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What a Time for Drake and Future to Go on Tour Together

That tiny speck allegedly on top of the CN Tower you might know as Drake has another tour for you, and it’s with Future … again. They previously toured together on Drake’s 2013 run for Would You Like a Tour? — which Future famously almost got himself kicked off of, if you believe the rumors — but that was long before  their collaborative album What a Time to Be Alive existed . Time for a do-over! Drake has announced that Future will join him on his Summer Sixteen tour (named after the Drake song and, you know, this summer), which kicks off in Austin on July 20 and ends in Vancouver on September 17 — with stops in both Toronto and Atlanta, of course. Drake and Future have yet to drop any music videos for WATTBA , but if there’s ever a time for Taylor Swift to relive her treadmill face-plant to “Jumpman” (the only video this song ever needs), it’s on Drake’s stage.

In addition to the tour, Drake has also announced his seventh annual OVO Fest in Toronto, which this year will be headlined by himself, Future, Wiz Khalifa, Snoop Dogg, and whatever other Drake-y things Drake has up his sleeve. (Hi, Rihanna. Hi, Taylor.)

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Review: Drake Opens Tour in Austin, Rapping, Singing and Sneering

By Jon Caramanica

• July 21, 2016

AUSTIN, Tex. — As Drake began his show on Wednesday night at the Frank Erwin Center here, the word “revenge” was splashed across the huge screen at the back of the stage, with virtual flames shooting off the edges of the letters. The stage was mostly dark, and he stepped out to perform “Summer Sixteen,” one of his surliest songs.

It’s a storm of jabs and uppercuts, part of the long tail of his beef with Meek Mill, and also takes sidelong shots at younger artists from Toronto, his hometown, who haven’t paid proper respect.

Most importantly, the song set a tone for this concert, the opening night of Drake’s “Summer Sixteen” tour: pugnacity, provocation, sneering. (The tour stops in New York at Madison Square Garden on Aug. 4, 5, 6 and 8.)

The schism that Drake made his career by bridging used to be simple: He was a rapper, and also a singer, and moved so easily between the poles that they ceased being poles. Initially, purists were dismissive, but he trumped them with persistence and quality. The seamless whole he helped build became something of the new normal in the past few years, to the point where he’s the standard-bearer, not the disrupter.

If he’s tenser now, it’s because punching upward is easier than taking punches, but also because the tightrope he is choosing to walk is even trickier than the one he initially set out on. Just as he established his sound as the new genre standard, he made an about-face and doubled down on his rapping bona fides with last year’s muscular album “If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late,” followed by “What a Time to Be Alive,” a rowdy collaborative album with Future.

Once Drake remade rap in his image, he wanted to show that he could do it the old-fashioned way, too. But on his new album, “ Views ,” which was released in April and has spent 10 of the past 11 weeks atop the Billboard album chart, he pushed himself to the other extreme: Not only is he leaning more heavily into singing but he is also refashioning his sing-rap hybrid as global pop music. His song “One Dance” is in its 10th week atop the Billboard Hot 100 — it’s a collaboration with WizKid, the young star of Nigeria’s Afrobeats scene, and Kyla, a soul singer from the world of UK funky.

This sort of transnational pop — American, Caribbean, African — is new turf for Drake, and given that he’s one of pop music’s great sponges, it’s proving to be fertile. The breezy and accessible “Controlla,” the rising lite-dancehall hit from “Views,” is becoming as ubiquitous as “One Dance,” partly because of imitators.

This is where Drake the global pop titan and Drake the throne-defending rapper overlap. When he performed “Summer Sixteen” at this concert, he changed one lyric to adjust the song’s target slightly, rapping, “All you boys doing fake ‘Controlla’ wanna be me a little.”

Maybe Drake was referring to Tory Lanez, one of those Toronto upstarts, who recorded a worthy remake . Maybe he meant Tyga, whom Drake has spanked in the past, and whose new song “ 1 of 1 ” is “Controlla” for dummies. Whatever the case, Drake is becoming a pop star with rap-star anxieties, another novel fusion.

Accordingly, this show was bookended by tough talk, but oscillated between that and smoother, more tender sections. He put his most ferocious rapping into clusters — the triumphant (“Headlines,” “Trophies,” “0 to 100/The Catch Up”), the indignant (“Started From the Bottom,” “9”), the jubilant (“The Motto,” “For Free”). Midway through his set, he was joined by Future for a relatively subdued run of songs from their pumped-up album, including a woozy “Diamonds Dancing” and a surprisingly murky “Scholarships.”

Future also had his own hourlong set just before Drake’s, full of rat-tat-tat energy and zigzagging from one catchphrase to the next. Over the last three years, he’s brought craft and rigor to Atlanta strip-club anthems, and built a worldview out of a narcotic haze. He isn’t a particularly joyful rapper, but he’s infectious, and here he found a way to have fun, working the stage with boundless energy and, when surrounded by a troupe of four male dancers, busting out a few concise moves of his own as his squad chanted “Go Future! Go Future!”

Near the end of Future’s set, he played “March Madness,” an ecstatic song that has a recurring jolt of melancholy when he laments “all these cops shooting” black men. As he performed it, video screens behind him showed scenes of tense policing and an image of a motorcycle jacket covered in what appeared to be a logo of the early-1980s punk band Millions of Dead Cops.

Politics aren’t at the forefront of Drake’s or Future’s art, but Drake, too, made glancing reference to recent incidents of violence. This month he wrote a moving public letter in response to the police killing of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, La., but he was more vague here, encouraging the crowd to “touch these streets and love each other” before saying he was working on another album, would return to Austin and, “I don’t wanna lose nobody in this building.”

It was a half-cooked gesture for someone who ordinarily has a deft touch in making big spaces feel small. Here, he instead accomplished that through an innovation in arena-show stagecraft. Hanging from the ceiling were a few hundred spherical bulbs that suggested a fertile garden. Throughout the second half of the show, they became part of the storytelling: Sometimes they dropped at random intervals and to different lengths; sometimes they rose and fell in oceanic rhythm, suggesting waves or sine curves; sometimes a few dropped in a pattern, forming a “6” or a “?.”

These were, more often than not, the show’s softer moments, soothing hits like “Hotline Bling” and “Hold On, We’re Going Home,” or in his global-pop mini-set near the end of the show: “Controlla” and “One Dance,” along with his sinuous Rihanna collaborations “Work” and “Too Good,” songs that paint Drake as an attentive lover preoccupied with rhythm.

