DJ Drama gave his final word on the Drake/Meek Mill beef today (July 12) in an interview with New York radio station Hot 97.
“I’ma say this then we’re gonna leave it,” he tells the hosts. “We’re gonna put it to rest.”
When asked about his involvement in the feud, Drama says that Meek Mill thought Drake was dissing him on his “R.I.C.O.” verse when he said, “The girl of your dreams to me is probably not a challenge.” The Philadelphia rapper is dating Nicki Minaj, a long-time friend of Drizzy’s. There were rumors the two were romantically involved before she was with Meek Mill.
“I said, ‘Bro, he’s not dissing you,'” Drama says he told Meek, “… ‘Those weren’t technically his bars.’ Then everything from there turned.”
The entire beef started when Meek Mill took to Twitter claiming that Drake used a ghostwriter for his “R.I.C.O.” verse. Drake released two diss tracks and the alleged ghostwriter, Quentin Miller, denied writing for him.
Funkmaster Flex took Meek Mill’s side in the battle and released several reference tracks where Miller rapped Drake’s songs.
Drama’s ex-wife, Summer P. Walker, alleged on Twitter that Drama gave Meek Mill the reference tracks, a claim that he has previously denied and refuted again to Hot 97.
“I was gonna tell y’all go ask Flex where he got the records from,” Drama asserts. “He didn’t get ’em from me. Go ask Meek where he got the records from. He didn’t get ’em from me … I definitely wouldn’t have did that. It goes against my business. It goes against my ethics. I had a conversation with my man about something and from there it just blew out of proportion.”
The Quality Street Music coordinator explains why he has tried to stay out of the beef between the two artists that he works with.
“I never felt like it was necessarily my place or my story to tell,” he says. “That was between those guys. Clearly, my name got thrown in the mix, so I was put in an awkward position. Outside of that, that’s it.”
Watch the entire interview with DJ Drama below:
Those reference tracks got like 4 bars here and there and a hook here and there. Big deal. There isnt a major rapper in hiphop history who hasnt took a few bars. The complete tracks do not even match the reference tracks. Meek Mill all paranoid cuz Drake clearly banged Nicki. Meek dating and battling way out of his league. He needs a major song without a feature from a better artist.
Wow. You obviously are a poo butt new booty. Dudes where clowning Kay-Z back in the day for this same shit. At least he wrote his own shit. A battle/diss track directed at an enemy written by Aubry Frake and Quentin Miller but you don’t hear Quentin at all on the track? LOLOLOL. Dude admitted he doesn’t write his rhymes, and is now FOREVER remembered as number 3 after Vanilla Ice and MC hammer. If you are even REMOTLEY a Hip-Hop head. Disavow any knowledge of this ass clown. He lip syncs over his own vocals “live” on stage. All verified facts. Not Hip-Hop at all.. At least Meeks whack ass wrote his own shit. Dude fojnd a reason to repond to Murder Mook and Meek, but not Buddens? I am guessing he doesn’t want to give Miller credit for writing the response on publishing, and they are beefing over that. LOLOLOLOLOL. Industry heads know what’s up. K dot, Eminem and the ENTIRE east coast are laughing at this turtle neck pop tart queer bait…
Actually #4, Diddy is 3, remember the infamous line “dont worry if i write rhymes, i write checks”
Not an artist in history? Pac,Big,Big L, Big Pun, the entire WU (excluding ODB), BDK, Rakim, KRS, Public Enemy, Ice Cube, Too $hort, Outkast, Gang Starr, Gheto Boys, UGK, Triple 666, … I don’t have time to name them all.. You should not comment on a Hip-Hop site ever again. Hit up TEen Choice or some other shit. More like minded individuals who don’t knew shit about hip-hop. Smoked…
@ out your mind with that BS and your friend. U two hiphop “experts” are in for a history lesson. U named the entire Wu aside ODB. Ghostface used 4 bars by Method Man – its well-known and has ghostwriting allegations from Supreme. Ice Cube had bars and entire songs written for him by Del The Funkee Homosapien – this isnt even debated. Public Enemy’s Chuck D had an entire album and songs written by Paris. In fact, Chuck D is on record for saying he has no problem with ghostwriters. How about Mase writing for Big L. Im just getting started with you dumb nerds. How about Q-Tip wrote verses for Phife Dawg on the first tribe album. Nas had lines edited for Illmatic by Large Profressor. Nas had collaborators for Untitled too. How about LL Cool J wrote an entire song for Run DMC. Big Daddy Kane wrote entire songs for Biz. Need I go on? Do I need to get into hooks? Because most the accusations against Aubrey are regarding hooks period NOT EVEN COMPLETE SONGS and I can tell you producers in hiphop are generally required to always write hooks for artists. Just like how Jay-Z lifted an uncredited Ice-T hook for 99 Problems. IF YOU ALL CONSIDER YOURSELVES HIPHOP EXPERTS, STEP IT UP CAUSE YOU SOUND NAIVE. Drake’s crime was becoming the biggest hiphop artist in the world and from day one: its been the freestyling thing, the singing thing and now its the collaborating-being-called-ghostwriting thing but they all things everyone in hiphop has done before. KNOW YOU HIPHOP KIDDIES. Youre naive.
