Drake kicked off his “Summer Sixteen” tour in Austin, Texas Wednesday night (July 20) with a dash of controversy.
As he performed the track the tour is named after, he updated one of the lyrics from “All you boys in the new Toronto wanna be me a little” to “All you boys doing fake ‘Controlla’s wanna be me a little.”
Watch the clip here.
The original line from the track was largely perceived as a sly shot at Tory Lanez, whose mixtape The New Toronto dropped last December. Last night’s revised lyric also applies to the rapper/singer seeing that he released a remix of Drake’s “Controlla” earlier this month.
The two Torontonians have taken several little jabs at one another in the past couple of years, though Lanez has previously characterized any back and forth with one of the world’s biggest stars as being beneficial to his brand.
In an interview on Hot 97 in June, Lanez said he’s coming for Drake, but not for any personal reasons. “I’m here to compete. I’m here to be No. 1. I’m here to be the greatest. Anybody that’s standing in the way, whether it’s him or anybody, it’s gotta go the way it’s gotta go. I’m not gonna stop until I get that.” He also added, “It’s just one of those situations where the only thing that’s ever gonna lie in between us is that we can’t share first place, and I’m the only guy that’s bold enough to come and really take that right now.”
Lanez will be vying for the #1 spot when his debut I Told You album comes out August 19. Drake’s VIEWS is currently in the top position of the Billboard 200 album chart for the tenth week.
There’s also been some speculation that Drake could be referencing Tyga’s “1 Of 1” single, which has a breezy dancehall-influenced sound similar to the Drake hit.
The vague shot could also (technically) apply to Kendrick Lamar, who shared a clip of himself singing along to the track while out for a drive in May, or Young Thug, who remixed the track for “No Wendy’s.”
Check out some more clips and photos from the concert below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtWYmMWpI70
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=46&v=oYnSefZnt4E
While somewhere Joe Buddens is feeling pissed off. LOL
Best comment of the day …ha ha ha!!
yall buggin joe budden ate this nigga up just like Pusha T did!
what do Budden,Pusha n Jay Elect who Ate Kendrick ve in common? They all aint shit lol Am3N!
Right. Jay has literally 10X the money and record sold compared to Drake… Check your lists…
he said jay ELECT you idiot. Learn how to fckin read. jay ELECT has negative money.
Dissing Drake is the best thing you can do at the moment to get free publicity.
Cat fight!
It’s definitely a diss to tyga and his track 1 for 1 who has the same vibe as comtrolla
Ain’t none of these wack catz should ever make a remix to a Drake song period ! This Lanez loser won’t sell 20k first week another one blah blah blah and Tyga hasn’t had a hit in how long all stuntin now like he in hot boyz weak wack make a hit . 6 God all day
6 God all gay…
6 Fraud got people writing ALL his songs and then he got the audacity to say something when somebody remake the song, he technically is remaking the songs when he takes the reference track to get the vibe and his bars so i dont know what drake fans be on but that is weak as a bunch of dudes going around with owls on there shirts and chains…seriously that weak!!!e
6 fraud is a pop star, he not a rapper!!!
Why not throw shots at Taylor Swift too? Soft ass Canadians.
Well, Kanye is handling that! USA! USA! USA! Trump 2016!
I wish Dtake was black enough to get pulled over by the police and shot for no reason…
If Jimmy can get shot…. Aubrey could be next… Drake in a fckin wheelchair would probably still sell a milli to these clowns
FUCK FAKE DRAKE! bitch made pop pussy got crushed by budden three times and is scared to respond but he will go after tory lanez, fucking coward! he won’t respond because he is not and never will be remotely close to the same caliber of MC as budden. of course not..he does not even write his own songs..hell he don’t even write his own diss records. bring on the lip sync videos from the battle dodging sweet sixteen tour. #DRAKEISFAKEDRAKEISWACK #THE 6FRAUD WITH VIEWS FROM A BITCH
Probably Tyga. Remixing somebody’s track doesn’t make it a “fake” version. But a song with same sample and vibe… Yes.