Be warned: this whole “Eminem is about to jump into the Joe Budden/Drake beef” buzz started with Hot 97 radio host Ebro telling a story about a conversation about a rumor that was, in the end, apparently just a joke.
Ebro’s declaration that he’d heard a rumor that Eminem was coming for Drake — and that Drake said he was ready for him in the unlikely event that he did — set off a firestorm online, growing to large enough proportions that Eminem’s manager doused some water on it.
He also retweeted a 2009 post from Drake’s Twitter archive.
Even Drake appeared to address it on his Instagram with an eye-roll emoji and a caption that read, “If they don’t have a story these days…”
Joe Budden, whose critique of VIEWS and subsequent diss tracks was the original catalyst to the story, didn’t buy into the hype either.
Still, the Internet was definitely interested in talking about the potential of an Eminem/Drake beef and, who knows, maybe that interest will materialize into something. Opinion online leaned heavily toward the idea that Drake should stay far away from anything resembling a callout for Eminem, which may be the inspiration he needs to want to prove people wrong.
Here are some of the best reactions we found floating around online.
Drake tryna slide out of that battle after Eminem says two words pic.twitter.com/n6fgYw4Oyj
— alexandra reid (@thealexreid) August 4, 2016
eminem in his prime would cancel anybodies career, he could prolly finish mj level artist if it would be in his mercy, but these days em has less fans and he is getting old to go on and on…he is most likely laugh at this drake beef and stay king in his castle…he showed enough
Please em, body this dude right now… smh…
also em killed drake on forever….i mean nothing personal, but that was different league…i believe Drake wants this beef ended without him releasing diss track, he don’t want no pressure from press, so hes gonna just ignore it and let it slide…drake fans don’t care if he will reply, different generation, they need love songs.
What kind of man takes the side of kangay kartrashin and other disrespectful Hoodrats that bash women. It’s a felony to record a personal conversation no matter who you are ! Editing the conversation to your convenience is worse.
if eminem was to do this i would do it on dj khaled track and ask wayne to do the chorus. also get nicki to do a guest verse just be like yo i beat you the way you came up.
Dj Khaled diss Eminem: every 5 seconds scream DJ KHALED!
Lmfao but true as fuck Justus sayin THERES A WHOLE MOVIE ON WHY YOU SHOULDN’T”T BATTLE EMINEM! I think right now today Eminem given preptime to write still couldn’t be beat in a battle. If it’s like, on records, live though, I don’t know that eminem has that still, or any of the older heads for that matter.
RAPGOD was not that long ago, he obviously still has it.
How did this go from being a rumor to something EVERYONE is talking about? I still know for 200% fact that Em won’t do this. My life is going well, but not that well, and trust that I could die happy if Em roasted Drake in a battle.