List of Drake feuds

Drake is a Canadian recording artist, rapper, songwriter, and actor. He rose to prominence as a rapper, by releasing several mixtapes like with the help of his old friends Room for Improvement before signing to Lil Wayne's Young Money Entertainment in June 2009. Drake's debut EP, So Far Gone (2009), spawned the hit single "Best I Ever Had" and the moderate hit "Successful". His first studio album, Thank Me Later (2010), debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 and generated notable singles, "Over" and "Find Your Love". It was certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). His second album, Take Care (2011), is his most successful to date, topping charts in the United States and Canada and producing multiple hit singles, including "Headlines", "Take Care", "Make Me Proud", and "The Motto", the last of which is also credited for popularizing the widely used acronym YOLO. In promotion of Take Care. His third studio album Nothing Was the Same was released on September 24, 2013. It has so far been supported by the singles "Started from the Bottom" and "Hold On, We're Going Home". Drake has sold over 5 million albums worldwide.

Pusha T

The first artist to publicly diss Drake on a song was Pusha T. He remixed Drake's "Dream Money Can Buy" and released a single called "Exodus 23:1" on Kanye West's GOOD Music label. Lil Wayne first responded to the Pusha T in a diss track titled "Ghoulish" where he raps "[...] Pusha T and anybody that love him/ His head up his [...]/ I'ma have to head-butt him, gut him" and tweeting to him. Drake then responded to the attack by Pusha T by saying "He didn't understand why Pusha dissed him. He said he always loved his music." Then at his live at his Club Paradise show in Washington, D.C. by saying "If you was doing 16s when I was 16 and your [...] still flopped and you switched teams, don't talk to me my [...]." Pusha T has stated that he has failed to respond to Lil Wayne's diss because he felt it was not good enough to respond to. The beef between Drake and Pusha T has not been squashed.

Common

During the Take Care era, Drake had numerous attacks from other rappers. XXL Magazine believes the roots of his rift with Common extend back to the summer of 2011 when Drake was first spotted out with the latter's ex-girlfriend, Serena Williams. Extensive gossip spread on the internet throughout the month of August along with photos that pointed at a possible relationship between Drake and Williams. Sites claimed that The Two went on vacation together and there was even a tweet from Drake to Serena that said "‘I Can’t Wait To Put It On You And Make You Sweat… during our match this weekend." Common made a song titled "Sweet" on his albumb "The Dreamer/The Believer" featuring lines which many believed to be aimed at Drake:

"Yeah, man, Y’all niggas man, you soft muthafuckas/Yeah my man, muthafucka/Then come around my crib/You know where I’m from/Some hoe [...] niggas/Singing all around me man, la la la/You ain't muthafucking Frank Sinatra/Uh, lil' [...]/Yeah, this the raw right here/This the raw right here [...]/Sweet muthafucka/Sweet [...] [...] muthafucka"

Although it was not specified, Drake took offense (as the song had lyrics critical of rappers who sing on their tracks) and released "Stay Schemin'", a song with Rick Ross and French Montana, with subliminal attacks such as "Back when if a [...] reached it was for the weapon/ Nowadays niggas reach just to sell they record", which refers to Drake essentially saying that Common only dissed him to try and sell his album, which was to be released a month after the track.

Common also made a controversial remix to Rick Ross's song "Stay Schemin'" featuring French Montana and Drake from the mixtape Rich Forever. Common fans only had to wait two-and-a-half days for the Chicago lyricist to respond to Drake's diss:

“Don’t do it ’cause every song you make is really hoe music/I heard you say you wasn’t a [...] cause you sing, you a [...] cause you clean like a [...] that’s 18/ Can’t say my name but rap AbOUT a [...]’s wife/you so Black and White trying to live a [...]’s life/I’m taking too long with this amateur guy, you ain’t wettin’ nobody, [...], you Canada Dry.”

On February 13, 2012, Common commented on the feud by saying "It's over. But it was all in the art of hip hop. He said some things to me so I had to say some things back...I wouldn't say [he started it] but I know I heard something that I felt was directed to me so I addressed it. That's all. But you know, thank God we were able to move forward from it and all is good."

Chris Brown

Drake and Chris Brown were allegedly involved in a physical altercation on June 14, 2012, when Drake and his entourage allegedly threw glass bottles towards Chris Brown at a nightclub called WIP in the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. About eight people were injured during the brawl, including San Antonio Spurs star Tony Parker, who later said he nearly lost his left eye, and a tourist from Australia who suffered injuries to her face and head and received sixteen stitches for her head as a result. Drake was not arrested. Chris Brown tweeted personal information involving the situation but afterwards deleted the tweets and made a seemingly direct diss record to Drake a few weeks later. He also posted a picture of himself with a gashed chin on Instagram. Brown's attorney claimed Drake was the instigator. It is unclear why they clashed. Drake dated Rihanna (not long after the domestic violence case caused by her ex) in 2009. They have remained as romantic friends since then. The only song since Drake dated Rihanna released with both him and Chris in it was the Deuces Remix. An unreleased collaboration entitled "Yamaha Mama" was leaked online weeks earlier before the alleged altercation. The original version is from Soulja Boy's second studio album iSouljaBoyTellem (2008). Drake seemed to have instigated a fight with Chris Brown on Twitter. Brown indirectly replied back angrily. Meek Mill also has been allegedly involved in the feud. Any possible charges over the incident in the club were dropped. Chris Brown recently dissed Drake on the remix of Young Jeezy's song "R.I.P.", saying "R.I.P. to the V.I.P.", referencing Drake's first line in his song "I'm Ready for You", as well as their nightclub altercation; the line "And if you started from the bottom gon' and come out the closet" references Drake's hit "Started from the Bottom".

