he’s killing it.
Wrong again, Drake stan.
Lets face it the hiphop nerds on the internet are a minority they are irrelevent they have no impact or influence on hiphop. Their opinions don’t mean shit all they do is hate on whats hot at the moment and act dellusional when truth is said. Fact is common is irrelevent while drake is becoming more and more sucessfull. Drake ultimately won these delusional nerds like to believe in their fairy tales and lies. Go get pussy you internet nerd virgins.
Wrong again, Drake dicksucker.
drake fans over sensationalize everything he does. i would love to see you guys still listening to his music 5 to 10 years from now..
Um, who cares (hand raised)? Rap battles are so weak, they ain’t like they use to be
Drakes eyebrows let nas down
The only thing Common serves are pancakes at Denny.
You wished.
nigga how did you win when you got bodied by sweet, you came back with a few subliminal lines that didnt even land because you, too scared/not talented enough/ needed other people to help the spins/ and then get bodied again when he calls you out by NAME after your little sublim bullshit and you came away with the W? WTF? How you gonna call the canada dry line epic and then in the same sentence say it wasnt a good bar? that shits about as ambiguous as your sexuality.
I was a big common fan but lets ne honest Sweet sucked. His response to stay schemin sucked. “your like the finish line, we can’t wait to run into you”…one line destroyed everything common spit. It was a milder ditto of the jay-z/NaS battle. Jay-z came with the simplistic punch lines, NaS killed with a deep sophisticated assault. Just like how common got ice cube with “bitch in yoo”. Drake got common on stay schemin. The verse was dope. Commons shit was sloppy. I garuntee that he even regrets it. Commons worst career moment. People will always hate drake. Man, they hated jay-z, biggie, all dem number 1 guys. Drake is an even easier target with his GQ looks. But verse-by-verse, it’s easy to see drake easily won an made Common look old/washed up.
You’re wrong about everything, bitch.
WOW. Where to begin.
1 you like the finish line we cant wait to run into you? HAHAH THATS A WIN ALL BAR TO YOU!?!?
That shit is corny as fuck. Especially coming from drake. He dont throw hands he throws bottles like bitches do. Where was the “we” with when there was beef wth that other bitch chris brown? Drake aint hurtin anyone and waynes a fake ass blood who aint shot anyone but himself so whos dyin? YOU AINT WETTIN ANYONE YOU CANDA DRY. That line is 10x better than the finish line bar.
I cant beleive you even compared common and drake to jayz and nas. holy shit. what are you 17? Nothin about jayz is simplistic. Thats why hes one of the best to ever do it. His metaphors and bars went over peoples heads all the time (apparently still do). No one ever hated biggie. Im not even a fan of him and definitely dont think hes the goat but even I know everyone gave and still gives biggie love. Ive always liked nas over jay but Im not bias and Im reasonable. You cant hate hova, hes one of the best to do it. undeniable skill.
Started in the bottom now he queer…
lololol Sweet ass Aubrey. He’s the type of dude to get beat up and stay quiet then tell everyone weeks later he won the fight. Even if Common just slapped him around to promote his album.
This dude Aubrey let the fame get to his head, thinking he’s invincible when he’s not.
Drake bodies wack niggas he is more sucessfull than all the niggas he beefed with. Lets check common irrelevent. Pusha t scared to drop his album after drake bodied him. DMX broke and irrelevent. Chris brown having seizures. DRAKE BODIED ALL THESE NIGGAS DRAKE IS THE FACE OF RAP DRAKE NEXT ALBUM GONNA SHIT ALL OVER EVERYONE ELSES ACKNOWLEDGE THAT DRAKE IS THE FACE OF RAP YOU DELLUSIONAL FAGGOT NERDS.
How’s sucking Drake’s dick like while making up bullshit, bitch?
How can he be the face of rap when he sings too damn much (horribly)?
what has drake done lyrically to say he the best???? crickets…..
Drake the type of nigga that tie his shoes without bending his knees
Lets face it the hiphop nerds on the internet are a minority they are irrelevent they have no impact or influence on hiphop. Their opinions don’t mean shit all they do is hate on whats hot at the moment and act dellusional when truth is said. Fact is common is irrelevent while drake is becoming more and more sucessfull. Drake ultimately won these delusional nerds like to believe in their fairy tales and lies. Go get pussy you internet nerd virgins…
damn this nigga is so insecure about listening to drake he gotta try and convert all the haters into drake fans so he dont feel so gay
hate to say it, but the drake stan is right
NOT!! Hahaha!!
