In the history of rap beefs there is often one definitive track that ends the dispute because it is too crushing to come back from. A song such as Fuck Wit’ Dre Day, which saw Dr Dre and Snoop Dogg take Easy-E to task; or Jay Z’s salty diss The Takeover, which took Nas apart in 2001.
Now Drake seems to have landed a killer blow in his feud with Meek Mill, the rapper who accused him of using a ghostwriter, sparking a war of words on Twitter, Instagram and, now, in the studio.
Drake responded to Meek Mill’s accusations with Charged Up, which he premiered on his October’s Very Own radio show on Beats 1. Meek Mill was due to retort with a track on Monday’s Funk Master Flex show, but it never materialised.
Early on Wednesday the Toronto rapper released another track, Back to Back Freestyle, in which he pointed out Meek Mill’s lack of response and mocked Mill’s relationship with the considerably more successful Nicki Minaj.
Choice lines include:
You love her, then you gotta give the world to her/Is that a world tour or your girl’s tour?
A dig at Mill’s appearances on Nicki Minaj’s tour, where he is very much second banana to his girlfriend.
Yeah, trigger fingers turn to twitter fingers/You gettin’ bodied by a singin’ nigga
Drake refers to his own perceived softness and uses it as a weapon: he’s still coming out on top in this dispute.
Make sure you hit him with the prenup/Then tell that man to ease up
Another reference to Meek Mill’s relationship with Minaj and the fact she’s worth considerably more money than him.
The ball is well and truly in Meek Mill’s court.
