What better way to counter being called out on your rhymes than by dropping some hot bars! That's exactly what the rap star, Drake did when he exploded Twitter (and Meek Mill's Instagram comments) by dropping not one, but two diss tracks "Charged Up" and "Back To Back" in response to Meek Mill's accusations of him using a "ghost writer" on Twitter. Drake addressed the accusations and fired back with a second round win.
"N*ggas is snitching on us without no interrogation. I stay silent 'cause we at war, and I'm very patient," were some of the words in the opening verse of the song "Charged Up." Drake consistently dropped hard hitting lines over an extremely chill beat, a style we are all too used to from Drizzy. Many are perceiving this chill comeback as Drake's way of saying "You're not worth a serious beef." Other critics said Drake is just waiting for Meek's response and that "he's baiting him. Meek's gonna release a diss record, and then Drake'll hit him with the haymaker."
Unfortunately for Meek Mills, the critics were wrong and Drake was tired of waiting. "I waited four days, n*gga, where y'all at?/ I drove here in the Wraith playin' AR-AB/ I'm not sure what it was that really made y'all mad/ But I guess this is what I gotta do to make y'all rap,"Drake raps in his second diss track 'Back to Back'. The freestyle used a picture from the "Toronto Blue Jays 1993 World Series win over the Philadelphia Phillies, indicating his victory over Mill."
Meek Mill has been trending all over Twitter for his "beef" with Drake. Last Tuesday night Meek began this controversy with Drake on Twitter where he called out several stars. He ranted about Drake not writing the rap in their collaboration track "R.I.C.O." on Meek's new album Dreams Worth More Than Money and complained that was the reason why "he ain't tweet my album because we found out!"
Meek also fired shots at Future, whose album Drake also featured on, and said he was a "dweeb in the game". Drake rapped "I see you n*ggas having trouble going gold/ Turning into some so and so's that no one knows/ But so it go/ Come and live all your dreams out at OVO." These lyrics must have made Meek think twice because he tweeted "I can tell he wrote that 1 tho......", after hearing the track. Meek also tried to save face by saying Drake's rhymes were "Baby lotion soft....."
It seemed like Meek had so much to say on Twitter as Drake put it in 'Back to Back' "Yeah, trigger fingers turn to twitter fingers/ You gettin' bodied by a singin' n*gga/ I'm not the type of n*gga that'll type to n*ggas." Which he proved by producing two diss tracks in less than a week with no response from Meek on Twitter or in a rap yet.
Fans speculate that Meek Mills was just bent out of shape because Drake didn't tweet out his album, but Drake's response to this was that he's "done doing favors for people/ Cause it ain't like I need the money I make off a feature." Drake contentiously dropped truth bombs and lyrical metaphors, but fans still don't think Drake is going hard yet. Twitter fans say "Drake just said what he had to say."
Drake also didn't hesitate to bring up the relationship between Meek Mill and Nicki Minaj. Meek again had no filter on Twitter when he tweeted about her ex boo Safaree Samuels being gay for letting her give Drake a lap dance in her Anaconda video while they were together. Drake blasted him when he said, "No women ever had me star struck/ Or was able to tell me to get my bars up/ I'm Charged up!" In "Back to Back" Drake drops the line, "You love her, then you gotta give the world to her/ Is that a world tour or your girl's tour?" Drake was aiming at Meek's manhood, and Twitter users ran with it as memes of Meek's face photo-shopped on a wedding dress next to Nicki were inspired by this line: "And shout-out to all my boss bitches wife-in niggas/ Make sure you hit him with the prenup/ Then tell that man to ease up."
Even Safaree had something to say when he released a diss track of his own Tuesday. Twitter deemed the diss track "Grade C Trash", but somehow Safaree is still getting more respect from the fans simply by getting in the studio and firing shots which is more than they can say for Meek.
It is rumored that Meek Mill isn't the only one catching shade in this "Charged Up" rebuttal. Critics are speculating that Meek was encouraged to diss Drake by Jay-Z. How could this be? Well, a couple of days before Jay-Z announced his initiative streaming service Tidal, Drake backed out of his deal with Hov at the last minute. He instead Drake made the decision to be the artist that co-signed Tidal's biggest rivalry: Apple Music. Drizzy rapped "I'm tryna take the high road/ I still got love for my idols/ I got me a deal with Apple and I still feel entitled." This being a double entendre for "I still feel in Tidal."
Drake also rapped "Okay the flow start to sound familiar don't it? Must I remind you that Jimmy got 20 million on it/ Need DJ Clue to drop a bomb on it/ None of them want this sh*t more than I want it." The DJ Clue reference was directed toward New York DJ Funkmaster Flex who, according to Rap Genius, has been extremely vocal in his support of Meek Mill’s claim that Drake uses a ghost writer. Drake was making fun of him by calling him DJ Clue, Flex's long time rival, for gathering "evidence" against Drake when he played Quentin Miller's version of "10 bands" on the radio which sounded almost exactly like Drake's version. This was also a shot back at Meek who had Clue DJing his album release party in New York.
Flex was even named Donkey of the Day by Charlamagne Tha God on morning talk show The Breakfast Club for promising "to play reference tracks from Quentin Miller, the ghost writer for Drake." According to Charlamagne, Flex also faked the funk when he claimed he would play Meek Mill's exclusive response to Drake live on the air, but he "let the people down again" and lost a great deal of credibility from listeners. There has even been a petition to kick him off the radio. Drake showed his approval by keeping true to his lyrics in '"Back to Back"' and sent Charlamagne 6 bottles of Dom Perignon with a note that said "Let's be friends." -Aubrey Graham.