All Drake does is make music, no social policies, amendments, scientific cures or analysis.
LOL at YOU for thinking it’s different.
“you know, the troll is right”
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YOU INTERNET NERDS ARE A MINORITY YOU ARE IRRELEVENT US DRAKE FANS AND ALL THE MAINSTREAM FANS ARE WHATS RELEVENT WE GO TO CONCERTS WE SUPPORT MUSIC ALL YOU NERDS DO IS STAY AT HOME AND SEARCH FOR NEW UNDERGROUND ARTISTS TO DICKRIDE AND TRY TO BE COOL.
you are likely a 15 year old white girl
CANADA DRY. Niggas still say that to dis Drake, just the way Nas made “Ether” a term to describe niggas that got murked on the mic. Drake is a RnB butter soft punk bitch and Common killed him.
Drake had good points…he handled Common
No, he didn’t.
I love to suck and ride Drake dick.
Drake lost.
LMAO ok drake. common murdered him wtf is he talking about coming away with the “w”.
Drake is garbage period!
BULLLSHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H28uibSLdfg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZwsdW6TAl8
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWvSwaC4Kg8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC1YuWwgKP4
gotta admit drake won wheres common now in order to win a battle the battle has to boost you up in commons case he just became irrelevent
Nope.
Common’s a SAG member, an actor, CURRENT, something Drake wants to be when he grows up.
Yes, Common took time out of his AMC series to go into the studio and say Drake’s a “hoe ass n*gga”. You mad? Yes I know Drake’s still getting Degrassi money, but what real n*gga says he started from the bottom?
Btw, that Ice Cream, Throw Your Gunz takeoff of a song is a lazy ass track you gullible sheep gnawed on.
“started with a salad and a pear/thinking ’bout some tofu now my whole team hungry”
“ask 40 were he got that grilled cheese at?/ my sammich has about 4% fat”
LMMFAO
It’s funny seeing how these two clowns fought for being the softest rapper ever. Drake was always the worst rapper on YM along with Tyga and Common was bitch made. Gucci Mane would murk them alive! Also Kendrick the Frog Lamar sucks and so does Tupac. Listen to Justin Bieber the realest nigga ever!
It’s Gucci Time!
hooray! it’s the ORIGINAL Gucci mane troll, glad to have you back homie!
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dude was on Rap Radar
the other Gucci troll & Rozay are the same person
update your troll knowledge
@anon, i dont spend all my time here so i wouldnt know about all the trolls.
Right, you be here every week. Even know you a white boy, young and all. LOL at y’all excuses while “keeping it real”.
lmao
drake acting like he planned everything.he was boxed in, scared, we all know he didn’t want it, even birdman and weezy telling him to not respond and now he wants to act like he was all calm and calculating…bitch, please!! common took this with ‘sweet’ easily!!!
COMMON BODIED THIS R&B ARTIST
LMAO!!!
Drake the type of nigga who drink salad and eat vitamins
He need to worry less about common and spend more time figuring out how he’s going to handle this Kendrick Lamar situation.
-Sincerely Yours
Malone
“you aint wettin nobody, nigga…you Canada Dry” #ButDrakeWonYeahOk
Who ever called me troll kick bricks, dont know who soiceyboi is
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W1tG-m4NSU
this is another reason why I never have and never will like this kid. he does not respect the artform. i got the “w” because my music on the radio/club. that is typical cheesy commercial rapper response.
common diddnt win cause he dissed drake and than bitched out a week later dapping him at the nba all star game being all cool and shit.and drake diddnt win cause he couldnt even mentoin commons name in his diss.and drake saying his diss you’ll hear at a club or radio.eminem said that shit like 10 years ago.cause thats what em use to do.diss ppl ppl on his singles and videos.so drake not being original at all with that one.give both these bitches an L.a big LOSS FOR HIP HOP
Haha Drake is deluded to think he won that battle, still didn’t do shit after he threatened to get physical when he caught feelings
How did you expect degrassi to be? He “started from the bottom” who lives in a pineapple under the sea? uhh, nickelodeon that’s who, spongebob…. Canada Dry and his degrassi checks. Look. Anyone who takes this chap seriously has issues. It’s just hard to hear him say “hardest niggas in the game” when obviously he talking about “gangsta rap” and you got model looking tricks like tyga and him on the team. For real, when have EITHER of them possibly seen hard times? I remember when he was starting degrassi and tyga was a lil cub spitting like he’s the next common himself, all emotional and shit. Fuck outta here.
