Top 5 Most Savage Lines From The Drake And Pusha T Diss Tracks

To hear Drake tell it, growing up in Toronto was no walk in the park, but compared to many of his rap industry peers, his is hardly a hard knocks story. Drake has never been about street cred in the traditional hip hop sense. Pusha T on the other hand, has always mined his life experiences for lyrical content - most frequently highlighting his drug-dealing past. And that’s what Drake takes aim at here with the line: “"Man, you might've sold to college kids for Nike and Mercedes / But you act like you sold drugs for Escobar in the '80s”. Pusha T questioned Drake’s authenticity on the album “DAYTONA” and Drake returns the favor with a precision strike.
  
 

Speaking of drug references, Pusha manages to slide them in (“Dennis Graham stay off the gram, bitch I’m on one”) even while taking aim at Drake’s parentage. He raps: “You mention wedding ring like it’s a bad thing / Your father walked away at 5, hell of a dad thing/Marriage is somethin’ Sandi never had, Drake”. This isn’t a shot at Drake’s credibility; it’s a schoolyard low blow about him being a child of divorce and having an absentee dad - pretty cold stuff. But there’s even more to it. Drake evoked Pusha T’s engagement, and here Pusha T flips it around to put Drake in his place. Daddy issues, mommy issues… he’s calling it all out.
 
 

Kanye might be one of the biggest names in the industry, but he’s had a rough last couple of years, whereas Drake has continued to dominate. So when Pusha T dismissed Drake’s success as the product of ghostwriters, Drake in kind called out the company that Pusha T keeps - his producer and label founder, Kanye West (“So if you rebuke me for workin' with someone else on a couple of V's/What do you really think of the n---a that's makin' your beats?”. Drake raps “Tell 'Ye, 'We got a invoice comin' to you' / Considerin' that we just sold another 20 for you.” It’s a scathing indictment of West and Pusha T for coming after Drake as an arguably bigger artist. Adding insult to injury, Drake then posted a photo an invoice to G.O.O.D. Music for “Promotional assistance and career revival”.


 

When Drake name-dropped Pusha T’s fiancée ("Since you name-dropped my fiancée, let 'em know who you chose as your Beyonce), the latter took the gloves off. Not only did he go after Drake’s parents and his bachelor lifestyle, but he shamed him for an alleged child he fathered with a now-retired french pornstar by the name of Sophie Brussaux. Pusha T didn’t break the news - rumors had been swirling since 2017 when Brussaux went public - but the way in which he used this rumor as ammunition is absolutely vicious. He attacks Drake as a man, rapping “A baby's involved, it's deeper than rap/We talkin' character”. He then proceeds to call him a deadbeat, and challenges him to do right by mother and child. It’s a public shaming of the highest order.


 

Well, we’re not sure if this is the sort of competition one should actually want to win, but when it comes to being the most savage in a rap feud... Pusha T clinched it with this offensive line. Drake’s long-time collaborator and OVO producer, Noah Shebib, also known as 40, suffers from the degenerative disease known as multiple sclerosis - which effects over 2 million people around the world, killing anywhere between 12,000 and 19,000 annually. As such, you’d think this would be off-limits, but Pusha went for it, rapping “OVO 40, hunched over like he 80—tick, tick, tick/ How much time he got? That man is sick, sick, sick”. It’s absolutely tasteless… but it’s certainly savage.