Perhaps the great defining beef of recent times has been the war of words between Pusha T and Drake. After years of simmering tension, Drake stuck his head above the parapet with ‘Duppy Freestyle’, which took aim at Pusha but controversially also name checked his fiancée, Virginia Williams. It was the catalyst for Pusha to go even harder, just four days later. On his reply, ‘The Story of Adidon’, he outed Drake as a father, called him a deadbeat dad and mocked Drake’s producer 40 for having multiple sclerosis for good measure. While the grim exhilaration this slew of personal attacks created felt new and groundbreaking in rap, it’s frankly been that way for years.