Common put Drake back in his wheelchair
fuck is he talkin about
DRAKE WON
sure so did the Spurs
Reason why Drake won – He’s STILL relevant and his fame has increased on a positive side (Yes, Common is working on an album, but he hasn’t said anything about it recently)
Reason why Common won – he dissed him on wax and some hip hop heads prefer him over Drake, simply because they love lyricism over fame
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The days of battling someone on wax and winning simply that are over with. These days you have to beat them and make sure they can’t get back up or recover.
Gucci Mane is the realest rapper and heres why.
– all other rappers rap about being gangster shooting and killing but they havent done it.
– Eminem raps about killing he hasnt.
– Jay z raps in open letter about sending shots he hasnt.
– T.I. snitch to the feds
– Young Jeezy was never bmf
– 50 Cent snitch and was never in jail but a youthcamp
– Game was never a banger but lived the life of his brother in his lyrics
– Nas Escobar never sold drugs
– Ice Cube never was a gangbanger
– Dr Dre never was a gangbanger
– Snoop was never a crip
– 2pac was a ballerina and never sold drugs after he become famous he was doing some stupid stuff like beating and shooting at people because he though he could get away with it. Without Suge Knight 2pac was just a skinny motherf*cker.
– Mobb deep are the biggiest cowards in rap they are short as midgets and keep talking this g sh*t but never did g sh*t.
– Most of the rappers rap about stuff they havent done yet you all support them and say its real rap.
– When rick ross does it you all claim he is fake and say its fake rap.
This shows that hiphop fans are hypocritical and all these real hiphop fan wanna be’s are just some unjustified haters whose opinions are just as irrelevent as the swag fag rapper fans.
BIG GUWOP KILLED A MAN HE WAS A DRUG DEALER BEFORE RAPPER HE HAS STREET CREDENTIALS HE IS THE ONLY RAPPER THAT RAPS ABOUT FACTS THERE FORE BIG GUWOP IS THE REALEST RAPPER IN THE RAP GAME AND THATS A FACT!
@ Gucci tha releast….You are retarded and his why
< you like gucci mane> end of story
In reply I quote puffy to biggy ‘our business is about the streets it aint in the streets’. Youre issue with pac is he didnt sell drugs once he became famous, durr who sells drugs when theyre rapping and in the limelight you fucking idiot, rappings about telling the stories people can empathise with, not shooting someone then getting on a track going ‘yehh i shot a man’, gucci mane cant rap in a way people connect with thats why he aint the best, rap is just stories if you dont feel em they aint shit
DRAKE CAUGHT THE SUPREME L. WHO GIVES A FUCK IF HIS RECORD PLAYED IN THE CLUB, COMMON SHUT HIM DOWN LIKE HE SHUT CUBE DOWN YEARS AGO. FUCK OUTTA HERE
mane fuck dat nigga drake y’all ain’t shit nigga common done ether’d that ass knowmsayin’ straight up n down he a better actor AND rapper than drake real talk my nigga word up.
please talk properly, you are not cool
common killed him on the stay schemin remix hahah
Drake ethered that soft pussy ass nigga.
cool story
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Hi everybody
D’oh
This shit proves he doesn’t belong in hip hop. If you’re in a battler, it’s not up to you to decide if you won, that decision resides in the court of public opinion. Tell this dude to have a seat somewhere and learn this craft.
poor man’s nate dogg fuck outta here
Lol.
Nate Dogg was the poor one, and if alive would be begging Drake to work with him. Broke ass hook man lol
You’re wrong, bitch.
