Drake addresses Meek Mill feud: 'No one told you that this was a bad idea?’
With this past summer’s most highly publicized rap beef now having died down, Toronto native Drake has finally addressed his famous feud with Philly’s own Meek Mill, as well as the ghostwriting accusations that kicked the whole thing off.
With this past summer's most highly publicized rap beef now having died down, Toronto native Drake has finally addressed his famous feud with Philly's own Meek Mill, as well as the ghostwriting accusations that kicked the whole thing off.
Drake recently sat down with The Fader for his first in-depth interview since Rolling Stone's February 2014 profile, telling the magazine that Mill's lack of a response after the release of diss track "Charged Up" was a little disappointing.
"This is a discussion about music, and no one's putting forth any music," he said. "You guys are gonna leave this for me to do? This is how you want to play it? You guys have high-ranking members watching over you. Nobody told you that this was a bad idea, to engage in this and not have something? You're gonna engage in a conversation about writing music, and delivering music, with me? And not have anything to put forth on the table?"
After Meek's non-response, Drake released a follow-up diss track entitled "Back 2 Back," which he assumed would end the feud, given how things had been going at that point.
"I was like, 'I'm gonna probably just finish this,' " he told The Fader. "And I know how I have to finish it. This has to literally become the song that people want to hear every single night, and it's gonna be tough to exist during this summer when everybody wants to hear [this] song that isn't necessarily in your favor."
Eventually, Mill released his attempt at a retaliation track with "Wanna Know," which generally was not seen in a favorable light by followers of the beef. Drake, at least, didn't seem to take it seriously:
Drake followed up Mill's diss with a meme-laden set at Toronto's OVO Fest targeted at the Philly rapper, which he says was designed to "remind people" of what the score was. Mill, for his part, basically said he'd give Drake a wedgie.
"Given the circumstances, it felt right to just remind people what it is that I do in case your opinions were wavering at any point," he said.
As far as Mill's accusation that Drake used a ghostwriter go, he doesn't appear worried.
"I need, sometimes, individuals to spark an idea that I can take off running," he told The Fader. "I don't mind that. And those recordings — they are what they are. And you can use your own judgment on what they mean to you."
With that, on Drake's side, anyway, the feud appears to be settled. Mill, however, recently posted several sneak peeks at upcoming tracks on Instagram, one of which appears to reference the beef with the line, "Couple them bodies get dropped and you n-----s'll tell/And I made an M in a week but they tellin' me I took a L."
That could be a reference to an August kickball game at the height of this summer's beef during which Drake told NBA star LeBron James that he hadn't "taken a loss all week."
For Mill's sake, however, let's hope not. Drake, after all, reportedly shelved a third diss track targeted at the Philly rapper, with sources telling Urban Islandz that the song could "end Meek for good."
"I don't know if it will ever be released, but I don't see him dropping that joint anytime soon, and it's very dope," the source reportedly said. "I can confidently say that it would end Meek for good. There would be no coming back if this track had gotten out."
However, with no reported plans to release that track, Drake's Fader interview shows the rapper focusing on the future.
"I know that it takes me to execute every single thing that I've done up until this point," he said. "And I'm not ashamed."