As Pusha T’s fans and peers alike continue to sift through the coke-caked bars on his newly released, Kanye West-produced album DAYTONA, there’s one particular song that has listeners raising an eyebrow — or two.
On the album’s closing cut, “Infrared,” Pusha decided to pick at the scab covering the old wound that is his beef with Birdman and also dug up Drake’s ghostwriting controversy.
“The game’s fucked up/ Niggas’ beats is banging nigga, ya hooks did it/ The lyric pennin’ equal to Trump’s winnin’/ The bigger question is how the Russians did it/ It was written like Nas/ But it came from Quentin.”
The “Quentin” he speaks of is, of course, Quentin Miller, the then-unknown rapper who was discovered to have been creating reference tracks for Drake after Meek Mill popped the lid on the secret.
Pusha T and Drake’s beef has been bubbling on the subliminal surface for some time now and with Drake’s Scorpion album expected in June, it appears likely the beef will continue to grow.
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Continuing his subtle shade, Push raps midway through the song: “Oh now it’s OK to kill Baby/ Niggas looked at me crazy like I really killed a baby,” a direct reference to the heat and amount of interviews he had to conduct on the subject.
Back in 2012, the GOOD Music president set off a preemptive strike by dissing both Birdman and Lil Wayne via a Ludacris guest appearance. In 2015, on his solo record titled “Untouchable,” he once again took a swipe at Birdman and more or less at Wayne.
He doubled down on the diss in a Genius annotation as he wrote, “I’m aiming at the moguls. Y’all niggas aiming at the locals. ‘And rap niggas broke like them.’ Them rap niggas that are broke like the locals, yeah, they mere hopefuls. And they’re still wishing on a star, they the last ones to find out that Baby owns the cars that they’re driving.
“It’s all coming to fruition. It’s on TMZ,” he continued, citing the lawsuit that really brought Tha Carter V legal situation to life.
Later on in the rhyme, King Push co-signed Rick Ross’s 2017 Birdman onslaught brought forth by the song “Idols Become Rivals.”
“Salute Ross ’cause the message was pure/ He see what I see when you see Wayne on tour/ Flash without the fire/ Another multi-platinum rapper trapped and can’t retire/ Niggas get exposed, I see the cracks and I’m the liar?”
In an adjacent interview, Rozay explained why he was going at Birdman’s throat.
“I just felt it wasn’t right, you know what I’m saying?” Ross said, pointing out Wayne’s inability to release music. “Khaled is a great dude … If you burn [Khaled and Lil Wayne], I already know how you feel about me, and I just don’t respect it. I just felt like it was time for somebody to let homie know that ain’t gangsta, and you know, you won’t be respected no longer. I won’t let nobody respect you around me.”
Meanwhile, during a May 2018 interview with Beats and Ebro Darden, Birdman assured listeners his beef his Lil Wayne had come to a conclusion.
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Get em’ Push! Celebrate the man who just put out an album with no trap records. Unlike Drake, Pusha proves that you can have street content lyrically, but the music doesn’t need to be utter boo-boo cookie, cutter, repetitive poppy-trap. All trap artists on trap beats sound the same; even Drake.
but he needs to keep these peoples names in his mouth or his album would go under the radar.
Being the better half of a classic duo, and having your album produced by one of the Kardashians goes a long way. I guarantee it would still be talked about without the diss.
Dumb. Never thought clipse or pusha was anything more than a trendy flavor of the month artist. Lil Wayne’s career vs yours… don’t make me laugh
Yeah but Lil Wayne can’t release his album when he wants and his bars are generally super trash. If not for both Jay Z and Eminem falling back in the mid 2000s nobody would have cared about Wayne. Need evidence on who is better you just have to listen to the diss song he sent at pusha. “Fuck pusha t and everybody that love him, his head up his ass so I’mma have to headbutt him”… that was horrible and it was the best line on the song. He’s a clown, his “daddy” is a clown, they can just go off somewhere and kiss all day because hip hop would have been a lot better had they not come around
Sometimes I wonder what level of r.etard you have to be to think that Wayne writes quality rhymes
True little Wayne don’t have to release another album whether he could or not and sorry pusha can’t fuck with him lyrically yes somewhat but hole body of work its NOT EVEN CLOSE
Sorry to all the weezy stans but My Name Is My Name is way better than any Wayne album. Same with Lord Willin but that’s Clipse. So yes Wayne has more plaques, released way more music but talent and quality of music goes to Push. Wayne didn’t even REALLY blow up til 50 and Game ruined each other’s careers (in terms of popularity, game still kills it with some of his releases). By the time Wayne was popular Clipse had already made their mark and crossed over with JT. Wayne didn’t compete with anyone except Kanye, and Kanye continued to release music and outsell him before, during and after the “Wayne era”.
I made the perfect album for 2018 (In that order)
1. Pusha T- Hard Piano (Intro) (Ft. Rick Ross)
2. A$AP Rocky- Kids Turned Out Fine
3. A$AP Rocky- A$AP Forever
4. A$AP Rocky- Fukk Sleep (Ft. FKA twigs)
5. A$AP Rocky- Praise the Lord
6. Sir Michael Rocks- Ooh Ooh Ooh (Prod. By Harry Fraud)
7. Project Pat- Scorpion Death Drop (Ft. Trae Tha Truth)
8. (Bonus) Trae Tha Truth- Wake Up (Ft. French Montana)
RIP Cash Money Records
Didnt Pusha and Drake already s*cked each others D*ck and made out?? Why is he taking a shot again??
You new n*ggas are a bunch of phhhaggoooot minded negros. So squashing beef is suck dyck? Gay n*ggas. You just show the homosexual in you. I hate you and hope you die …
Stick to country you phhhaagggggggot azz whote boy. I hate you people. You need to die
Yeah come for cash money but notice noone comes for kendrick or TDE! !! F pusha baby voice n krazy k!! King kendrick allday!
Drake duppy over infared
boo!
Duppy
Boo!
PussyT & LoopyYe pushin’ POOPY ‘Slavery’ tales ….. while DRAKE sellin’ out EVERY ARENA multiple nights in every city in the World! Nobody carin’ about these silly lines…. Don’t CARE Who is Co-Writing as LONG AS ITS A CLASSIC!
Wannabe “pusher” T doesn’t know shit about dope much less tons.. He’s from VA….
Pusha should of slapped West for giving him that weak ass beat to diss a fool like Drake on. Feel what he was trying to say. But ya man Yeezy needed to come with a harder beat so Pusha could really spit some rap shit at this Rnb rapper Drake. Shit is wack. Cant have no love song ass beat going at a top cat like that. Yeezy was lazy on that B.
And salute to you for taking this shit so seriously . You deserve a slow hand clap . Well done you , well done you !
I’ll fuck u up U fuckin crook