There has been absolutely no shortage of hip-hop drama this year. While we're currently cringing at Eminem and Machine Gun Kelly swatting it out in the trashiest feud of 2018, there remains some interesting fallout from the Pusha-T and Drake beef from early this summer. Kanye West was peripherally involved in that beef as Pusha-T's producer on Daytona, and Drake took shots at Ye in his own diss track, "Duppy Freestyle." In response, Pusha-T released "The Story of Adidon," in which he outed Drake's secret child, which was later confirmed on Scorpion.
Drake never responded with another diss track, but according to some rumours, he was sitting on a career-ending song that he refused to release. Fans have spent all summer speculating what Drake's career-ending diss track could have been, and the most popular theory involves an alleged affair between himself and Kim Kardashian.
Now, this is a batshit theory, but that hasn't stopped fans from digging everywhere for clues. According to the theory, Drake spent some time in Wyoming as Kanye was producing some of his new albums, during which he played Ye "March 14" that confirms the existence of his secret child. Fans speculate that it's through Kanye that Pusha-T learned about the child that he rapped about in his diss track.
This is where the rest of the clues come in. Some fans seem to believe that Kim might be the Kiki, who Drake mentions in the opening of "In My Feelings." There's a whole thread about it here if you want to know the whole theory, but the gist is that Drake had been sneaking down the street to have an affair with Kim to get back at Kanye.
It involves Drake using references to "your wifey," and other lyrics referencing him literally walking down the street to have a secret rendezvous with someone. And surely enough, Drake and the Kardashian-Wests live down the street from each other.
Kim has flat out denied these rumors, and West has maintained that everything is fine between him and Drake. And in the wee hours of the morning on 5 Sept, West hopped on Twitter to discuss this whole thing with Drake.
These tweets come hours after Drake teased a track that appears to be aimed directly at West. In a snippet from the forthcoming "No Stylist" Drake can be heard rapping “I told her don’t wear no 350s ’round me.”
Is this the career-ending diss track we've been waiting for? Did West jump in to preemptively smooth things over and stop Drake from releasing the track? It appears this whole beef is on the verge of blowing up.
Matt Miller is a Brooklyn-based culture/lifestyle writer and music critic whose work has appeared in Esquire, Forbes, The Denver Post, and documentaries.