True though every artist has used bars previously said at one time or another or had a ghost write I.E. 50 ghost wrote 1 verse in Paradise,
WTF. Shut up. Please. You know nothing. Incoherent jibbeish. Grown men are speaking.
Please dude. You don’t know shit. That Nas shit was refuted by the people the Internet claimed wrote for him. Large professor wanted Nas to edit his own shit for content and continuity on “Live at The BBQ” by Main source. And he did. The original verse was much longer than a usual 16 bars, sice Nas back then freestyled all of his shit, before he sucked. Large Professor actually wanted him to remove the refrences of “kidnapping the presidents son” and the KKK, idiot, because he was, and still is, a scared little bitch. How come “Xtra P” put out several wack ass albums since and it sounds NOTHING like Nas? Dummy. I figured I would share that with you, since you might actually know a little. He himself (Xtra P) said as much in an interview that is ALL over YouTube. The Del shit that you claim is actually backwards, you must be dislexic. Dr. Bombay and Mr. Dobalina was written by who? Check the credits. O Jackson. Nerd. Del even says so. I actually talked to Del himself about it, and again, he admits to as much in a publicized interview, it was the only way Cube allowed him to release his album that Cube lined up for him and later sodomized him for royalties on. Del wrote lyrics for Da Lynch mob’s shit on Amerikkk’s most wanted, sice they couldn’t rap, and where ice Cube’s cheerleaders and street cred since they where real crips, and Cube was from the Valley and barely had been jumped in to Rolling 60’s, even though he had been claiming that shit since the mid 80’s because of another cousin of his. DJ Quik and others from the West where ragging on dude for being phony. I have all of this vinyl right here by my Vestax mixer and Technics 1200’s chump. Actually, I have all of these records you are trying to speak on and have owned them since they came out, on vinyl. Poo but. No one said anything about ATCQ or Phife Dog, because no one cares. Q-Tip was always the voice of that group. All of the Wu would come up with “cyphers” together than later spit them. Other than ODB, they have all gone on record by saying NONE of them ever wrote shit for each other, other than them ALL contributing for ODB who was a crack head, yet they credit each other for who came up with what, fiucktard. The “Wu Tang Clan ain’t Nothing to Fuck with” was coined by Inspektah Deck. The term “protect your neck” was coined by the RZA while they where watching “Master of the flying Guillotine” together, high as fuck. Large professor or Xtra P, has been exposed for being a PRODUCER claiming to have written rhymes he flat out didn’t write. You are NAIVE. Nerd. Anyone who heard 99 problems and didn’t know it was a reference and Dick riding of ICE T doesn’t know shit about Hip-Hop. I was hating on Jay-Z at the time for just that. He tried to play it off on Girls, Girls video by putting Biz in the Video and as you yourself stated (the only shit you got right) BDK wrote that. Hence my comment on people hating on Jay-Z back in the day. Supreme HIMSELF says he didn’t write shit for Ghost so you got clowned on that one. You must be Canadian or something. Niggas like myself from NY who have been collecting records, and down with this shit since the 80s know what’s up. Biz has Down syndrome. He covers mad songs by Elton John of all people. Is anyone accusing him of writing “Rocket Man” or “Benny and the Jets?” LOLOLOL. You just herbed yourself. Of Course LL wrote shit in the 80’s for Run DMC. One song. Not a diss track/battle rap response by the way, which was the foundation of this discussion. Talking about experts. Try that shit with Drake fans… It might fly. They have Justin Bieber as a reference for Canadian pop reality. That turtleneck of yours is on too tight. It’s cutting off your circulation. Dork. Again, Mase heard that rumor about him writing shit for Big L and he himself said that was a flat out lie, and L could write rhymes around all of the cats in NY at the time. I was here actually. In my Bronx apartment listening to Stretch and Bobbito. I went to a lot of these shows. I have had conversations with my man Stretch about this shit several times, other legends like Lord Finess, DJ Clark Kent, Battle Axe from the West Coast, my man Mixmaster Mike, Mike Nardone…yet you know more than they (we) do right? Chuck D fel out with Flavor Flave for him being a crack head and asked Paris to help him on te album you mentioned due to contractual issues. I ain’t fucking with PE, nor is anyone else nowadays. Dudes took way too many hard line stands on issues that later came back to bite them in the ass. Again, the point is DRAKE had a battle diss track that was written by himself and Quentin Miller. Millers voice is not heard on the record. Can you say the same for “the Bridge is Ober” by BDP or say “No Vaseline” by Cube? You could, but you would be lying. You are talking about a POP artist. These people you mention are MCs, capable of spitting FREESTYLES with a DJ spinning records while changing beats and BPMs. Drake is a SINGER. And a shitty one at that. He lip syncs over his own vocals on stage like his compatriot Justin Bieber. I patiently await your EXPERT poo butt response. Weenie
