21 Savage claims to have warned Drake about the feud with Kendrick Lamar
The 33-year-old rapper, who collaborated with Drake on Her Loss, acknowledged that he warned Drake against entering a rap fight because “you finna go into a battle that you can’t win.” You can’t possibly win.
21 Savage stated on the Perspektives With Bank podcast that he cautioned Drake to “leave that s*** alone” and “not to do all that s***.” Goddamn, though, he wanted to reply because he felt like he was being lyrically challenged.
“You still don’t win even if you do. The only distinction is where winning places you when you’re at the top. Number One-Point-One is not an option. In any case, how the f*** could you win?
Savage doesn’t think Drake “took a hit,” despite the fact that Lamar was generally seen as the victor of the conflict due to the popularity of Not Like Us.
“No,” he responded. It seems to me that he was hit online. Then it’s like, “Damn, did you get hit online?” Because streaming requires an internet connection.
In the meantime, Drake’s lawsuit about the feud against his own record label was dropped back in October.
A federal judge in New York City dismissed the Canadian rapper’s lawsuit alleging defamation against Universal Music Group (UMG) for releasing and promoting Kendrick Lamar’s diss hit, “Not Like Us.”
The song’s “vitriolic war of words” amid a “heated rap battle” was found not to be defamatory by Judge Jeannette Vargas.
Despite the case, UMG expressed their satisfaction with the outcome and promised to keep collaborating with the God’s Plan hitmaker in the future.
“This suit was an insult to all artists and their creative expression from the beginning and should never have been made public,” they stated in a statement.
“We are happy that the court dismissed the case, and we look forward to carrying on with our efforts to invest in Drake’s career and effectively promote his music.”
In an earlier attempt to have the case dismissed, UMG claimed Drake had “encouraged” his dispute with Kendrick and had chosen to “sue his own record label in a misguided attempt to salve his wounds” after “losing a rap battle that he provoked.”
Not Like Us contains exaggerated taunts, according to the record company, but Drake also used their platform to “promote tracks levelling similarly incendiary attacks” on his rival.