That version of Drake is the most currently popular, and it seemed logical that he would end the night there. But after noting that he was running over time, and would have to pay extra to the venue to extend the show, he did just that, returning to the aggressive and acidic tone that opened the night. After the caress, this was the pummeling, a series of spiteful songs like “Back to Back,” “Energy” and “Hype,” on which he rapped, “I don’t know what else is left for me/ After this no one a threat to me.”

Are those the words of a defiant rapper fending off his rivals? A pop star pushing his forward-thinking sound so relentlessly that others can only follow? For Drake — and maybe only Drake — those are one and the same, another old gap now closed.

Drake’s “Summer Sixteen” tour with Future is at Madison Square Garden in Manhattan on Aug. 4-6 and Aug. 8; ticketmaster.com.

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Drake and Future Summer Sixteen Tour: 9 highlights

The rappers kicked off a string of New York City dates on Thursday

What a time to be alive: Drake and Future kicked off the first of four shows at New York City’s Madison Square Garden on Thursday night with a non-stop, two-plus hour show that spanned the prolific rappers’ solo material as well as their collaborative album from last year. Here are some of the highlights:

Drake took to the skies

Hovering over arena crowds is a move usually reserved for the likes of Taylor Swift or Pink, but Drake didn’t want to let the pop stars have all the fun. “I’m tired of being up here, I want to see the people!” Drake announced as he stepped onto a small platform that ascended into the air and made a slow loop around the arena as he performed “Hold On, We’re Going Home.” Drake is no stranger to flying—he pulled a similar stunt while performing “Marvin’s Room” on a 2014 tour—but seeing him up there isn’t any less thrilling just because he’s done it before.

His light show was made for social media

Aside from a few moving platforms and screens, the set design of the Summer Sixteen tour was strikingly simple—that is, until you looked up at array of balloon-like lights hanging over the audience. They didn’t really do much during the first portion of Drake’s set, but once he got into “Hotline Bling,” the fixtures bathed the entire arena in pink light and started dropping and rising to the music in one of the evening’s many photo-ops. As the night progressed, the ball lights continued to change colors and shift into new formations: a wave, a cloud, a question mark, and—the most Instagram-worthy of all—a giant glowing “6.”

Drake’s setlist was jam-packed

Some artists do not care if they don’t play all of their hits for you. Drake is not one of those artists, and you can tell just by looking at his setlist. He squeezed in more than 40 songs (including some with Future) by playing some in full and others for just a few seconds. The abridged songs didn’t suffer for their length: at no point in the show did Drake seem more on fire than when he started cycling through songs in rapid-fire mode about halfway through the pre-Future portion of his set. As he invited audiences to jump along with him during segments of his guest appearances (Big Sean’s “Blessings,” Migos’ “Versace”) and his older material (“Over,” “Up All Night”), you could feel the floor of Madison Square Garden shake.

The pacing was perfect

Earlier dates on the Summer Sixteen Tour saw Future open for Drake and then return to the stage to perform songs from their joint mixtape, What a Time to Be Alive . Recently, though, Future has been popping up in the middle of Drake’s show to perform a solo set before having Drake return for their joint songs. It’s an unconventional setup, but it works: not only does it spare the audience the awkward transition time between artists, the hand-off also keeps either set from lagging at any time. Drake didn’t seem to mind the break, either, telling the crowd upon his return, “I just went backstage and took like three shots.”

Future got a little help from his friends

Drake’s show is mostly all about Drake, but Future is a eager to spread the love. Shortly after taking the stage, Future brought out A$AP Ferg to perform their recent collaboration “New Level.” Toward the end of his set, he invited Young Thug on stage for a rendition of their 2015 hit “Best Friend.” If anyone threatened to upstage Future, though, it might have been his posse of dancers. Their memorable moves—at one point, one of them mimed swimming out to a wave and climbing on a surfboard—made them hard to look away from, even when there were literal fireworks going off behind them.

Drake devoted a section to Rihanna

Drake kept checking in on his female fans between songs, but judging by their screams, nothing made them happier than when he played someone else’s song: Rihanna’s. Shortly after Future disappeared back into the stage, Drake launched into a mini Rihanna medley that kicked off with his guest verse from “Work,” followed by a snippet of their 2011 duet “Take Care” and their recent Views collaboration, “Too Good.” It was the perfect warmup for the dancehall portion of Drake’s set, which kept energy levels high with a double-whammy of “Controlla” and “One Dance.”

He’s still going “Back to Back”

At last year’s Austin City Limits music festival—one of his final shows of 2015—Drake revealed he was thinking of retiring this Meek Mill diss track from his setlists. Good thing he changed his mind: the song prompted one of the loudest audience reactions of the night, and even though Drake relished the song’s most inflammatory lines (he pointed the mic at the audience to hear them sing, “Is that a world tour or your girl’s tour?”), its inclusion in the show proved there’s still life for the song now that the beef has faded from the headlines.

Drake aired some grievances

Speaking of beef, Drake had some choice words for local radio station Hot 97, namely: “F— Hot 97.” The station’s Ebro Darden recently aired details of a private conversation he had with Drake about Eminem, which prompted rumors of a feud and possible diss tracks. “You see they tellin’ lies on Hot 97?” Drake asked. He also told the station to fire Funkmaster Flex, who last year played what appeared to be Drake reference tracks recorded by Quentin Miller, fueling speculation about whether Drake uses Miller as a ghostwriter , as Meek Mill claimed. Both Darden and Flex responded on Twitter.

Drake had no love for curfews

During a tour stop in Dallas last month, Drake was reportedly fined $13,000 for performing past the venue’s cutoff time. He didn’t seem to fazed by the fees—he threatened to do the same thing in New York. “Do you want the short show or the long show?” he asked the crowd early in the night. “In Madison Square Garden they like to cut things short.” He didn’t seem to be joking either: Much later in the evening, Drake explained that his manager, who is also his DJ, was pressuring him in between songs to be punctual, reminding him that extra time at Madison Square Garden doesn’t come cheap. “You think I give a f—?” Drake announced. “Just charge it to my credit card!”

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Drake Announces Summer Tour With Future, 2016 OVO Fest Lineup

Drake fans will have much more than warm weather to relish this summer.

The  Views From the 6  artist, whose new album is set for release on Friday (April 29), announced a new tour — for which he'll co-headline with  Future — on Twitter this morning (April 25). The Summer Sixteen tour, named for Views' lead   single, will kick off in Texas in July and wind through the United States until a final show in Vancouver in September. Roy Woods, DVSN and additional guests will support.

