By CFJCToday

Drake Gets Real About Feud

Oct 15, 2018 | 6:30 AM

Drake has broken his silence on his beef with Pusha-T and Kanye West. During the latest episode of LeBron James‘ HBO sports talk show, The Shop, Drizzy sat with James and his business partner, Maverick Carter, where he candidly spoke on the situation. He explained, “I ended up linking with ‘Ye and he sold me on this whole speech of like, I’m in a great place, I’m making money, I’m a father, and I wanna be Quincy Jones and help you, but in order to do that you gotta be transparent with me, and you gotta play me your music, and you gotta tell me when you’re dropping. I was in the studio. We all kinda felt a genuine vibe from it. I played him my music. And I told him when I was dropping.”

Drake went on to say that about 60 percent of Scorpion was done when Kanye played him the beat for “Lift Yourself,” and offered to give it to him. He continued, “I was hype. I started writing to it. And then he was like, ‘Yo, you gotta come to Wyoming.’ [Producer] 40 went to Wyoming early. He was like, ‘Man, I’m here a day early. Something’s off. This guy’s working on an album.’ And I was like, ‘For real?’ He just told me he wanted to give me beats. He said he wasn’t dropping until like October or November. It’s all good. Let’s just see what it’s about. So I went and ended up pretty much spending the majority of my time working on his music, just tryna cook up ideas for him. Just trying to lend a helping hand. I spent all my time pretty much working on his stuff. I left Wyoming and I was like, ‘We left with ‘Lift Yourself’ and a pat on the back.’ I’ll try and make the most of this and hopefully he sends some other things through.”

Drake said that when he went to Wyoming, he played “March 14th” for Kanye and showed him a picture of his son. He also revealed personal details about is relationship with his son’s mother. He then said, “I tell him I’m having trouble with my son’s mother. We had a conversation.”

Drake said that he later saw Kanye announce release dates for his album, in addition to albums for Pusha-T, ‘Ye and Kid Cudi‘s Kids See Ghosts, Nas and Teyana Taylor. Drake continued, “All around June 15, by the way. Then the next two days, I wake up to this text from him passive like, ‘Yo, I love you brother.’ ‘Lift Yourself’ comes out with him just talking nonsense. This guy’s trolling me? This was a manipulative I wanna break you thing. So I said alright. I’m gonna go back to distancing myself again. I know what this is. Then the first album drops and of course, there’s a diss song towards me that you produced that’s talking about writing. I was just there with you as friends helping you and now you’re dissing me. This is dark. It took me four days to really register what had happened.”

Drake then spoke on Pusha calling him a “deadbeat” on his “The Story Of Adidon” diss track, saying that he was most hurt by Pusha speaking on his friend and producer Noah “40” Shebib, who is battling multiple sclerosis. He said, “People love to say, like rap purists and people who just love confrontation, ‘Man, there’s no rules in this sh*t.’ But there are f**king rules in this sh*t. I knew something was gonna come up about my kid. They had to add the deadbeat thing to make it more appealing. The mom and dad thing, whatever you don’t even know my family. But I’ma tell you. Wishing death on my friend who has MS-I study rap battles for a living. When you mention defenseless people who are sick, in the hospital, that passed away, that really sent me to a place where I just believed then and believed now that there’s a price you have to pay for that. It’s over. Someone’s gonna punch you in the f**king face. The sh*t’s done. The event’s over. I wanted to do other things. I didn’t wanna further your reputation or your career by rapping back at you and having this exchange.”

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Drake said that he did a record in response to ‘Adidon,’ but decided not to release it because it was too personal, saying, “I did and I said terrible things. I got home and I just listened back to it and I was like, ‘Man, this is not something I ever wanna be remembered for. This is not even a place that I necessarily even wanna go.”

He also said, “By the way, hell of a chess move. The song, I thought it was trash. But the chess move was genius. Back against the wall. I either go all the way filthy or I fall back and I have this sort of chink in my armor for the rest of time to a rap purist, which is fine. I can live with that. I would much rather live with that than the things that I was about to, the research I did, the things that I was gonna say, and the places that I was gonna go-not only for him, but for the other guy too. And now, I feel pure. I’m good.”

The rapper added, “I took that energy and I put it into me. Not you, you don’t get that from me. I didn’t have ‘In My Feelings,’ I didn’t have ‘Nonstop,’ I didn’t have ‘8 Out of 10,’ I didn’t have ‘Mob Ties.’”

In other news, Drake and Chris Brown have squashed their beef. Drizzy brought out Brown during the first of six Los Angeles shows on his “Aubrey and the Three Migos Tour” on Friday (October 12th). The rapper surprised the crowd, saying, “I figured tonight in Staples Center with each and every one of y’all would be the perfect time to share this moment. I’d like to share the stage with this man and L.A. I hope you motherf**kin’ enjoy it.” He then added, “I appreciate that man for coming on this stage. I hope after this, I hope we can make some music together. It’s long overdue, we need to do some sh*t.” Breezy performed “Party” and Lil Dicky’s “Freaky Friday.” Drake also brought out Travis Scott and LeBron James for “Sicko Mode” during his L.A. show on Saturday (October 13th).