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My Theory on Drake vs. Pusha T

And How Kanye Rooked Drake

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Anyone who knows me knows that I love drama, especially drama that doesn't involve myself. So now that the dust has settled on the Drake vs Pusha T and the major consensus among non-Drake fans is that Pusha destroyed Drake, I think now is the perfect time to unpack exactly what happened here. Personally, I have a hard time believing that Pusha just because he doesn't like Drake, there's definitely strategy involved and I think Kanye is the mastermind.

Now before we get into how I believe this unfolded, I think it's important to understand why Kanye would want to take down Drake. Kanye has produce 5 albums all coming within a 5-week span between May 25th through June 22nd:

1.) May 25: Pusha T - 'Daytona'

2.) June 1: Kanye West - 'ye'

3.) June 8: Kanye West and Kid Cud - 'Kids See Ghosts'

4.) June 15: Untitled Teyana Taylor album

5.) June 22: Untitled Nas album

Coincidentally, Drake's album 'Scorpion' is scheduled to also come out in June, so if Kanye and his people want to have less competition it makes sense to go after Drake and hurt his reputation to where he either takes a hit when it comes to sales or delays his album to let it blow over.

In my opinion the way that Kanye and Pusha put Drake in the no-win position that they did is one of the most interesting strategic moves I've seen a millionaire try to ruin another millionaire's album release. It's basically a 4-step plan to win the month of June and I love it.

Step 1: Choose someone to go after Drake - This is a pretty obvious choice, there's only one person who was lyrically capable of taking down Drake while also having no secrets of their own to hide: Lil B the BasedGod. However, since Lil B was too busy putting blessings and curses on NBA players, Pusha T would have to do. Plus Pusha had the first scheduled album release and it was on the last song so he had nothing to lose.

Step 2: Bait Drake into responding - Drake has avoided beef with numerous artists and normally doesn't take the bait unless you really get under his skin or you catch him feeling over confident. Pusha drops a lyric on 'Infrared' about Drake having ghost writers and Drake decides to respond with a whole track that even includes a line about Pusha's significant other thinking that this is going to be a meme beef like he had with Meek Mill, he is mistaken.

Step 3: Pusha bodies Drake - This is pretty self-explanatory. Pusha goes for the jugular and basically calls out everyone who Drake cares about and reveals that Drake has a secret baby with a porn star. He also mentions stuff that looks bad when you initially hear it but isn't that bad when you have the full context, but that doesn't matter because people usually remember the originally claim and not the correction. He also warns Drake that more might be coming if he responds

Step 4: Drake is in a bad spot regardless of what he does - Drake is put in a position where he looks bad regardless. He either has to respond, risking ruining his album roll out, his adidas sponsorship, and his reputation, OR he stays silent, takes the L, and loses respect in the rap community.

Now as a college student with no connections, I have no idea if this is what actually happened. In fact it probably isn't what happened, but the idea of Kanye playing his version 3D chess to mess up Drake's album release is hilarious.

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