Drake Actually Cooked

hey everyone Anthony fantano here

internet's busiest music nerd hope

you're doing well it's drama Monday

through Friday into the weekend the

drama has been non-stop as you guys know

since things in mainstream hip hop have

been heating up ever since Metro boomman

and future dropped their recent album we

don't trust you which had that Kendrick

Screw The Big Three it's just big me

verse on it that has caused everyone to

go as absolutely ballistic fans and

haters alike there was a jcole response

and then J.Cole apologized for it and

now it's taken down off streaming

there's way more context I could go over

right now in terms of how we got to this

point Rick Ross dropped a trash disc but

what's most important right now in this

video what we're going to go over

because the dust on all of this has not

settled yet is that Drake has come out

with his own Dis Track his own response

to all of this all the attack it's been

thrown out there unofficially by his

team it's not on streaming services

right now but uh people are hearing it

on YouTube hearing it on Twitter uh fans

are calling it push-ups Dro and give me

50 which is understandable given the

refrains and going into this disc into

this response there's three things I

want to know does it sound good is it

solid as a song are the bars that Drake

is lacing into this track do they work

do they go at his attackers here

effectively does he take them down a peg

or two and what he's saying the content

the substance of his lines is it

actually like reality or is it him just

kind of like living in his own head and

bullshitting us the words he's saying do

they hold up to scrutiny the first thing

I want to get out of the way because

maybe it's the quickest thing to address

is uh the sound of the song the quality

of the track overall just by you know

usual Drake songwriting standards I

think it's good I think it's solid uh

Drake's delivery it sounds engaged he

sounds awake clearly this situation has

lit a fire under his ass and he is just

uh completely locked in good beat Choice

as well definitely better than the beat

that was on 7 minute fraking drill I

mean it's not exactly the most

revolutionary trap beat you're ever

going to hear but it's got kind of a

mean Eerie overtone to it and there's

nothing about it that's too crazy or

attention grabbing that's going to draw

your ears away from what Drake is saying

structurally I think it's pretty good

too he breaks up everything he says

pretty well with this drop and give me

50 refrain though I will say to make an

obvious comparison here is this song as

catchy uh as let's say back to back no

not necessarily but that's not as

important as long as the content of

Drake's bars leaves a searing burn in

their aftermath okay let's start digging

into this uh Drake coming in hot on the

first few bars uh spitting some truth in

my opinion I could never be nobody's

number one fan uh your first number one

I had to put in your hand you won't ever

take no chain off of us how the [ __ ] you

big stepping with a size seven men's on

which I mean pretty obvious attack there

like you're a little guy I'm bigger than

you you're a tiny man height and stature

attacks are not the most deadly that are

out there but uh it's cool that he kind

of tied it into the big stepper thing

okay the number one fan thing uh genius

and many fans allege is a shot at Future

uh saying that Drake is a fan of his

which could be true but the funny thing

about that line is that it applies

pretty widely across mainstream hipop a

feature from Drake or a collaboration

with Drake uh was the first number one

or the first major chart elevation uh

for a lot of artists who are popular in

rap music today so to me it does make

sense for Drake to kind of like you know

serve a lot of these guys with a

reminder that we've crossed over in the

past we have collaborated and it just so

happens that many of the most successful

or maybe the most successful moment in

your career uh was tied to me with that

being said though I wouldn't attribute

all of future for example success to

Drake especially considering like uh

future is one of the bigger mainstream

artist out there who who I would

actually say kind of has his own sound

and stylistic trajectory outside of the

Drake bubble I mean stylistically and

aesthetically Drake has proven to be a

pretty massive force in hipop over the

past 10 years in terms of just like

influencing just about Everybody's

Records everybody's sound but Future For

Better or For Worse because I haven't

really loved all of his discography

obviously he's somebody who is very

provably on his own path and isn't

necessarily like you know taking notes

from Drake if we were actually to do a

big three of like you know the main

sounds or Pathways Lanes in mainstream

hip hop that we hear today and it wasn't

going to be Drake Kendrick Cole uh

should be something more like Drake