How can you win a battle you didn’t even take part in? As soon as this guy saw Common he started kissing his ass. Now he wants to act all arrogant like he did something, a year after the fact. It’s just like when Pusha T was denying dissing cash money, then a year later he said he killed a whole crew. These new rappers are cowards and they only want to talk behind peoples backs and through subliminals like bitches. I’m not impressed
you seem to be forgetting that common initially denied that the diss was to drake. he fundamentally denied it. until he was pushed and pressured and to own up and he finally caved in.
It’s just funnny to me that you’re sitting here acting like drake is such a beef for squashing the beef to soon when common did the exact same thing you called ross a bitch for doing…. denying and dodging.
On a lyrical level drake murdered him with stay schemin. that one hot canada dry dry line is not enough to win a battle. the rest of the rap sucked
but i do agree rappers are coward these days
Com didn’t deny shit. He was asked if it was about Drake and he said ‘if the shoe fits…’.
^are you serious? google “common denies dissing drake”.
time to admit your mans was being a bitch. stop making excuses for him. stop the selective bias bullshit. nigga straight lied like a coward
Drake did not murder Common with that wack ass Stay Schemin verse. Common’s remix got him. Also, the media blows shit up and fabricates beef to sell stories.
man this bitch ass dude said the same thing Nelly said when him and KRS was going at it. Nelly said he was going to make a club banger to respond to KRS….so people would hear it over and over again. THATS THAT PUSSY POP MENTALITY SHIT. Drake knows Common don’t get no play in the clubs….so he tries to take it to that platform where he will look victorius on some (I’m more popular than you” highschool shit. If i was Common now after reading that shit….I WOULD LAUNCH A FULL ON ATTACH AND BLAST THIS BITCH NIGGA NOW….fuck it……i’m talking bout the ” the bitch in you” type diss
they both lost
COMMON MURKED HIM WITH SWEET
FUCK DRAKE PUSSY CLOT
WHAT DOES DRAKE NO ABOUT BARS HE SINGS
wow ur stupid bars doesnt mean lyrics in music
Com Sense got the W on that one. When most memorable line of the battle was from your opponent, how the fuck do you think you won? Because you made a club song? GTFOH.
This is a tough one. On one hand you have Common who is an accomplished and well respected emcee. On the other hand you have Drake, a popular and very talented emcee as well. What we should really ask is why did Common diss Drake in the first place. Well the culprits are the labels. Someone at Common’s label prompted him to make the only truly questionable move of his career, and it backfired. Common did indeed benefit from the beef but not in the sales department. Common had many people in his corner simply because a lot of people hate Drake, but them same cats ain’t going out there to buy a Common album, most of them probably never have bought a common album. On the other hand you have Drake who in his short career has gained many fans but probably twice as many people who don’t like him for many reasons, but the boy can spit.
In the end. Drake has the slight edge cause Common has no business calling anyone soft. And Common’s only reason to diss Drake was sales.
You’re so off base. 1st of all Common is far from soft, he’s a 4 Corner affiliate. 2nd of all, he didn’t do it for sales. Common has never even gone platinum to my knowledge so mainstream has never been his motivation.
He’s never gone platinum because not enough people like his music. His fans are pretty loyal so you know people will ride dick but come sept. 17th you’ll see a million sell. I’m buying 100,000 myself so i know he’ll do well. Common is a little washed up under the wing of his little bro kanye the god. HAHA. he is pretty funny too that kanye guy his new album sounded like a couple gems with a bunch of garbage and if you argue you tried to like it. dont lie. hip hop needs to be guided by good fans, don’t just pick a dude and ride it out if they make shitty music. Paul pierce. bibby i see you, crosbby only on the 6th
I have all the albums of both artists. They both dope.
I’m a big Common fan, but he had no reason to go after Drake. It was pretty lame.
fuck drake he aint hiphop common is
Common isn’t hip hop either. More like elevator crap rap.
Wrong. Common is hip-hop.
Drake, you won? Hell to the naw!
Stop frontin, Drake. He know he listened to that shit mad times. He lost because, as usual, he used subliminals and hid on a track with 2 other niggas.
The dude is delusional if he thinks he got a W out of that. He barely responded. And Common ripped his shit up. “So half black and half white/ tryin to lead a nigga’s life.” That shit was cold. Also, all beef has always been about promoting yourself or your album over the next dude. Takeover was the lead single to The Blueprint album; Ether was the lead single to Nas’ joint at the time. When you grow up in the hood you understand that if you try to come outside shinin there’s gonna be people who are gonna test you on GP. That’s where Hip Hop gets that spirit from. Drake don’t know the first thing about it.
