Pusha T Takes Shots At Drake, Birdman On New Wale Collab, “Damage Control”
A DMV link-up has resulted in a new track from Washington D.C. rep Wale and Virginia’s own Pusha T, as the pair collaborated on new song, “Damage Control.” The tune is featured on NBA All-Star Anthony Edwards’ new release, Culture Jam Presents: Legend In My Hood.
While Wale undoubtedly impresses with his rapid-fire flow and intricate bars, Pusha grabbed listeners’ ears thanks to lyrics that clearly reference longtime industry opps Birdman and Drake, lambasting the “What Did I Miss” artist over his Universal Music Group lawsuit centered on Kendrick Lamar diss track, “Not Like Us.”
”The realest Birdman, I just cock-a-doodle-doo / doorstep, doorstep, I get it right through / money talk, money talk, the wrist is light blue / Sugarhill sweet, sh*t is feeling type 2 / bruised egos, man, you ni**as might sue / New Jack Ninos telling on the crew,” Pusha T spit. Listen to the track below.
Pusha T has been taking shots at Birdman since the late aughts, with many citing Lil Wayne’s April 2006 VIBE cover as the beginning of the feud. With Wayne wearing a BAPE hoodie on the cover — a brand The Clipse and Pharrell Williams popularized within Hip-Hop — many took their May 2006 track “Mr. Me Too” as a diss to Weezy — including Wayne himself.
“I thought the whole ‘Mr. Me Too’ video was about me, to tell you the damn truth,” Wayne told Complex in December 2006, via BET. “They think I want to be like them. I’m on a million-dollar bus going around the world charging people from $50,000 to $150,000 for verses, and I got 77 songs in magazines and I got a billion more. Do the math; you think I’m trying to be like you? No sir…They had to do a song with us to get hot, B. “What Happened To That Boy?” C’mon, B.”
It has essentially been up between Pusha and YMCMB since, with the MC soon after replying on Virginia’s Hot 102.1 FM, “Wayne, you sort of copying The Clipse right now…I think he made a bad judgment call and just decided to take a swipe at us…maybe he’s got an album coming out. This is a small thing to a giant, he’s just acting out. If anything, I am upset about him using the F word before my name, being as though he likes to sit around and kiss men. If you gonna kiss men, you can’t even use them words in conjunction with The Clipse, Pharrell, or any of the [Star Trak ] family.”
YMCMB artist Drake — who has purchased many of Pharrell’s signature chains from the early 2000s — and Pusha T also exchanged lyrical blows during their 2018 rap battle, which produced Push’s scathing diss record, “The Story Of Adidon,” which revealed to the public that Drake had a son before the Toronto artist shared the news with fans.