Kendrick future or Travis Scott someone

who's going to come in and represent

like that you know different drug out

kind of psychedelic trap wing of the

genre and there are numerous points in

Drake's career where where he absolutely

has taken a stylistic notes from future

and while Drake does make a point here I

wouldn't necessarily argue that making

another artist sound more marketable is

like a flex per se the image he portrays

in this other bar a bit f further down

though is very funny know my picture on

the wall when yall cook up I feel like

Drake is making a valid point here

because um that there is a certain sort

of obsession that is inadvertently being

portrayed by everybody going at him

right now in the fashion that they are

because even if Metro future and whoever

else comes out of the woodwork even if

they are making valid points about Drake

and the quality of his music and and so

on and so forth the fact that all of you

you are going at him all at once in the

way that you are and that it's so

orchestrated it is giving Obsession and

look I know Drake can be conceited I I

know he can be egotistical I know he can

be a dick that's not my personal

experience as you know that guy in the

past has sent me cookie recipes he's

only ever been nice to me but at the end

of the day like even with all of his

Subs all of his uh weird Behavior here

and there he's just a guy like does

dissing him or taking him down a peg

really necessitate uh clicking up and uh

being like yeah you're going you're

going to do this and then I'm going to

put out this other song yeah it's just a

little schoolyard it it really is in

this next couple of bars Drake throws

out the drop and give me 50 thing but

he's he's really kind of going at um the

numbers behind the scenes in the

contracts of either Kendrick or maybe

even some of the other artists who are

attacking him here saying that they're

allegedly giving up 50% of their profits

of their uh whatever in the money that

they're making off of their records off

of their songs to their labels to the

music industry which honestly is kind of

a harder pill to swallow than you know

any numbers comparison we could be doing

here cuz if you're losing that sort of

money to your label in the process of

making music and no matter what the

numbers you're doing are you're just

kind of like stuck on a treadmill a few

bars later he's even challenging for a

contract reveal and the way you do in

splits [ __ ] your pants might rip the

these next couple of bars though I'm not

sure if I Vibe with too much it kind of

seems like a pot calling the kettle

black kind of situation with Drake

mocking Kendrick for doing verses for uh

Taylor Swift and Maroon 5 wait a second

wait a second wait a second like if

there's any Dude any dude in hip-hop who

is like desperately looking for a pop

crossover and looking for ways to stay

in the hip-hop Lane

stylistically but aesthetically appeal

to listeners of pop and pop audiences it

is you on top of that weren't you also

like lip syncing to bad blood in the

workout like was that not a crossover

was that not promo I mean at least in

the case of Kendrick he has the

versatility and the ability to do a

little bit of a pop appearance you know

do an appearance on a record where he

appeals to a larger more massive

audience but when he goes back into

album mode he's back in kind of pure

Kendrick territory

he's going for that Artistry he's

hitting us with that depth meanwhile

much of what Drake is giving us

regardless of if it's a feature or if

it's an album uh it's it's surface level

mode it's in Middle brow mode so to me

this set of bars is just kind of silly

and hypocritical calling him a pipsqueak

again and then uh basically saying there

are many other artists in the music

industry not just Drake uh that have

Kendrick totally washed artists like 21

Savage Travis artist on his own label

like siza I think this bit of of word

play to follow is pretty clever as well

as many know uh TDE is just a sub of

Interscope Records Interscope Kendrick's

inos scope and then from here Drake

addresses the fact that he's uh being

attacked so widely by everybody and

actually gives a really solid retort uh

to the prince outlived Mike Jack uh line

with him uh kind of starting here big

difference between Mike then Mike now

and then what's a prince to a King he's

a son although once again get more love

in the city that you from which I think

is

also kind of fudging the numbers a bit

that's kind of a difficult thing to

quantify especially when you're talking

about artists who are at this huge point

of success and let's not also forget uh

that that footage of Drake getting booed

at uh Camp fogna so I mean it's not like

Drake is just kind of universally

beloved here Drake kind of switches

sites changes gears here to follow and

while I don't think uh this bar here is

necessarily a super cutting in terms of

word player Drake digging anything up uh