Drake is the last rapper who should be talking about bars
Drake’s delusional. The only line anybody remembers from his response is “Bitch, you wasn’t with me shootin in the gym!” and that wasn’t even directed toward Common.
you guys are gay
Yup, they are so fucking homosexual
Speaking on this nOW?????????? Eat a dick boy
damn drake be trippin.drake acting like he planned everything.he was boxed in, scared, we all know he didn’t want it, even birdman and weezy telling him to not respond and now he wants to act like he was all calm and calculating…bitch, please!! common took this with ‘sweet’ easily!!!
dude DECIDES himself, that he won the battle. fuck public opinion on the matter. dude should be a comedian. i hear there are a lot of great jewish comedians!
Common lost the “beef” the moment he called Drake a sweet ass nigga. Seriously, Common has himself plastered on GAP billboard and he’s calling ANYONE soft?
Common is a reformed Black P Stone and came out hard in his debut, not to mention beating Biggie Smalls when the Source’s Unsigned Hype was a contest in other words he paid dues and don’t forget what he did to West Side Connection. Drake came out of nowhere popular which is why his position will always be questioned. Fuck the Gap ads, Drake is going to end up on an episode of Glee by 2014.
i like drake and common but Drake did NOT come away with a W. it seems like an unfinished battle. Drake should come back on him, but maybe drake just has nothing else to say about common.
It is hard to come at Common since his lyricism it better than drake.
this is such bullshit… it’s like getting swept in the finals and claiming victory! Drake got Bodied!! Murked! this is like Rick Ross claiming victory over 50, fuckin IMPOSSIBLE!!
Common dressing a certain way doesn’t mean shit, his lyrical skills are Superior, any REAL hiphop fan aka the ones that listen to lyrics more than a beat, knows the difference…
No, Drake, you did not win. Stop it! Even your fans know you lost that one.
Drake lost only he believe otherwise, and his fans have to bring up stuff about Common that’s unrelated to the battle to aleviate being butthurt about it.
“Common’s a SAG member, an actor”
One of the worst.
No, that goes to Drake.
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Somebody, anybody, please get Drake some help a.s.a.p.
Drake Wtf nigga Kendrick just dissed you on a epic ass track and your talking about Common ? he ain’t done shit in months kendrick just stabbed hip hop in the neck and he’s talking about common now
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45D55h0DGNo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or6aXEHG1xs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExH5VU5iq9Q
LMAO!!!… In your dreams, you clown. Common bodied your wack ass.
Not the biggest fan of Drake, but he’s spot on.. Common went for shock bars instead of dropping anything real strong or witty, almost sounds like bar filler.
On the other hand.. “Sweet” was venom.. the video made it worse.
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Yall need to understand that you don’t need street credit to rap… Drake’s doin his thing makin more money than all these other rappers reguardless. He don’t give a fuck if he won against Common or not…
He has an ego just like every other rapper, and if he didn’t care, he wouldn’t be talking about it and lying to himself that he won the battle.
He does care if he won or not or he would have made that statement. Just because Drake has more money than Common doesnt make him better. Drakes music is more commercial but lyrically Drake cant see Common AT ALL. And Sweet wasnt even about Drake, Drake took it a certain why and was disrecpectful when he talked about being with Serena when Common dated her. So Common went at Drakes pops. Words can cut both ways
The best proof of who won or lost is success. Drake has only become more prominent since the battle; common has become less relevant. Album sales wise, its just embarassing for common. I used to follow common since the resurrection days. His battle with drake will be a stain on his resume. If he went after Jay-z, NaS or someone from his era, it would have been more interesting. But Drake? I mean, c’mon, hes like a kid in comparison..neither one of these guys are hard. The commentators on this website just hate Drake but anyone who looks at it unbiased, Drake clearly won. He played it right. Hence he is on the cover of XXL. Common? No mag cover except Jet
What does success have to do with a rap battle? Nothing.