In an interview in April 2013, Drake said about Brown: "Stop preying on his insecurities. His insecurities are the fact that I make better music than him, that I'm more poppin' than him, and that at one point in life, the woman that he loves fell into my lap. I did what a real [...] would do and treated her with respect, so she not up there talking down on me....It shouldn't be about wanting to see me and him tear each other down; we have an issue and it's either gonna drag out or maybe in 10 years we'll laugh about it over drinks. Just let us solve that [...].........Let him put out the whatever project X or whatever that [...] he's working on. I'm gonna put out real [...] for the people [with my new album]. I feel for him too. Every interview he does, [he] talk about me. It is what it is. I'm focused on [my] album and on everything else I got going on. I'm not thinking about that man at all or that girl".
On July 16, 2014, Brown and Drake appeared together in a skit produced for the nationally televised ESPY Awards. The skit seemingly mocked their past feud as Drake ends up on an operating table ready surgery, the camera then reveals the surgeon to be Brown, with surgical tools, ready operate. Both men had rehearsed the skit together prior to the televised airing of the ESPY Awards; the live audience roared with laughter.

Ludacris

Ludacris dissed Drake, Big Sean, and Shawn Jay from Field Mob on his song "Bada Boom". Big Sean felt that he invented the "supa dupa flow". Ludacris mimicked the flow in his song "My Chick Bad". Drake also mimicked the flow on his song "Forever". Ludacris and Big Sean have put this behind them but Drake never said a word.

Kendrick Lamar

Kendrick Lamar named Drake and other various rappers in his song "Control". Drake did not take this too well and criticized him and the record. The lines that sparked controversy was "I'm usually homeboys with the same niggas I'm rhymin' wit but this is hip hop and them niggas should know what time it is and that goes for Jermaine Cole, Big KRIT, Wale, Pusha T, Meek Mill, A$AP Rocky, Drake, Big Sean, Jay Electron', Tyler, Mac Miller. I got love for you all but I'm tryna [...] you niggas. Tryna make sure your core fans never heard of you niggas" .Drake's response was "I know good and well that Kendrick's not murdering me, at all, in any platform. So when that day presents itself, I guess we can revisit the topic." Kendrick later again dissed Drake in Jay Rock's song "Pay For It" stating "Been dissecting your motormouth til I break down the engine, This ain't no warning shot, this is relevant henchman, see my opponent then, cease your existence, Ending our friendship, I'd rather die alone".

Jay-Z

On his 2010 album Thank Me Later, both do a song "Light Up". In 2011, Drake subliminal disses Jay-Z & Kanye West on DJ Khaled's I'm On One saying "I'm just feeling like the throne is for the taking... watch me take it." Again, he subliminal disses G.O.O.D. Music, Jay-Z & Kanye West on "Club Paradise", "Money Dreams Can Buy", "Headlines", "Over My Dead Body" & "The Ride" fomer three from his Take Care. Kanye West subliminal disses him "Otis" saying "Niggas talking real reckless; stuntmen/I adopted these niggas, Phillip Drummond them/Now I'm about to make them tuck their whole summer in/They say I'm crazy, but I'm about to go dumb again/They ain't seen me cause I pulled up in my other Benz/Last week I was in my other other Benz." On Lil Wayne's Tha Carter IV, both take turn dissing The Throne (Jay-Z & Kanye West) with Drake sayning "Please pardon my brother/He's just angry at you niggas who don't have your heart in your rap [...]/And got too [...] comfy, cause we still [...] hungry" & Wayne saying "Talkin’ ‘bout baby money? I gotcha baby money. Kidnap your [...], get that, How much you love your lady? money." Then again in 2012, he subliminal disses G.O.O.D. Music on Meek Mill's "Amen" saying in his verse "Talking bout these other rappers getting old is even getting old/Worry about your followers, you need to get your dollars up/Me and Meek, young niggas popping like our collars up/And good ain't good enough, and your hood ain't hood enough." Also on French Monatana's "Pop That" he subliminal disses Pusha T & Jay-Z again saying "We don't dress alike, we don't rap alike/I shine different, I rhyme different/Only thing you got is some years on me/Man [...] you and your time difference." then after this song beef quiet down as both worked on his Nothing Was The Same “Pound Cake/Paris Morton Music” in 2013. In 2014, feud between Jay Z and Drake is without a doubt Drizzy’s Rolling Stone feature in which he comments on Hov’s love for fine art. ”It’s like Hov can’t drop bars these days without at least four art references!” says Drizzy. “I would love to collect at some point, but I think the whole rap/art world thing is getting kind of corny.” Jay Z responded on Jay Electronica’s remix of “We Made It” rapping, “Sorry, Mr. (or Mrs.) Drizzy, for so much art talk/Silly me rappin’ ’bout [...] that I really bought.” Drake responded back with a quick jab on “Draft Day,” rapping, “just hits, no misses, that’s for the married folk.” Again Jay disses Drake on DJ Khaled's "They Don't Love You No More" calling him as “soft as a lacrosse team.”

DMX

DMX condemned Drake for using deceased Aaliyah's vocals from one of her unheard songs. He used the words "Piece of sh#t" to describe him and claimed him as "disrespectful". DMX has never backtracked his opinion ever since.

Tyga

In a interview, Tyga expressed his real feelings towards his labelmate Drake saying he "Didn't Like Drake" and how he was just fake to him. A fight broke out in a viral video between Drake and Tygas crew after they allegedly jumped Drakes DJ. Later on Tyga dropped an alleged diss to Drake called "Make it Work". Drake has yet to respond.

See also

• Hip hop rivalry