{"id":336496,"date":"2019-12-27T06:26:01","date_gmt":"2019-12-27T14:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=336496"},"modified":"2021-10-31T20:09:57","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T03:09:57","slug":"drake-uses-nate-diaz-comparison-when-reflecting-on-beef-with-pusha-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/nate-diaz\/drake-uses-nate-diaz-comparison-when-reflecting-on-beef-with-pusha-t\/","title":{"rendered":"Drake uses Nate Diaz comparison when reflecting on beef with Pusha T"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drake has had his fair share of beef with A-list celebrities. One that takes centre stage is Drake&#8217;s ongoing beef with rapper and Kanye West&#8217;s homie, Pusha T. Their feud culminated in a diss track called <em>The Story of Adidon<\/em>, released by Pusha T in 2018. The song took aim at the Canadian rapper&#8217;s behaviour and claimed that he has a secret love child.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Rap Radar, Drake reflected on that &#8220;checkmate&#8221; at the hands of Pusha T, and even compared his loss to the career of UFC star Nate Diaz.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I tip my hat to the chess move,&#8221; Drake said. &#8220;It was a genius play in the game of chess and definitely warranted my first &#8216;loss&#8217; in the sport of rapping. By choice, obviously, because I bowed out after realising the gap between us allowed for him to drop a bomb on the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Drake revealed he was working on a diss-track response, but he sights a large gap in the popularity of both rappers as contributing to the decision to bow out.<\/p>\n<p>Also in The Story of Adidon diss track, Pusha-T <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Xcta-ROw8JM\">mocked the OVO star&#8217;s terminally ill sound producer, Noah \u201c40\u201d Shebib<\/a>. Drake found this crossed a certain line and was another contributing factor that lead him to pull out of the fued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a sport at the end of the day, and you know from a very early point, I\u2019ve never shied away from defending myself,&#8221; Drake said. &#8220;And I\u2019m also sometimes eager to engage if I feel that you want to be slick or be offensive behind the scenes. I might choose to address it in music.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And, you know, that was how I ended myself up in the Pusha [T] situation, which, you know&#8230; some of my favorite fighters in the world, take a guy like Nate Diaz,&#8221; Drake added. &#8220;You look at his record. It might not look like the craziest record, but you know, he\u2019s still one of my favorite fighters, he\u2019s still a dog.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That\u2019s just the sport of fighting. Somebody\u2019s gonna catch you at some point unless you\u2019re Floyd [Mayweather] pretty much. But for the rest of us, you\u2019re gonna get rocked one time by something you didn\u2019t expect. So that\u2019s just kinda how I chalk that situation up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Do you think Drake and Nate Diaz share similarities in their stories?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPENN.com<\/i><\/span><\/a><i> on 12\/27\/2019.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drake has had his fair share of beef with A-list celebrities. One that takes centre stage is Drake&#8217;s ongoing beef with rapper and Kanye West&#8217;s homie, Pusha T. Their feud culminated in a diss track called The Story of Adidon, released by Pusha T in 2018. 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