Drake and Future most recently collaborated on 2015's  What a Time to Be Alive . 

In the event a summer's worth of concerts isn't enough for Drake fans, the rapper also announced details for the 2016 OVO Fest, which will feature Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa . The seventh annual event will land on Toronto's Molson Canadian Amphitheater on July 29 and follow a 2015 lineup that included  Future , Pharrell Williams and Kanye West .

Until then, fans will have to hold themselves over with  Views From the 6 , the cover of which Drake unveiled last night (April 24).  Complex   first noticed that some fans mistook the featured CN Tower artwork for stock imagery , but the site pretty much debunked the notion.

Check out Drake and Future's full Summer Sixteen tour schedule below:

July 20: Austin, TX @ Frank Erwin Center July 21: Dallas, TX @ American Airlines Center July 23: Kansas City, MO @ Sprint Center July 24: St. Paul, MN @ Xcel Energy Center July 26: Chicago, IL @ United Center July 27: Chicago, IL @ United Center July 31: Toronto, Ontario @ Air Canada Centre August 4: New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden August 5: New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden August 10: Boston, MA @ TD Garden August 12: Buffalo, NY @ First Niagara Center August 13: Columbus, OH @ Nationwide Arena August 14: Nashville, TN @ Bridgestone Arena August 16: Detroit, MI @ Joe Louis Arena August 17: Pittsburgh, PA @ CONSOL Energy Center August 19: Washington, DC @ Verizon Center August 21: Philadelphia, PA @ Wells Fargo Center August 23: Greensboro, NC @ Greensboro Coliseum Complex August 25: Atlanta, GA @ Philips Arena August 27: Tampa, FL @ Amalie Arena August 30: Miami, FL @ American Airlines Arena September 2: New Orleans, LA @ Smoothie King Center September 3: Houston, TX @ Toyota Center September 4: Houston, TX @ Toyota Center September 6: Phoenix, AZ @ Talking Stick Resort Arena September 7: Los Angeles, CA @ Staples Center September 9: Los Angeles, CA @ Staples Center September 11: Las Vegas, NV @ T-Mobile Arena September 13: Oakland, CA @ Oracle Arena September 16: Tacoma, WA @ Tacoma Dome September 17: Vancouver, BC @ Pepsi Live at Rogers Arena

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Plus: The Toronto rapper has revealed the 2016 lineup for OVO Fest as well as the artwork his new album Views From the 6

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Drake ’s new album Views From the 6 is out this Friday. Ahead of the album’s release, the Toronto rapper has announced dates for his Summer Sixteen North American Tour alongside Future . He’s also revealed the lineup for his annual OVO Fest.

The Summer Sixteen Tour kicks off July 20th in Austin, Texas and includes multiple dates in Chicago, Toronto, New York City, Houston, and Los Angeles. The tour takes its name from Drake’s recently released single .  Update – Wednesday, April 27th at 9:20 a.m. CT:   Drake has added new dates in New York, Washington, Atlanta, Miami, Houston, Oakland, Vancouver, and Los Angeles.

Amid the tour, Drake’s OVO Fest will take place July 29th at the Molson Amphitheatre in Toronto, featuring performances from Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa , among others.

Views From the 6 , Drake’s fourth solo album and the follow-up to 2013’s Nothing Was the Same , arrives April 29th. Check out the album’s newly revealed artwork below. His full tour schedule follows. Update – Tuesday, April 26th at 10:45 p.m. CT: Views From the 6 will be premiered during a special installment of Drake’s OVO Sound radio show on Thursday, April 28th at 10:00 p.m. EST.

To the city I love and the people in it…Thank you for everything #VIEWS pic.twitter.com/HEXHNwrWwd — Drizzy (@Drake) April 25, 2016

Drake and Future 2016 Tour Dates: 07/20 – Austin, TX @ Frank Erwin Center 07/21 – Dallas, TX @ American Airlines Center 07/23 – Kansas City, MO @ Sprint Center 07/24 – St. Paul, MN @ Xcel Energy Center 07/26 – Chicago, IL @ United Center 07/27 – Chicago, IL @ United Center 07/29 – Toronto, ON @ OVO Fest 07/31 – Toronto, ON @ Air Canada Centre 08/01 – Toronto, ON @ Air Canada Centre 08/04 – New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden 08/05 – New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden 08/06 – New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden 08/10 – Boston, MA @ TD Garden 08/12 – Buffalo, NY @ First Niagara Center 08/13 – Columbus, OH @ Nationwide Arena 08/14 – Nashville, TN @ Bridgestone Arena 08/16 – Detroit, MI @ Joe Louis Arena 08/17 – Pittsburgh, PA @ CONSOL Energy Center 08/19 – Washington, DC @ Verizon Center 08/20 – Washington, DC @ Verizon Center 08/21 – Philadelphia, PA @ Wells Fargo Center 08/23 – Greensboro, NC @ Greensboro Coliseum Complex 08/25 – Atlanta, GA @ Philips Arena 08/26 – Atlanta, GA @ Philips Arena 08/27 – Tampa, FL @ Amalie Arena 08/30 – Miami, FL @ American Airlines Arena 08/31 – Miami, FL @ American Airlines Arena 09/02 – New Orleans, LA @ Smoothie King Center 09/03 – Houston, TX @ Toyota Center 09/04 – Houston, TX @ Toyota Center 09/06 – Phoenix, AZ @ Talking Stick Resort Arena 09/07 – Los Angeles, CA @ Staples Center 09/09 – Los Angeles, CA @ Staples Center 09/10 – Los Angeles, CA @ Staples Center 09/11 – Las Vegas, NV @ T-Mobile Arena 09/13 – Oakland, CA @ Oracle Arena 09/14 – Oakland, CA @ Oracle Arena 09/16 – Tacoma, WA @ Tacoma Dome 09/17 – Vancouver, BC @ Pepsi Live at Rogers Arena 09/18 – Vancouver, BC @ Pepsi Live at Rogers Arena

Drake. Future. #SummerSixteenTour . Tickets on sale Friday 4/29. https://t.co/j5n9pJ7pGz pic.twitter.com/224t47uV8l — Drizzy (@Drake) April 25, 2016

Seventh Annual OVOFEST pic.twitter.com/Y8KeKSHt6R — Drizzy (@Drake) April 25, 2016

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Drake & Future Announce Summer 2016 Tour Dates - Full List!

