While fans are waiting for Drake to respond to Pusha T after he dropped a diss track calling out Drizzy's alleged love child last week, Ice Cube argued that the Toronto rapper's career had already peaked and he's on the decline. Cube made the assertion when he was asked about the beef between Drake and Pusha. He said he didn't know much about it, but noted that Drake's notoriety would likely drop.
"He had a good run. You've only got a three-year run in the rap game baby," Cube said on KMEL-FM Friday. "You've only got three years at the tip-top of the rap game before you have to find your place in this thing. That's just the pattern. Everybody, Wayne when he was hot, three years on top and you were looking for somebody else."
It's unlikely that Drake will respond to Pusha's track, "The Story of Adidon," after Rap-a-Lot Records CEO James "J" Prince told the rapper to ignore Pusha. "I made an OG call to Drake this morning to tell him 'I don't want you to respond to this,'" he said on Maryland's DTLR Radio Saturday. "I call it a pigpen mentality. We gonna put this to bed because we can't get in the pigpen with pigs, because pigs turn into hogs, and then hogs get slaughtered. That's not his character. We ain't worked this hard to cheat ourselves over nothing."
Drake did, however, respond to the art Pusha used for the track, which shows him in blackface. "This was not from a clothing brand shoot or my music career," Drake explained. "This picture is from 2007, a time in my life where I was an actor and I was working on a project that was about young black actors struggling to get roles, being stereotyped and typecast. The photos represented how African Americans were once wrongfully portrayed in entertainment."
Drake stayed clear from responding to his alleged love child, who he apparently fathered with Sophie Brussaux, a former porn actress. She named the 7-month-old child Adonis. "Adidon" is reportedly the name of Drake's rumored sneaker collaboration with Adidas—a mix of his son's name and the sneaker conglomerate. "Adonis is your son / and he deserves more than an Adidas press run, that's real," Pusha raps.
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