@ GTFOH. You wrote a diatribe and u have some knowledge so kudos but u have lots of errors. Firstly, Nas has admitted Large P edited his rhymes for Illmatic. This isnt about his debut with Main Source. There is a complex article detailing this. Just Google it. Plus u did not re-but the stic.man collaboration which still stands undisputed. Method Man said he wrote the first four lines of Cherchez La Ghost for Ghostface. It is well-known..please google it. Once again, this was never re-butted. so your Wu theory doesnt work. Del wrote joints for Ice Cube and there are articles out there where Del says this. Just google it. One is recent. Of course, Cube like Drake can write. Its just a way to give young upstarts an opportunity. Same with Mase re: writing for Big L.I have never seen or heard the rebuttal. Mase said he wrote of lot of Big Ls best lines in a popular interview. You seem to show off knowledge like you may have even worked in the industry even though your knowledge seems scattered. But at any rate, if you have, then, you should know giving youngins a shot and having them collaborate with a legend is very typical in hiphop as are hooks on beats sent by producers. If you listen to Drake’s references and the final versions – it sounds like hooks and probably 4 additional bars with 10 Bands and RICO which are the most damning references. The rest of references like Used To and Know Yourself is really singing and they simply seem like hooks – normal in hiphop. As I said, this is no big deal in hiphop. And BTW, lived in Queens, NY and Jersey City for 10 years through 94- 2004 so please dont play that card. Hate Drake all you want but I cant dispel the fact that most Drake critics are criticizing Drake’s image not his music. Everytime I hear a criticism of Drake, its some boy band shit but its indisputable the guy can spit when he wants to. History will be the judge. I heard the same crap leveled at Drake about Jay-Z and Biggie in their primes by NY dudes all day long so he will either going down as a legend or like MC hammer like you guys are praying. But good luck with that because his so-called hiphop crimes are nothing new. Making art is often collaborative. Despite the fantasies, Hiphop is no different.
So how come ur boy drake paid 100,000 to Rappin for tay for robin his bars on who do u luv wit yg
So you incorrectly (as pointed out in the response above by someone WAY more knowledgeable in Hip-Hop than you are) selected a few of the MCs on the fore mentioned list as legends who always wrote their own shit. Not POP artists. MCs. And got clowned ridiculously. Maybe dudes earlier suggestion of you hitting up the Teens Coice site with your copy and paste history of Hip-Hop is a good idea after all…
Got eeeeeeeeeem!
Needs a major track without a feature? LOLOLOL. All of Drake’s tracks are “co-written” by people we DON’T hear on the track. What about the album with future? The album he is planning on riding Gucci’s dick on? GTFOH. You should not be talking Hip-Hop. Pop Tart bitch boy…
are you out of your minds , 4 bars written , do you know what 4 bars are and what 16 bars is? flex played whole songs done by miller and played the exact songs by drake not 4 bars whole songs you idiot. i live in ny i was listening to the radio when flex played the records, this is why dram says he didn’t get the tracks from me. why because they were tracks , whole records done by another man and drake said the rhymes word for word. he is a fraud. the article says claiming , it wasn’t no claiming it was whole real records, you drake fans be trying to cover up stuff like this didn’t happen, if you don’t believe goggle these tracks it was hole 16 bar vs and hooks with the exact cadences and everything its actually sad.
Thank you DJ Drama for exposing this fake ghost written Milli Vanilli fraudulent motherfucker…
If you like Drake and his garbage music, hang yourself and end your life. Jump off a building and die.
Let’s make sure we send you to the caves first and treat you like the filthy dirty piece of shit animal that you really are!
Hip-Hop is dead. Go back to Africa now, dirty n!ggers.
Please tell me why your on this site isn’t there a skin head site you can go to. It’s like moving to Compton and talking shit
How brave of you. Now go bang your sister.
Two trash rappers beefed last year. The light skinned one with mainstream appeal won. Meek would lose a rap battle to Master P. That’s how garbage meek is.
Dunno wat frens is wastin his time tryn to explain,they ve all got dat “hate tinted glasses” on, show me a rapper who isnt hated on n I will take these clowns seriously.
True, hard to find a great with no negative tag
How in the fuck did race get brought into this? Both ya’ll STUPID AS FUCK!
It’s funny how many dudes get in their feelings about Drake, lol. Dude is a pop star that raps. He found his niche and struck while the iron was hot. He’s good in his lane that he got in. Get off dude dick. His 15 minutes will be up, and you’ll be onto the next one in a couple of years or so. Mofos get emotional about the shit like they were fucking the same bitches as him back in the day or some shit. Shit’s lame.
Please look up the definition of irony when you’re done getting all up in your feelings and emotional over Drake.
Sounds like a snitch to me.