Drake and Future are set to head out on tour together this summer!

The rappers, who collaborated on the mixtape What a Time to Be Alive last year, will be joined on the road by Roy Woods , DVSN , and more special guests.

Tickets for the tour go on sale on Friday (April 29). The tour kicks off on July 20 in Austin, Texas and the guys will play shows until September 17 with a closing night in Vancouver, Canada.

Drake will be promoting his new album Views from the 6 , which is set to be released this Friday as well.

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7/20 Austin, TX

7/21 Dallas, TX

7/23 Kansas City, KS

7/24 St. Paul, MN

7/26 Chicago, IL

7/27 Chicago, IL

7/31 Toronto, CA

8/1 Toronto, CA

8/4 New York, NY

8/5 New York, NY

8/10 Boston, MA

8/12 Buffalo, NY

8/13 Columbus, OH

8/14 Nashville, TN

8/16 Detroit, MI

8/17 Pittsburgh, PA

8/19 Washington, D.C.

8/21 Philadelphia, PA

8/23 Greensboro, NC

8/25 Atlanta, GA

8/27 Tampa, FL

8/30 Miami, FL

9/2 New Orleans, LA

9/3 Houston, TX

9/4 Houston, TX

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9/9 Los Angeles, CA

9/11 Las Vegas, NV

9/13 Oakland, CA

9/16 Seattle, WA

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• My Way by Fetty Wap
• No Lie by 2 Chainz
• Work by Rihanna
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• Know Yourself
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DRAKE SUMMER SIXTEEN TOUR WITH FUTURE AND SPECIAL GUESTS

• Date Aug 14 , 2016
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Grammy® Award-winning and multi-platinum selling artist  Drake  will launch the DRAKE SUMMER SIXTEEN TOUR WITH FUTURE AND SPECIAL GUESTS in support of his brand new album, View.  Drake's newest album, View, is currently set for release on April 29, 2016.  The album's multi-platinum certified lead single, "Hotline Bling," became a massive hit reaching #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and  #1 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip Hop Songs and Billboard Rhythmic charts. Three of the album's subsequent singles, "Summer Sixteen," "Pop Style," and "One Dance," are all currently in the Top 20 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip Hop Songs charts with "One Dance" and "Pop Style" sitting at the #1 and #3 spot respectively on the Billboard R&B/Hip Hop Digital Songs chart this week.  

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Drake and Future Announce Summer Sixteen Tour

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After sharing the cover artwork for his forthcoming album Views From the 6 last night, Drake has announced the Summer Sixteen tour, co-presented by Apple Music. (The tour shares its name with one of Drake's recent singles. )  Future is set to join, alongside OVO signees Roy Woods and DVSN, with more special guests promised. The North American tour begins in July and will run through mid-September. Tickets for the tour go on sale to the general public on Friday, April 29.  Update (04/25, 08:05 a.m.): Drake has also announced the seventh annual OVO Fest will take place on July 29, once again at Molson Amphitheatre in Toronto. This year's edition will feature Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa, as well as the third OVO Bounce basketball tournament.  Update (4/26 9:03 a.m.): More shows have been added , including second dates in New York, Washington, Atlanta, Miami, Houston, Oakland, and Vancouver, plus a third L.A. date. See the updated list below.

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Future, Metro Boomin announce We Trust You concert tour after fiery double feature, Drake feud

Metro Boomin and Future are trusting their fans to buy tour tickets.

The Grammy-winning rapper and Grammy-nominated producer announced their We Trust You Tour kicking off this July through the end of summer.

Future and Metro Boomin will make stops across North America with a 27-date tour including performances in Atlanta, Brooklyn, Toronto, Chicago and more to celebrate their double feature albums, "We Don't Trust You," which was released in March, and their April follow-up "We Still Don't Trust You."

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The albums stirred controversy in rap with disses aimed at Drake from guest stars J. Cole , Kendrick Lamar , The Weeknd and A$AP Rocky .

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Presale tickets are available Wednesday for Cash App card customers, starting at 10 a.m. local time. General sale will begin on Friday at 10 a.m. local time on livenation.com .

J. Cole takes apparent swipe at Drake in 'Red Leather' after Kendrick Lamar diss apology

Where are Future and Metro Boomin going on We Trust You tour dates?

• Tuesday, July 30 – Kansas City, Missouri – T-Mobile Center
• Wednesday, July 31 – Saint Paul, Minnesota – Xcel Energy Center
• Friday, Aug. 2 – Milwaukee – Fiserv Forum
• Saturday, Aug. 3 – Chicago – Lollapalooza Music Festival
• Sunday, Aug. 4 – Detroit – Little Caesars Arena
• Tuesday, Aug. 6 – Nashville, Tennessee – Bridgestone Arena
• Thursday, Aug. 8 – Atlanta – State Farm Arena
• Saturday, Aug. 10 – Columbus, Ohio – Schottenstein Center
• Sunday, Aug. 11 – Toronto – Scotiabank Arena
• Tuesday, Aug. 13 – Boston – TD Garden
• Wednesday, Aug. 14 – Philadelphia – Wells Fargo Center
• Thursday, Aug. 15 – Brooklyn, New York – Barclays Center
• Saturday, Aug. 17 – Washington – Capital One Arena
• Tuesday, Aug. 20 – New Orleans – Smoothie King Center
• Thursday, Aug. 22 – Houston – Toyota Center
• Friday, Aug. 23 – San Antonio – Frost Bank Center
• Saturday, Aug. 24 – Dallas – American Airlines Center
• Sunday, Aug. 25 – Tulsa, Oklahoma – BOK Center
• Tuesday Aug 27 – Denver – Ball Arena
• Wednesday, Aug. 28 – Salt Lake City – Delta Center
• Friday, Aug. 30 – Las Vegas – T-Mobile Arena
• Saturday, Aug. 31 – Inglewood, California – Intuit Dome
• Tuesday, Sept. 3 – Sacramento, California – Golden 1 Center
• Wednesday, Sept. 4 – Oakland, California – Oakland Arena
• Friday, Sept. 6 – Seattle – Climate Pledge Arena
• Saturday, Sept. 7 – Portland, Oregon – Moda Center
• Monday, Sept. 9 – Vancouver, British Columbia – Rogers Arena

J. Cole apologizes to Kendrick Lamar for 'lame' diss '7 Minute Drill': 'I was conflicted'

'We Don't Trust You' and 'We Still Don't Trust You' vs. Drake: Diss tracks explained

Future and Metro Boomin's "We Don't Trust You," released March 22, and "We Still Don't Trust You," released April 12, unleashed grievances other rappers had with Toronto rapper Drake.