“Hence he is on the cover of XXL”
^ if this ain’t dickriding, I don’t know what is
NO. A BATTLE IS VERSE FOR VERSE, NOT WHO IS MORE “SUCCESSFUL”OR WHO MAKES MORE MONEY.
This is a stupid, bullshit excuse that people make up when their favorite rapper gets beat on the mic. So Jay-Z won because he made more than Nas? LL beat Canibus too right? FUCK NO. Too many of these “fans” don’t even analyze lyrics, they just back their favorite rapper on some emotional shit.
Actually incorrect…I like drake and like common..just to be clear…first..NaS definantly beat Jay-z. you can hear Jay-‘s sense of defeat in Blueprint 2.. Jay-Z knows he lost. Thats why going after NaS’ kids/ex-girl (superugly) was a desperate attempt to regain grounding ( just like Common going after Drake’s family). In most cases, Battles are won when the MC says something interesting about the other MC. They give you a new way to look at the MC and you think “yeah, thats true…never thought that”…Nas’ Ether went after Jay-Z on so many fronts (with the whole puffy/biggie and dame/jayz comparison thing/ how much jay-z mentions biggie to help his career, “I get it you rock fellas”etc). Those lines destroyed anything Jay-Z rhymed on and NaS was the underdog. On top of it, Jay-z best line dis against nas was illmatic was his only dope album. Nas responded with stillmatic – another classic. Now compare Common vs Drake, Drake was the underdog. He has no street cred. hiphop purists hate him vehemently. Drake is a very very easy target. Everyone knows this. He is a light-skin soft looking from Canada and was on kids TV show. He famously freestyled with a blackberry. Its like shooting fish in a barrel for common. Easy as hell. So likewise, Common pulls out Canada dry – big deal. Very easy line. It’s cute. But I got 15 year olds that could pull that out of their ass in a freestyle. Drake was in a much more peculiar position. he had his credibility on the line from a hiphop legend and not much street cred or respect from purists but he pulled through. To win that battle, common had to destroy his career ala jay-z vs mobb deep – drake is such an easy target. But nothing really happened to drake at all, in fact, he became even more successful. He had “take care” playing everywhere just like NaS had stillmatic. Common had what the name of that album playing nowhere. Be real folks. It’s obvious
THIS STUPID CLOWN ACTUALLY THINKS DRAKE HAS BECOME MORE PROMINENT BECAUSE OF THE BEEF WITH COMMON. You are a total idiot. Fuckin moron…
“No, that goes to Drake”
Wait till he starts getting movie roles. Then we’ll judge whose the better actor. Common is so raw he actually makes 50 look like Denzel.
And why do we need to wait and judge? Pretty sure many of us could give a rat’s ass about who’s a better actor between them. You go on ahead and cheer on the sidelines stargazer.
Look at Degrassi. That’s all you need to know about Aubrey’s acting.
Drake spit a 30-something bar verse. Common killed him with one line … “Canada Dry”. Aubrey never responded after that and months later he said he won. He got bitter when he got called out for being a punk then got beat down like one after he tried taking a swing.
Only reason Common would seem as though he’s fallen into ‘irrelevancy’ after this battle is because it didn’t do much. Drake knew he couldn’t win so he walked away/dropped it and no one else has the balls to speak up on the bullshit Young/Cash Money is putting out. So all these other ‘credible’ emcees act like they didn’t see it happen and walk away.
