Hip Hop fans were already anticipating Drake taking shots at Kanye West on Certified Lover Boy after recently lighting up their feud again, but another person who ended up in the firing line was Swizz Beatz. Drizzy appears to take aim at the Ruff Ryders producer on the song “You Only Live Twice” featuring Lil Wayne and Rick Ross.
“Unthinkable when I think of the way these n-ggas been actin’,” he raps. “Yeah, I never did you nothin’ and you play like we family, huh?/Next thing, you wanna shoot me down, it can’t be love/Not sure where you was tryna send it, it can’t be up/That day you sounded like a bitch, you fancy, huh?”
The verse references Swizz Beatz’s wife Alicia Keys’ song “Un-thinkable (I’m Ready),” which Drake wrote and later remixed, as well as “Fancy,” a track Swizz wrote, produced and featured on for Drake’s Thank Me Later album. The “shoot me down” line also seems to bring up past comments from Swizz Beatz.
In June 2020, Swizz Beatz called Drake a “pussy” on Instagram Live after a Busta Rhymes and Drizzy song leaked online.
“That kid is a good kid as well,” he said at the time. “He’s not a bad kid, he’s a good kid. He started from different things, we made hit record together, it’s all love. I just wanna play music. Because my filter is burnt. Because at the end of the day, n-ggas is pussy for real. What’s up? Pop off. Let’s go.”
That same week, Swizz Beatz issued an apology for his comments and mentioned shooting a plane out of the sky, which is likely what Drake was referring to in his verse.
“Man, I want to address my actions on Zone Radio last night,” he began. “I was in the wrong space, I was in the wrong energy and I hate that my kids and other people got to see me on that side. I was a little nice, I was a little excited. I definitely spoke on some things that I definitely shouldn’t have spoke on. Although I may feel a certain way about a certain person — things like that — as a G, I’m man enough to say that I did that on the wrong platform and I wasn’t supposed to do that like that. I wouldn’t respect somebody else if they did that like that.”
Swizz Beatz added, “My whole energy was based off of something that got leaked that you couldn’t put out, no matter what the circumstances is. That’s a guy, that’s a little guy and we made a lot of great things together. It’s not personal. I got no personal things. If it was personal, we’d shoot your plane out the sky.”
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OVO’s Head of Security Nessel “Chubbs” Beezer later took to his Instagram Stories to reject his apology.
“@therealswizz We Don’t Need No Apology,” he wrote. “Its Clear You’d Don’t Like Us So Act That Same When You See Us. Pussy.”
Check out reactions to Drake’s lyrics below.
Drake is a pussy. Its an unequivocal fact. He is the polar opposite of 2Pac. One took 5 bullets and still managed to walk around and the other cries because a stripper wouldn’t call him back.
What stripper?
What does it matter which stripper. The point is that he’s a little crybaby who wants to represent the same culture as someone who took 5 bullets and was still standing. See the issue here?
What culture? Hiphop to you equals gangsta/violent shit? I hate when people talk about culture vulture and appropriation BS, but that’s exactly what you are! Don’t speak on the culture that you know nothing about!
Why do you assume I know nothing about the culture? And to answer your question no hiphop is lot more than gangsta rap. It is as much Rakim as it is Pac, as much Tribe as it is Mobb Deep. And thats just the music. At the end of the day, this sissy sing songy rap cannibalized all the diversity and now you have phonies and crybabies getting emotional on trap beats and the worst part is they can’t even flow. They do this stop and go bs that sounds disjointed as hell.
LMAO…need some references buddy. If they cant be provided, keep the bullshit
Yet they are one in the same. Both just entertainers.
I dont even like swizz but drake is a cornball. Probably one of the biggest cornballs in rap today.
This song is straight dumpster juice.
Drake is still a pussy.
That supposed-to-be slick subliminal shit never impressed me. Being direct and saying a man’s name in a dis while still being skillful always did.
Subliminal disses are cowardice.
Swizz aint say one lie. Proof, who talks subliminal smack about somebody after they apologized and a lot of time has passed? A pussy, thats who.
U call that bullshit an apology?? Lol ok buddy.
Fun fact: Nas dropped Ether on Dec 4 2001 and was still dissing camel mouf in 03…
So. Jay went back ones more on Blueprint 2 after Ether sounding weak talking about “they tryna help him cheat”. Luckily for the culture Scarface stepped up and put both of them on the fix album. Rest is history.
LMAO!!! and Nas originally dissed him on that shit tw0. History indeed.
I dont listen to drake but let’s face it…dude has alot of haters. Glad he brought Swizz back up cause that was on some jealousy ho shit
Its bc Drake is a pussy who turned hiphop into some effeminate sing songy bs for this weird ass generation.
I think Drake is an oxymoron. He’s able to produce some cool music but be a cornball and lame at the same time. CLB like most his albums is solid and consistent.
Some ppl are just able to figure it out and make the best of their situation. He’s literally raps version of Kevin Hart.
Theyre both trash and only around bc people have lost their collective minds. Kevin hart is not funny hes just loud and Drake isn’t an mc, just a human tampon.
Drake lost me when he pulled out the blackberry for a freestyle on the radio…maybe it’s petty, but when he dropped I took hiphop very seriously and that was a killer for me. Now years later hiphop has shit on itself over and over again and lost my respect. So y’all can have this cornball…Just think, back in ’95 Bone thugs(E.1999/Eternal) were considered soft. Nowadays Drake is basically the king of hiphop…yup I am old and very salty
Nah. He isn’t considered the king of shit. Everyone considers him bubblegum pop shit. No real motherfuckers call his shit rap or hip hop.
Except Benny,
Wu Tang, Conway, Gibbs, Hov, Snoop, Jadakiss Redman etc, have spoken on record that they Respect his craft and listen to him. Drake originally came up on little brother and slum village.
Thanks for your permission, my lord. We will take Drake as punishment for going against your will. We betrayed all the “real mfs”. Drake doesn’t sell any albums, that’s why “everyone considers him bubblegum pop s#!t”.
Thats a weak diss. Good job it was all explained. Swizz was right lol
Drake is a straight bitch with his little subliminal garbage for teenie boppers to hear. LOL. He didn’t “write” shit for anyone. Ever. LOL
It’s crazy- the drake hate is real. Y’all goin out of your way to hate him.
No he’s just trash and you’re in denial. It’s pretty simple
Turn Cassidy on em