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Who’s Winning the 2024 Rap-Beef Showdown?
(And who got cooked?)
The Great Beef Barbecue of 2024 kicked off with Megan Thee Stallion hurling fiery bars directly at Nicki Minaj’s pink wig and her Cash Money classmate Drake on “Hiss” and it hasn’t slowed down since. And while he hasn’t publicly apologized for his last beef with Noname (though she’s said they’ve talked about the whole “nigga you don’t read” thing privately), nor for the very unnecessary transphobia in “Pi,” Cole believes removing “7 Minute Drill” from streaming services is enough to satiate his spirit. On “Push-Ups,” the Canuck basically says Lamar was an indentured servant under Top Dog for not only taking an alleged 50-50 earnings split while he was at the label, but hitting military-style push-ups anytime the label head demanded with “drop and give me 50.” It’s an admittedly clever turn of phrase on top of a dig at Big Steppers: “Your last one bricked, you really not on shit, they make excuses for you ’cause they hate to see me lit.” He also made a bunch of short-king jokes: “Pipsqueak pipe down you ain’t no big three / SZA got you wiped down / Travis got you wiped down / Savage got you wiped down” and “I’m at the top of the mountain so you tight now / Just to have a talk with yo ass I had to hike down.” But he also cast a few strays in the direction of the Weeknd, who has historically denied being a part of Drake’s factory of artists who only make songs for Drake; A$AP Rocky, who emptied the clip on Drake’s obsession with his partner, Rihanna, on We Still Don’t Trust You track “Show of Hands”; and … Rick Ross.
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