Actually incorrect…I like drake and like common..just to be clear…first..NaS definantly beat Jay-z. you can hear Jay-‘s sense of defeat in Blueprint 2.. Jay-Z knows he lost. Thats why going after NaS’ kids/ex-girl (superugly) was a desperate attempt to regain grounding ( just like Common going after Drake’s family). In most cases, Battles are won when the MC says something interesting about the other MC. They give you a new way to look at the MC and you think “yeah, thats true…never thought that”…Nas’ Ether went after Jay-Z on so many fronts (with the whole puffy/biggie and dame/jayz comparison thing/ how much jay-z mentions biggie to help his career, “I get it you rock fellas”etc). Those lines destroyed anything Jay-Z rhymed on and NaS was the underdog. On top of it, Jay-z best line dis against nas was illmatic was his only dope album. Nas responded with stillmatic – another classic. Now compare Common vs Drake, Drake was the underdog. He has no street cred. hiphop purists hate him vehemently. Drake is a very very easy target. Everyone knows this. He is a light-skin soft looking from Canada and was on kids TV show. He famously freestyled with a blackberry. Its like shooting fish in a barrel for common. Easy as hell. So likewise, Common pulls out Canada dry – big deal. Very easy line. It’s cute. But I got 15 year olds that could pull that out of their ass in a freestyle. Drake was in a much more peculiar position. he had his credibility on the line from a hiphop legend and not much street cred or respect from purists but he pulled through. To win that battle, common had to destroy his career ala jay-z vs mobb deep – drake is such an easy target. But nothing really happened to drake at all, in fact, he became even more successful. He had “take care” playing everywhere just like NaS had stillmatic. Common had what the name of that album playing nowhere. Be real folks. It’s obvious
jay called out nas in front of a crowd in new york and shook hands to promote both there music and sell more records overcoming the beef shit trying to sell peace from a business prespective thats good i suppose, that was the biggest fued since the one that took the lives of the greatest so. IMO there hasnt been a beef since Nas and jay that deserves hype. well i guess 50 and game but whatever nowadays its to sell records like drizzy poiutns out
Everything said by OP about Common and Drake is a lie.
Nothing happened to Drake huh? Well that is what most kids think but in the hiphop culture we all took notice that Drake loss that battle and we all took a mental note that Drake is not real hiphop artist. More pop then hiphop. Fast forward to find out he uses ghostwriters and reference tracks. Makes this dispute make more since why he couldn’t go back at Common like he did Meek. Can’t have someone write, perform, and then you perform it so fast if Common is willing to go back at you within a day. Also Jay-Z won that battle. You were 10 when that battle came out.
Drake, SHUT YOUR GAY ASS THE FUCK UP. Common is a fuckin legend and would SON you any day. You’re a Pop singer. Keep your fuckin mouth shut (I know that’s pretty hard because you always got a dick in it).
“Pretty sure many of us could give a rat’s ass about who’s a better actor between them”
Then don’t respond retard.
Drake, shut the fuck up you , fucking Canada dry. Common is a legend, his won every battle you guys had. all your shit is lame dude and you sound like a bitch nigga. common is the teacher and you’re the student learned from hin cuz you’re shit sucks bitch
it aint a diss saying that some rappers rap about buks when all you got to comfort you is bucks and lame mic shucks. Rap done changed fo shizzel, but once we get out this non rappin drill era, these non technical rappers gon be exposed.
Drake can’t rap so he pause, while common adheres to only spit bars. He can play it in the club all he want but he still lost.
Typical Drake. Self pronounced action hero. That’s the reason why real MC’s diss him to wake him up to the real. The game that influenced him, he saved?! It’s the dead era he the R&B version of Hammer. Celine Dion, Nickleback. All embarrassments to Canada cause dey like you son. Arrogant. No back-up ‘cept radio plays and pop drunk clucks.
His bars about rap changed like those that came up in the struggle ain’t rapping about the real, because pop knows better. Biting is still biting. He diss the whole genre with his imperial version of his story, you know, the self pronounced action hero. The greatest. The dead rappers wouldn’t survive cause he figured out Pop. Riiight dude. You play the media up like people dissing you cause you a sensitive story teller. Sham.
Aubrey be on some MC Hammer game. You know since hammer had pop radio plays means he dissed Jay-Z right? If Hammer wasn’t still alive I be calling out Aubrey on reincarnation. He back out the battle like he be a king annoyed by the truth that he can’t lead only bleed if this shit get serious. The boy delirious. The self proclaimed victor saying Common bars no good. Common just said he just waisting time with you son. So use the media as a tool to pretend like you better.
Can’t get enough of how wrong this kid is. It’s entertaining. He smart playing coy. I give him that. We all know he loving this cause he has no business being in the conversation. Battle ain’t radio son. Battle is the game. Not what you pronounce in the media.
Search youtube ‘Rockn Rolla Dance Scene’ to see who he biting lately for Bling Hotline.
To the person(s) who believe that success is an indicator of who won this battle. I will only say this, Drake is in a class of “artists” that rely more on gimmicks than talent to sell records. Matter of fact you can say that about cash money records in general. Common has talent, Drake is about gimmicks. Drake lost this battle before it ever started.