Lamar, Cole and Drake are widely recognized as their rap class' "Big Three," the most recognizable stars in the genre over the past decade. Cole referred to himself, Drake (Aubrey Graham) and Lamar (K. Dot) as the "big three" in modern rap in Drake's 2023 song "First Person Shooter."

Lamar shut down the "big three" line on the "We Don't Trust You" track "Like That." In the song, he called out "First Person Shooter" by name and said "it's just big me" when it comes to rap titans.

Following the diss, J. Cole dropped a surprise album, "Might Delete Later," which included "7 Minute Drill," where Cole alluded to hearing about Lamar's diss, rapping, "I got a phone call, they say that somebody dissing / You want some attention, it come with extensions."

"He still doing shows but fell off like 'The Simpsons,'" the North Carolina rapper continued, adding that Lamar's first album was "classic" and his latest was "tragic."

But two days later,  at his Dreamville Festival,  J. Cole told his home state crowd during a headlining set that his diss track was a "lame" and "goofy" decision, in  videos captured by attendees .

J. Cole later appeared as a guest on the "We Still Don't Trust You" track "Red Leather," a seven-minute song that features an apparent swipe at Drake.

"Kept my nose out the streets, but I love to get a whiff / Of the action, with risk comes attraction / The blicks get to blastin’, I turn into a track star,” Cole raps on the track, who also said that his "story's more clever, my similes was better."

Rapper A$AP Rocky, who is the longtime boyfriend of Drake's ex  Rihanna,  also took shots at Drake on the "We Still Don't Trust You" track "Show of Hands," saying the Canadian rapper's latest music "came and went" and he didn't "trust" him.

The Weeknd joined the band wagon on "We Still Don't Trust You," remarking on the track "All to Myself" that he's glad never "signed (his) life away" to Drake's OVO label. He also took aim at Drake's "shooters," joking that they're too busy "making TikToks."

Future didn't let his features have all the fun. On the track "This Sunday," Future seemingly interpolates the chorus of Drake’s 2016 song "Feel No Ways" by telling his former "Life Is Good" collaborator that he doesn't care if Drake "feel a way" about all the disses.

Drake has yet to issue a formal response to the diss tracks, although a rumored single allegedly called "Push Ups" was leaked on social media Saturday that seemingly addresses Lamar and Metro Boomin.

Contributing: Jay Stahl

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Future, Metro Boomin announce We Trust You concert tour after fiery double feature, Drake feud

Future & Metro Boomin Clowned By Drake Fans Over Tour Sales

Metro Boomin and Future will be embarking on the tour in July.

Drake fans are clowning Future and Metro Boomin on social media for the sales of their upcoming We Don't Trust You tour . According to Touring Data , the duo has sold 177,318 tickets across North America with 43.13% sold. The tickets for the tour went on sale on Friday.

Drake fans were quick to attack the two in the replies to the post. "Don’t y’all see why streams don’t matter? Touring is where the real money in music is. Your music can be at the top of the music charts but doesn’t mean people actually care about you." Others came to Metro and Future's defense, suggesting it's only been a couple of days since the shows went on sale. "43% in 2 days means everything is almost paid for, it’ll be all profit by May/early June. This is good for a non-pop hiphop tour," one user wrote.

Read More: Metro Boomin & Future Reveal Six-Week "WE TRUST YOU TOUR": Details

Future & Metro Boomin Perform On The "One Big Party Tour"

Drake wrapped up his It's All a Blur Tour , last month. Months before that, it surpassed Kendrick Lamar 's Big Steppers Tour to become the highest-grossing rap tour ever . It reportedly brought in over $200 million in revenue. He performed a total of 72 shows across the United States and Canada with an attendance of over 830,000. After the initial run, he added J Cole as a co-headliner for a second leg titled It's All a Blur Tour – Big as the What?

Metro Boomin & Future's Tour Data Revealed

Metro Boomin and Future have been feuding with Drake since the release of their first collaborative album, We Don't Trust You , last month. Across their two albums together, they've hosted several artists to diss the Toronto rapper. Be on the lookout for further updates on Future and Metro Boomin on HotNewHipHop .

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Future and Metro Boomin's We Still Don't Trust You Features A$AP Rocky, The Weeknd, and New Jabs At Drake

By Frazier Tharpe

Just when we all thought Future and Metro Boomin had played their ace, revealed their jokers, and dropped their Draw 4, they've gone and tossed a major Wild Card, one that doubles down on their early 2024 reign, somehow manages to bolster their already-cemented legends—and yes, extends and complicates the Drake vs the Universe beef even more.

We should have seen this coming when Metro revealed this second album’s title, We Still Don’t Trust You. Originally when he and Future first announced their plan to drop two projects just weeks apart, fans assumed they would be serving up a redux of one of Future’s biggest career flexes—that moment in winter 2017 when he dropped a self-titled album, boasting some of his biggest rap hits to date, and then seven days later dropped HNDRXX , another, arguably better (not arguable, to be honest—it's factually better) full-length album that fully indulged in his R&B skillset.

But, in a post- “Like That” world, the second album title made that concept seem like less of a lock. That Still seemed a little too aggressive for an R&B album, and Metro captioning his title-announcement post “job’s not finished” suggested he and Future were more interested in spinning the block on Drake again. The joke, naturally, is on us, for not assuming that if any duo would be capable of pulling off both, it’s these two. Still is indeed the spiritual sequel to HNDRXX fans (read: I) have been pleading for since ‘17, and it reminds us that subliminals still hit when they’re crooned.

But these two know what they started, and they know there’s bloodlust in the air—so in yet another swerve, Future and Metro's R&B album includes a surprise package of six new rap songs, on which even more direct shots are fired.

Before we get to that though, it must be said: much like HNDRXX stood taller than FUTURE , when the dust settles, We Still Don’t might— might —clear its admittedly very excellent rap predecessor. Boyz II Men interpolations, Ginuwine flips, a Brownstone sample, like a half dozen Weeknd features with his voice in full angelic ethereal mode—Future’s vocal performance and Metro’s production have somehow shifted into an even higher gear. From subverting expectations with a frisky little Miami Vice -type groove to start, the project just sounds great top to bottom with nary a skip. If you're keeping score, that makes essentially 35 heaters, give or take, that this dynamic duo has given us in the past three weeks alone, not counting the new album's bonus rap songs. It's still early in the year, but it’s going to be a tall order for any mainstream rap projects in the pipeline to outdo these two.

