One foe who definitely isn’t getting any [more] of Pusha’s time at press time, though? Drake. The 6ix God famously bowed out of their 2018 Memorial Day Weekend bout just as it was getting good, when Pusha forever altered the perception of diss tracks by backing his up with forensic evidence like a legal investigator. Drake infamously let things fizzle out before dropping an album with lines like “Never a matter of
could I or
should I… As luck would have it, I've settled into my role as the good guy.”
But before the events of last spring, Drake had been spending a lot of time on wax practically begging Pusha to get back in the ring—particularly in 2023, when he made
a music video wearing all of the classic Pharrell jewelry pieces that P auctioned off in (intentionally?) swagless fashion; bragged, on Travis Scott’s “Meltdown,” that he would destroy those grails without a care; and claimed that he could post up in Virginia any time on his own
For All the Dogs album, where he also taunted a rapper going broke amidst a refrain of
“empty clips.” In the years since they battled, Drake has done everything to complicate the good-guy image he once gamely upheld—
Dogs even samples the
Scarface “bad guy” clip.
Pusha’s heard the taunts, and much like when I asked him
a similar question three years ago, he could not care less. “I think after everything that had been done, I don't think there was ever anything subliminal to be said ever again in life. Not only just musically, like bro, I actually was
in Canada. I actually had a show and
made it home. So, I can't pay attention to none of that. I did the dance for real, not to come back and tip-toe around anything.”
So, you would only ever engage again if he went full tilt?
“Man, I would only engage again
if I felt like it.”
