Drake–Kanye West feud

The conflict has unfolded over several years and has involved public statements, social media exchanges, and musical releases.

Drake ended the song by denying the ghostwriting allegations brought up by Meek Mill in their 2015 rap beef, and name dropping the wife of Pusha T.[11] Four days after the release of "Duppy Freestyle", Pusha T released "The Story of Adidon" over the instrumental to Jay-Z's "The Story of O.J.

[18] The following day his then-wife Kim Kardashian defended West and told Drake to stop threatening her family.

[19] On August 23, 2021, Drake reignited their feud by dissing West on the Trippie Redd song "Betrayal".

This was surpassed by Drake's Certified Lover Boy that released on 3 September 2021 and sold 613,000 units in its first week as well as replacing Donda as No.

[24] On November 8th, West uploaded a video to his Instagram of him standing next to former Rap-A-Lot Records co-founder J Prince, reading a written apology to Drake in hopes for the two to put the beef aside for a benefit concert for incarcerated reformed gangster Larry Hoover, during West's ongoing effort and call for his release.

[26] The Free Larry Hoover Benefit Concert was announced to take place on December 9th, and was held at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

On the song, Drake raps "linking with the opps, bitch, I did that shit for J Prince/Bitch, I did it for the mob ties", referencing back to the Free Larry Hoover Benefit Concert.

[27] Enough already I done gave this man his flowers multiple times Let's really see who are real ops are in this music Imagine all the rappers on the game same side and everyone cleaning up each others contracts It's kingdom time Love Drake #lovespeech On April 7, 2023, Drake released "Search and Rescue" where Drake used an excerpt of a conversation between West's ex-wife Kim Kardashian and her mother Kris Jenner about Kim's divorce from West: "I didn't come this far, just to come this far and not be happy", Kardashian told her mother in a clip from an episode of their reality show Keeping Up with the Kardashians.

[30] On April 19, 2024, West previewed a remix of "Like That", which took aim at Drake and J. Cole, amidst the former's ongoing feud with Kendrick Lamar.