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Now, to the drama. The lion’s share of the rap community is more focused on Drake and Kendrick, but if even half of the narratives swirling around Future and Drake are true, then there’s real disdain here. So, something as innocuous as say, We Still Don’t Trust You track five, “This Sunday,” interpolating Drake’s classic Views album cut “Feel No Ways” comes off here as calculated and petty, especially considering it has led the masses to realize that “Sunday” existed first —Drake was actually the one doing the interpolating, which is why his 2016 track lowkey always had a Future credit. Is this Future just liberating a long-sought-after loosie, much like the first album’s “Ice Attack,” or this one's “Red Leather,” which we'll get to in a minute? Or is he also sneakily reminding everyone that while Drake’s given him a lot of hits, their influence on each other has always gone both ways?

If you want more direct darts, look no further than the aforementioned guest appearances from The Weeknd. When Abel made a cameo on We Don’t Trust You , some fans joked that even his tangential involvement was an implicit co-sign of the album’s subliminal mission statement to line Drake up. But on “All to Myself,” a Still Don’t Trust You standout, he makes the subtext plain, singing “They could never diss my brothers, baby/When they got leaks in they operation/I thank God that I never signed my life away/And we never do the big talk/They shooters makin TikToks/Got us laughin in the Lambo.” The nuances of Abel and Drake’s complicated relationship are beyond the scope of this article, but the short version is that there have been frienemy, hot-and-cold vibes between them since the Weeknd declined to sign to Drake’s OVO label, even after Drake’s 2011 Take Care album broke him on a mainstream level. Since then, there have been video cameos , concert guest appearances , shoutouts on wax , and links in Vegas —but dig deep enough, and you'll find frostier comments and subliminal jabs to match. And as for shooters making Tiktoks, there is one such highly touted member in Drake’s crew who just made a decidedly non-threatening social media post not too long ago.

For the most part, though, We Still Don’t Trust You finds Future in his HNDRXX bag, crooning about love (or lack thereof) and other drugs. There’s little room for dissing. Which is why it sure as hell seems like Volume 2’s rap songs were a late addition that he and Metro attached to continue stoking the fire their first album started. There are a few telltale signs: first, the Charlamagne clip that kicks off the rap-pack section of the album—where he says the Big 3 should really be a Fantastic 4 that includes Future, who he argues is number one—is extremely recent , like, days ago. And track six, “Show of Hands,” boasts a surprise feature from none other than A$AP Rocky, who gleefully kicks his verse off by chiding Metro and Pluto for not including him “on the first one.” Which sure as hell reads like he would’ve dropped everything to be a part of the “Fuck Drake” movement the first go-round if they’d tipped him off.

Rocky, much like Kendrick, was embraced by an already-ascendant Drake in the early days of his career. Who can forget the frat rap posse cut “Fuckin Problems,” on which all three rappers trade jiggy bars over a co-produced Drake beat? And Drake won’t let us forget that he tapped both of them as openers on his Club Paradise tour around the same time. They haven’t collaborated on wax much since, but have indicated closeness through shoutouts and the occasional public appearance. Drake even once gifted Rocky a chain bearing the visage of the late great A$AP Yams.

That all changed when Rocky got together with Rihanna, whose on-and-off history with Drake spans something like 2009 to 2016. When Rocky confirmed the relationship, and its seriousness, to this magazine back in 2021 , it didn’t take long for the internet to flood the zone with memes about Drake—who himself once joked about his ideal picture-perfect life including “a family with Rihanna”— being heartbroken. But Drake seemed unbothered—until his last album, where he made a show of declaring a little too strongly how much the Rocky/Rihanna union didn't bother him.

Conspiracy theorists can make a case for 2021’s “Fucking Fans” being all about the dissolution of his relationship with Rih, but there’s no room for debate on the For All the Dogs album cut “Fear of Heights,” where he goes out of his way to tell us he’s referencing Rihanna, before insisting that he’s “had way badder” women and sneering that “that man” is “stuck with you, he can’t leave.” There are other little allusions to both Rocky and Rihanna across Dogs ' track list. On that album’s deluxe opener “Red Button,” a big One Size Fits All subliminal about taking it there with his opps if they dare him to, he raps “Word to M-Dolla, she the only one could maybe save it/Should've hit you first, but, sis, you know about the shit I've taken,” referencing Rihanna’s best friend Melissa Forde by her nickname. And on his most recent tour , Drake made a show of playing his Rihanna collab “Work,” just so he could announce that he won’t perform it anymore.

After only two days, Cole is walking back his “7 Minute Drill” diss track after using his Dreamville Fest performance to apologize to Kendrick and declare that he's done with this beef.

So whereas Kendrick, Future and the other artists seemingly turning up on Drake may seem a little random, Rocky joining the fray should be the least surprising. His verse is hardly as thunderous as Kendrick’s, but he’s basically gesturing to Drake’s metaphorical red button and volunteering to press it himself, especially with lines like “Niggas in they feelings over women, what, you hurt or somethin?/I smash before you birthed, son, Flacko hit it first, son.” That last line is likely alluding to relations Rocky may have had with Sophie , the woman with whom Drake shares a child. (Whereas Kendrick attacked Drake's skill and bonafides, Rocky seems to be going full “Super Ugly” with it.) This is about as specific as Rocky gets—“Your last shit came and went” is pretty boilerplate, as disses go—but given that he ends the track saying “Fuck keepin' this shit hip-hop/I wanna see a fuck nigga bleed out,” he sounds like he’s less interested in lyrical sparring.

Despite that kiss-off line, there could be more in the chamber from Rocky as well; he told GQ in late 2022 that he and Metro had been spending so much time together in the studio that his next album should “just be called Flacko Boomin .” Metro, it would seem, is the conductor marshaling most of these Drake attacks, essentially assembling a who’s-who crew to pop shit over his baleful and routinely excellent beats like the rap game Sinister Six.