him kind of jumping to the side just to

say uh Metro shut your ass up and just

get on the drums it's kind of hilarious

it's just like dismissive in a way that

makes it feel like Drake sees him as

like not even worthy of dismantling it's

just like what are you doing this is

such a waste of time this is ridiculous

Drake seemingly goes at Abel the weekend

as well and his team uh saying a few

different things but I I think most

notably uh that he kind of represents

the six in the area that he's from in

Toronto better than he does and then

finishing things off in the first verse

he is focusing more on Metro on future

on Kendrick uh seeing these threats he's

he's throwing them off he's casting them

aside no chains are getting snatched I'm

going to have my own bodyguards too and

with the baby mom mentions he also kind

of throws out reminders that I know

things about you guys you know things

about me there are skeletons in your

closets as well then there's a second

verse because Drake has his work cut out

for him and more people to address Rick

Ross who as I said earlier jumped into

this whole thing and has his own trash

dis out there where he's just obsessing

over uh Drake's nose and uh calling him

white he pretty much casts Ross off in

the same way he does everyone else I've

given you hits and then Drake tries to

provide more context for what he thinks

about uh this whole beef to begin with

he does not care what Cole thinks about

how great Kendrick is Drake uh not

impressed does not care and he claims

that this uh stuff this tension this

beef didn't just come out of nowhere

it's been brewing up which if you've

been paying attention yes it very much

has but who started feeling some type of

way first over what other person is

unclear and the answers to that will

most likely vary depending on who you're

talking to I mean he finishes things off

with a valid remind remers that um

numbers wise these other guys are not

creeping up they're not catching up

Drake is still on top your numbers are

not my numbers your success is not my

success and you're giving 50% of your

[ __ ] away to the label and yeah that's

pretty much the track that's pretty much

the disc that's the response and I'll

say uh overall I liked it I think it's a

solid response I think it's respectable

I mean it's not a complete dismantling

of anybody that Drake was addressing

however when you consider what Kendrick

was saying Ling on like that I mean that

track wasn't even a complete dismantling

of Drake it was a shot it was an attack

a surface level one that had some good

word play and some solid bars in it some

good writing but like it wasn't a

complete takedown of Drake from top to

bottom so the level of detail and

aggression Drake showed here it just

kind of elevated things just a bit just

a touch he responded in kind and with a

little bit extra and also frankly did

Super well considering he had many many

people to fire back at in this one shot

I mean it's hard enough to make a diss

track against one single guy and Drake's

got to talk about four three five six

seven different dudes on a couple of

verses once again there were a few

instances in the bars here where I think

Drake you know is kind of just being a

legend in his own mind building himself

up a bit too much or being slightly

hypocritical but his delusions through

this track for the most part remained at

a minimum he had some witty replies he

stood on his own two feet and made

lemonade with the lemons he had been

given now moving on from here what are

we likely to see I mean considering how

much he mentions Kendrick literally by

name throughout this track uh we're most

likely going to see a reply from him uh

down the road very soon maybe

considering the anger and bitterness

Kendrick entered into this whole thing

to begin with and now he finally has a

drake response a drake reply he's likely

to go Full Throttle from here with him

meanwhile Metro I don't think he has any

reason at this point especially since

he's gotten this reply uh to stop going

at Drizzy right now but most likely how

that's going to play out into the future

as we've seen recently with ASAP Rocky

and the weekend he's probably going to

continue inflaming things just through

like proxies just dragging other artists

out of the woodwork to have them dis

Drake on his behalf which there's any

number of artists he can probably

put up to doing that at this point with

his production so I mean as of right now

I'm not sure if I see this uh ending uh

with another couple of tracks honestly

I've been going on too long though I

have to leave it there because most

likely this is not going to be the last

video I'm making on this topic there's

going to be more to say more responses

more everything and I will address it as

it comes out but uh again overall I

think the stake response it it's solid

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