Drake and Kanye re-accepted each other's friend request last night. It was a moment, despite all the jokes Twitter could come up with, that was pretty big deal in many regards as two of rap's biggest names of the post-Biggie and Pac era united on stage at a packed house at Drake's OVO Fest. What many may have been unaware of was the notion that Aubrey and Kanye have been involved in perhaps the most passive-aggressive rap feud since Jay Z and Mase nearly 15 years earlier.
Yeah, we know, it shocked the hell out of a lot of people. To help bring everyone up to speed, we've compiled a list of various moments from the two during their not-so-friendly days. And if we've forgotten anything, it's not our fault. It was a lot easier to pick up on disrespect when names were mentioned!
"Best I Ever Had" Video (July 2009)
Kanye West directed Drake's first big video and it totally backfired. Yeezy's love of chesticles derailed Drake's momentum as people trashed the video and women's rights groups panned its misogyny. Drake ended up with a mess that he was left alone to apologize for.
Drake And Amber (September 2010)
Drake, the rebound king and lover of other men's women, invited Amber Rose into Marvin's Room and was seen out and about with her. Immediately, the rumors surfaced that Drizzy was giving her the biz. This is what many people see as the initial rift. So when Kanye rapped "And the whole industry want to f*ck your old chick/ Only nigga I got respect for is Wiz" it was seen as a shot at Drake.
Kanye vs. 40 and Boi1da (October 2010)
40 once said in passing that Kanye cursed him out for using his drums, then Drake's other producer sent out this tweet: "Lol @ Kanye West talking bout stealing swag, when hes made a career of sampling records SMDH #TheAudacity"
Boi1da later tried to wish it all away but the rifts between camps were already showing.
"Ghetto University" (December 2010)
The original "All Of The Lights" was a song called "Ghetto University" and it was to feature Drake. Drake, though, got gutted from the track. You'd think with a million guests, Kanye would want to fit him in but it wasn't to be. Drake, though, was diplomatic about it.
"Kanye's creative process is ever-changing," Drake said, adding that he doesn't know why he was removed. "We make music differently. I make what comes to me and I hate changing it, whereas 'Ye will change something 30 or 40 times to get it perfect. To each their own, and the change was to put all those people on it, and I wasn't one of them. That's completely OK."
Biting The Throne (January 2011)
Before Jay and Kanye started working on their joint album, Wayne and Drake had been teasing putting one out. So when the Throne album started making media rounds, Drake had something to say.
We still got to do that album. I heard two other guys are coming out with an album together, too. There’s two other rappers are coming out with an album together. I don’t know where they got that idea but… I caught wind of it through the grapevine that there’s some other album with two guys rapping on it.
DJ Khaled's "I'm On One" (May 2011)
On "I'm On One" Drake rapped "I'm just feelin' like The Throne is for the takin'/ Watch me take it"...we're on to you, buddy.
The Throne's "Otis" (July 2011)
There's a belief that Yeezy's lines were for Drake: "I adopted these n---as/ Philip Drummond them/ Now, I'm about to make them tuck they whole summer in"
Lil Wayne's "It's Good" (September 2011)
When Wayne started aiming his salvos at Jay and said he'd kidnap Beyonce, Drake set the stage by throwing a chair into the passive aggressive fracas: "Mind in one place heart in another/ Please pardon my brother, he’s just angry at you n*ggas/ Who dont have your heart in your rap shit and got too fuckin comfy/ Cause we still f*ckin hungry, Young Money, got the munchies."
OVO Fest (August 2013)
Things seem to be fine, now as the two MCs became besties again. If you think the whole "feud" thing was made up, just check Drake's pose. He's standing like Jay and Nas did when they got over their beef - clearly alluding to the fact that this is also the end of a feud.
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I did not know this was a thing. And i care about it as much as i did before i knew.
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Lol @ at that “Cause we still f*ckin hungry, Young Money, got the munchies.” Line
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Drake and Ye had beef and U.O.E.N… fuck it.
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U.O.E. CARE
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It’s mostly because they’re each other only threat.
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Thought it was Fab that Ye was going at about Amber?
Because I found out last night that that was a thing.
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weren’t there rumors she was pregnant with a little Loso?
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I’m thankful everyday “The Best I Ever Had” video introduced Rosa Acosta to the world.
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nah…her stretching videos inteoduced her to the world.
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With the help of Niketalk.
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Can someone recap the Ma$e and Jay Z beef for me..?
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that shit is lightweight compared to rocafella vs terrorsquad
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Imaginary Player is about Ma$e. I’m No Killa by Ma$e is a Jay-Z diss. But Ma$e said the beef was over a chick he put in a Harlem World skit named Arion.
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Mase thought Jay was biting his style. Jay had a slick line about him. Mase had the “All I hear is platinum that platinum this but ain’t nobody got platinum hits” line directed at Jay who at the time was still bubbling but hadn’t blew. Jay made a diss track but never released it. Shit fizzled out. The End.
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jayz also jabbed him on “ride or die” with the hook “how many yall wanna ride 2nite” i forgot what album.
but the line goes, “i probably made more money off your album then you, look at your own videos you’ll always be #2″
refrencing the ghost writing jay did for diddy, on mase’s album, and puff probably paid jayz more for ghost writing his verses more than mase got paid on his whole album. and in “cant nobody hold me down” mase video i think puff and mase are wearing leather jerseys puff #1 mase #2
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BREAKING NEWS: scheduled duet album about to come out this year fourth quarter!!!!!!
“best of both girls”
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Yooooooooo hahahaha +1
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LMFAO!!!!!!! Bahahahahahaha
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Lamest beef ever.
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Drakes cooler when he doesnt do interviews.. Funny I been bumpin “All Me” since it came out but just seeing him talk is like “yo stfu nigga”.
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Man the break down of this just made them look like actual highschool girls. Even in a time where no one calls names anymore this would have been better served behind the scenes.
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“Take that D like the champions that you are” is still funny from that Best I Ever Had video
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That video was based off of high school girls. That line was funny tho.
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Disappointing. Their cat fight would have been legendary
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ECW’s influence can even be found in church dinner fights.
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HULK SMASH!
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Holy shit, home girl just caught that flying chair like a champ.
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^lmao. i had to watch it again to see her catch the chair
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Please someone give me a link to the full video of this
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I didn’t even know this was a thing until last night.
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Women’s rights group had a problem with that video? Psssh. Image if they had stumbled on “B.E.T Uncut”. “Best I Ever had” is PC compared to that.
But anyway,
I never knew they had problems “Like that” but, you can somewhat sense it back then. But, since this is a hot topic it begs a good question now:
Lyrically, Drake vs Kanye, who do y’all got? I think that may actually be a hard one like the Jay vs Em debate for this era. None really out raps the other at this current time so, it seems debatable.
My pick would be Kanye tho just based of Longevity
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I was looking back at old Drake stuff and came by this
“richposlim
never liked tha dude he can spit i wont deny his skill but ima nigga with unpaid bills a baby on the way and the police harrass me daily fa trying ta smoke my lil weed drake dont speak ta me i dont wanna fuck every girl in the world i wanna rob they asses….no chris brown either niggas can get it too fuck the world word ta pac”
lmao
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Well, Drake would have no career without Ye, so if they did keep beefing, Ye would still win by default.
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The full video beef length found on here [EachReferral.com]
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[EachReferral.com]
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Left out Drake on “Amen” Got at Ye and probably Pusha for good measure
His line: “Your G.O.O.D. ain’t good enough / Ya Hood ain’t hood enough”