One person we can mark safe from all of this is J. Cole, who just days after his 48-hour about-face apology to Kendrick , turns up here, making a refreshingly new bemusing decision. Cole appears on the Volume 1 closer “Red Leather” with a verse that instantly ranks high in the competitive pantheon of Great J. Cole Guest Verses. Although some sites are eagerly reaching to paint certain bars as Cole's commentary on his own Kendrick apology, this verse was seemingly recorded well before any of this popped off. But given everything that's transpired since, the decision on his part to clear the verse—i.e., to let it appear on the sequel to the album dissing his one friend which inspired him to half-heartedly diss his other friend, only to draw the rap community’s ire by promptly bowing out of the competition—makes absolutely no sense. It sounds great, though!

Now more than ever, all eyes are on the sky, waiting for the Owl Signal to hit and signal a long-awaited Drake response record. Reports imply it’s imminent. But years from now, when the dust settles and this geopolitical skirmish fades from top of mind, what we’ll be left with is just two really great albums that stand all on their own.

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Nothing has been the same since Drake and Kendrick Lamar first collaborated in 2011.

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Everyone wanted this: a lyrical death match between the biggest rappers in the game today,  Drake  and  Kendrick Lamar.  At first, things seemed rosy between the young behemoths when they collaborated on each other’s records during the early stages of their careers. As time passed, friendly fire became a volcanic eruption, sparked by Lamar’s  earth-shattering feature  last Friday (Mar. 22) on Future and Metro Boomin’s  We Don’t Trust You  album. 

Lamar didn’t mince words, hurling daggers at Drake and Cole like: “Yeah, get up with me, f–k sneak dissing/’First Person Shooter,’ I hope they came with three switches,” before spewing more venom towards the duo. “Think I won’t drop the location? I still got PTSD/ Motherf–k the Big Three, n—a, it’s just big me.”

Though Drizzy hasn’t put pen to paper just yet, he said some words to Lamar during his Sunrise, Fla. concert this past Sunday night (Mar. 24).

“A lot of people ask me how I’m feeling. I’m a let you know I’m feeling. Listen, the same way I’m feeling is the same way I want you to walk out this building tonight,” he said. “I got my f–king head up high, my back straight, I’m ten f–king toes down in Florida and anywhere else I go. And I know that no matter what, it’s not a n—a on this earth that could ever f–k with me in my life!”

Billboard  examines the ups and downs of what was once a fruitful and competitive relationship between Kendrick and Drake. 

Nov. 2011: Kendrick Lamar Featured on Drake's  Take Care  Album

In 2011, Drake evolved from being the polarizing rookie to a full-fledged superstar, trumping expectations with his debut outing. While he hoisted incredible chart stats following his  Thank Me Later  campaign, questions lingered about whether he could elevate his game to the next level.  Take Care  was the resounding answer to critics, as he pivoted back to his popular  So Far Gone  roots and invited several big-name guests along for the ride, one being the highly-touted neophyte Kendrick Lamar.

Coming off  Section 80 , Lamar was arguably the next West Coast savior to steer the ship, and Drake took advantage of his momentum by allowing him to shine on his “Buried Alive Interlude.” Lamar’s ego was on ten, detonated by the co-sign of Drizzy, rapping: “So blame it on Mr. OVOXO/ The reason why I’m breathin’ all the vanity I know.”

Feb. 2012: Drake Invites Kendrick Lamar to Open on Club Paradise Tour

Drake extended his hand again to the burgeoning Lamar, who garnered rave reviews for his appearance on “Buried Alive” by bringing him alongside A$AP Rocky as the opening acts for his Club Paradise Tour. Drake later rapped about his decision to fight for Rocky and Lamar as his openers on 2016’s “4 PM in Calabasas,” recalling “When they told me take an R&B ni–a on the road/ And I told ’em no and drew for Kendrick and Rocky.”

Oct. 2012: Drake and Kendrick Lamar Appear on A$AP Rocky's "Fuckin' Problems" & Collaborate on "Poetic Justice"

Following Drake’s Club Paradise Tour, A$AP rounded up some of his rap comrades from Drizzy’s trek, including the 6 God, K. Dot, and 2 Chainz for “F–kin’ Problems.” Following that firestarter, Kendrick and Drake would team up again, but this time on the former’s debut album. Like “Fuckin’ Problems,” “Poetic Justice” would be a commercial success, peaking at No. 26 on the Billboard Hot 100. Unfortunately, that would mark the final collaboration between Drake and Lamar. 

Aug. 2013:   Kendrick Lamar Takes Aim at Drake & the Rap Game on Big Sean's "Control"  

After Lamar solidified himself as a household name courtesy of his major label debut  good kid, m.A.A.d city,  his swagger and confidence were on ten — so much so that he sacked Drake and his peers on Big Sean’s “Control.” K. Dot’s searing take on his stance on the rap game shook the landscape as he boldly called out J. Cole, Meek Mill, Drake, Big K.R.I.T., Wale, Pusha T, ASAP Rocky, Tyler, the Creator, Mac Miller, Big Sean and Jay Electronica. “I got love for you all, but I’m trying to murder you n—as/ Trying to make sure your core fans never heard of you n—as/ They don’t want to hear not one more noun or verb from you ni–as,” he rapped.

Drake responded to Kendrick’s diss while gracing the cover of  Billboard  that same month, telling the publication: “I didn’t really have anything to say about it. It just sounded like an ambitious thought to me. That’s all it was. I know good and well that [Lamar] ‘s not murdering me, at all, in any platform. So when that day presents itself, I guess we can revisit the topic.”

Oct. 2013: Kendrick Lamar Comes at Drake During BET Hip-Hop Awards Cypher

Kendrick continued applying pressure on Drake when he and TDE visited the BET Hip-Hop Awards in 2013 and participated in the cipher. Over the menacing “Shook Ones” instrumental, K. Dot engaged in target practice: “Nothing’s been the same since they dropped ‘Control’/ And tucked a sensitive rapper back in his pajama clothes/ Ha ha joke’s on you, high-five… I’m bulletproof/ Your shoots never penetrates/ Pin the tail on the donkey, boy you been a fake.”

Dec. 2013: Drake Covers  VIBE Magazine  And Says He "Stood [His] Ground" During Kendrick Diss

During a cover story with VIBE Magazine, Drake addressed his shots at Kendrick on “The Langauge” and why he felt compelled to stand his ground against The Compton MC.

