Cassidy spoke exclusively with VladTV and shared his thoughts on Meek Mill’s “Wanna Know” Drake diss during a phone interview published Friday (July 31).
“I don’t know why the dudes around him even gave him the okay. Like, ‘Yeah, that’s it. That’s the one,'” Cassidy says.
Cassidy, who was also involved in his own beef with Meek Milly in 2012, seemingly sides with Drake in the feud between the two emcees, calling Meek’s response weak and saying that he expected more from the MMG rapper.
“Because Meek started it and started to put the shit all out on Twitter like he usually do,” the “Hotel” rapper says. “I’m thinking he got one in the chamber and I’m thinking he’s getting ready to crazy on the boy.”
“[Drake] surprised me,” the Larsiny Family rapper continues. “He did more than what I expected and Meek did wild less than what I expected.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Cassidy also addresses ghostwriting in Rap.
“It’s been plenty of rappers that I have liked they music my whole life before I knew them and then when I got a chance to meet them they wanted me to write for them,” Cass says. “So I’m like ‘Damn.’ I’m writing for niggas that I look up to because I always thought they was crazy, but it wasn’t really them that was crazy. It was them and a group of niggas, whoever they was working with at the time, that got them crazy or played a part in them getting crazy.”
Cassidy says that because of these experiences, he is not dismayed by the use of ghostwriters in Rap.
“I don’t go and announce the rappers that I have written for,” he says. “That’s not to say that the people you just named but some type of big names, big people I done gave stuff to time and time again. I know other people that done gave them stuff. I done seen it. It’s so many times that I done seen it and the majority of the music that comes out, it is a team of people working on it to make it happen so I wouldn’t be shocked. I would be shocked if a dude spitted on his own 100% all by himself. Then I would be shocked because that’s what’s hard to find especially from a nigga that’s lit.”
The full VladTV phone interview with Cassidy is as follows:
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HAHA, now all the people that believed everyone wrote their shit on their own… go ahead and stfu
Because cassidy said so lol. Kill yourself.
sure alot of rappers are writing 100%…on their wack throwaway tracks
Cassidy is eazy to five most artist don’t write anymore and hat akes away from the craft no real gangstas in rap anym
ore they died in early 2000$
RAID was pretty damaging in itself but Meek kept it movin, I see he trying to ignore Drake now
Cassidy killed Meek on RAID but this younger generation did’nt care cause it was cass but you see with Drake it seemed like most of Meeks fans turned there backs on him, all the little kids shiting on Meek now lol
Initially Meek was gonna use the Hit Em Up beat, but it’s been done, Eminem already killed Benzino on that beat. Plus there’s no way Flex was gonna play that beat in NY. That’s when I realized that Meek was way outta his league on this beef.
Meek already used the hit em up beat on the diss track he made against cassidy called “kendrick you next.” so i don’t know who told you that.
Meek comeback would have been better without the talking shit between his verses. It just made it seem like he had nothing to offer. He should have just kept tweetin. As far as Cassidy go, his freestyle shit (If they was actually freestyles), go way harder than both of these niccas. Whether it’s beef or not, I can at least appreciate some rivalry in hip hop to change the plateau.
cassidy preach
The problem is People Are forgetting That rapper are entertainers. Entertainers have people to write lyrics and songs for them all the time No one said anything about An r&b artist get someone to write a song for them. Recordlabels Have Artist at all it is an act Everybody that came in from the streets aren’t from the street
You said it well “R&B”. This is hip hop not pop or rnb. Rap has different rules. Ghostwriters are not accepted and phony. If you new skool kids dont like it go listen pop.
@kareka, what you said is true and false. it’s not excepted in hip hop when it’s publicly known, but everyone on the inside knows who has ghost writers. and…ghostwriting has always existed. i’m an og hip hop fan but you can’t talk about new school kids when cube was writing for the whole nwa.
Its ok in the other genres because everybody can’t sing or play an instrument. That takes talent and that talent is marketable. In rap, if someone else is writing the song, then I might as well listen to that person. If they’re writing it, they’re also delivering it (a la the reference track Flexx was referencing) so what do we need the “rapper” for? Just market the ghost writer and cut out the middle man.
There’s a reason there are rap battle leagues and they aren’t pop battle leagues… Writing matters in hip hop culture bra
Cassidy is top 5 bro.. holla at your boy #NYCMG
Nigga Please!
Cassidy can freestyle alright but his studio tracks are garbage for the most part. So if rappers want him to write for them, hip hop is in a state of emergency.
dude u must be high on some stale crack. what you listen to these days, Trinidad James?
Another reason more than ever mainstream hip hop is in dismay. Alarming. One thing rappers had on most other music artists is they write their own stuff. This story needs to go away keep it silent. No one wants to know that shot and even if you do after you find out, disappointment.
Notice that he said he wouldn’t be surprised if Pac didn’t write all his shit after saying he’s worked with his heroes. It would have been more natural to go to somebody like Jay-Z or one of those such heroes still alive that he’s actually met to make that point, which should help you read between the lines if you’re not slow. But like I said on this before. Keep believing in the fairy tales that all these mainstream rappers who make pop songs don’t have dudes writing lines for them because you wanted to use this as an aside to go at Drake. It reminds me of the black bitch thing that dudes used to try to go at Eminem, trying to take some shit out of context that he said to a girlfriend to prove he was racist and discredit that dude handle those mics.
Hip Hop fans seem to be the only fans that have a problem with this? Why? I think it’s because most fans forget that this is entertainment. They want their artists to be “real” and fail to remember this is the entertainment business. Real gangsters don’t make songs about the shit they do
Hip hop is music. You want entertainment? Go watch a movie.
Actually, Rap is the music, Hip Hop is a broader movement that embraces Rap as it’s music style.
This is very common in all forms of music. Yes, even Hip Hop. What’s your point?
in other music forms, musicians have a skill. They sing, they play drums, guitar, whatever to prove their skill. They might not write the songs, but they have the skill. In rap, there’s really only one skill you can have: your pen. if you letting other people write your music, it shows that you lack the only skill that makes you a credible artist in rap; song writing. I can’t believe people still need this explained to them
Rapping is a skill. Cadence, delivery, breath control, voice inflection and many other things go into rapping. My name says it all
Cassidy killed meek on Condom style, myself and iphone, diary of husla, raid, dopest niga out, Meek only yelled back bt it was’t loud enough 2 come @ Cassidy.