“Where it became an issue is that I was rolling out an album while that verse was still bubbling, so my album rollout became about this thing. What am I supposed to say? Nah, we’ll be buddy-buddy? Mind you, I never once said he’s a bad guy [or] I don’t like him. I think he’s a f–king genius in his own right, but I also stood my ground as I should. And with that came another step, which then I have to realize I’m being baited and I’m not gonna fall. Jordan doesn’t have to play pickup to prove that he could play ball, no offense. But I’m not gonna give you the chance to shake me necessarily, ’cause I feel great. There’s no real issue.”

2015-2016: Subtle Shots Fired From Both Sides, But Nothing Groundbreaking

During these years, Kendrick and Drake exchanged a few jabs, most notably K. Dot, when he took aim at Drizzy on “King Kunta” and called him out over his ghostwriting allegations. “I can dig rapping/ But a rapper with a ghost writer? What the f–k happened?” he penned. Drake countered back on The Game’s “100” the same year, rapping: “I would have all of your fans/ If I didn’t go pop and I stayed on some conscious s–t.” 

Kendrick’s onslaught continued on Dr. Dre’s  Compton  album, where he fired more shots on “Darkside / Gone” and “Deep Water.” The latter was the more chilling of the two: “They liable to bury him, they nominated six to carry him/ They worry him to death, but he’s no vegetarian/ The beef is on his breath, inheriting the drama better than / A great white, n—a, this is life in my aquarium.”

Oct. 2023: Drake & J. Cole Link Up on "First Person Shooter"

Drake and Cole made history when they scored their first Hot 100. No. 1 song together (and Cole’s first of any kind) with “First Person Shooter.” This would be their first collaboration since 2013’s “Jodeci Freestyle.” The track is triumphant, as they share the spotlight and boast about being stadium-status MCs. Unbeknownst to him, Cole woke up the sleeping bear in Lamar when he was saluting the triumvirate of him, K. Dot, and Drake, saying: “Love when they argue the hardest MC/ Is it K-Dot? Is it Aubrey? Or me?/ We the big three like we started a league/ but right now, I feel like Muhammad Ali.”

Mar. 22, 2024: Kendrick Goes Full Attack Mode on Future & Metro Boomin's "Like That"

Kendrick didn’t hold back when given the baton on Future & Metro Boomin’s “Like That.” He fired a full clip of shots at both Cole and Drake, most notably the latter. “F–k sneak dissin’, first-person shooter/ I hope they came with three switches,” Lamar snarls when speaking on the chart-topping collaboration between the “Evil Ways” MCs. He continued demolishing both rappers when he denounced the “Big 3” of him, Cole and Drake, by saying: “Motherf–k” the big three, n—a, it’s just big me.” He punctuated his verse by calling back to Drake’s  For All the Dogs  album, rapping: “For all your dogs gettin’ buried/ That’s a K with all these nines, he gon’ see Pet Sematary.”

Mar. 25, 2024: Drake Seemingly Responds to K. Dot's Diss During His It's All a Blur - Big as the What Tour

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Days after Lamar torched the internet with his scathing verse, Drake used time during his tour stop in Sunrise, Fla. to address the elephant in the room: “A lot of people asking me how I’m feeling,” he began. “I’mma let you know how I’m feeling. Listen, the way I’m feeling is the same way I want you to walk out of here feeling tonight about your f–king self.”

“Because you know how I’m feeling?” Drake asked. “I got my f–king head up high, my back straight, I’m 10 f–king toes down in Florida or anywhere else I go, and I know that no matter what, there’s not a n—a on this earth that could ever f–k with me in my life. And that’s how I want you to walk outta here tonight.”

April 2024: Drake Releases "Push Ups" Diss on Streaming Services

A week after it originally leaked and then got premiered by DJ Akademiks , Drake brought his Kendrick Lamar diss track “Push Ups” to streaming services on April 19. The 6 God mocks Kendrick’s small stature — notably his foot size with the cover art — and his deal with Top Dawg Entertainment. K. Dot wasn’t the only target as Drake appears to aim at Rick Ross, The Weeknd, Metro Boomin, Future and more on the track.

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Ye Premieres "Like That" Remix Dissing Drake and J. Cole: ‘Dot I Got You’

After the remix leaked online, the rapper debuted his verse on 'The Download' with Justin Laboy.

Ye premiered his diss verse aimed at Drake and J. Cole , on a remix to Metro Boomin and Future 's "Like That," after a leak of the track circulated online earlier this weekend.

While paying a visit to Justin LaBoy's The Download , Ye debuted the remix that contained a new verse from him, as well as a new set of bars from Ty Dolla $ign and Future. In the track, Ye makes it clear whose side he's on in the ongoing hip-hop civil war, starting his verse off with: "You know we had to get the hooligans up here to get these pussy n***as out, yo Dot I got you."

In the verse, Ye takes shots at Drake, rapping, "It's a wrap for n***as/ Where's Lucian, serve your master, n***a/ You caught a little bag for your masters didn't ya/ Lifetime deal I feel bad for n***as."

He also takes aim at Cole:

"Y'all so out of sight, out of mind / I can't even think of a Drake line / Play J. Cole, get the pussy dry," he raps.

Listen to the full verse below.

YE PREMIERES "LIKE THAT" REMIX ON @TheDownloadShow @KanyeWest HE REALLY LIKE THAT #Respectfully pic.twitter.com/ADZLzHzU1b — Respectfully Justin (@JustinLaboy) April 20, 2024

The Chicago rap legend also shared a NSFW meme of a woman pleasuring a man after learning he doesn't listen to Cole, which references a line on his "Like That" remix: "Play J. Cole, get the p***y dry."

Ye has a long history of conflict with Drake and J. Cole. Drake has thrown both subliminals and direct shots at Ye on various tracks, while Cole took the subtle approach and talked about him falling from grace on the song "False Prophets."

pic.twitter.com/HSinrSwAd1 — ye (@kanyewest) April 20, 2024

Ye's verse arrives a month after he claimed he "washed"  Kendrick Lamar  on  The Life of Pablo  song "No More Parties In LA" and Drake at their benefit concert calling for the release of  Larry Hoover .

"Everyone knows I washed Kendrick on No More Parties in LA," wrote Ye. "Everyone knows I washed Drake at the Free Hoover concert. everyone knows I brought Adidas into this culture and I took them out. Everyone knows lotta Demna Virgil Jerry Kim all worked for me. I made Yeezus Dark Fantasy Pablo Graduation Throne 808s. I made Runaway Devil in a New Dress Father Stretch. I am the only person to come back to number one after cancellation. There is only one goat. I stand by me My friends call me ye :)."

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