It was the end of May when all of the Pusha T and Drake stuff went down. Drake fell into Pusha’s trap – or something – and Drake released “Duppy Freestyle” as a reaction to Pusha’s “Infrared.” That was when Pusha released the diss track “Story of Adidon,” which pretty much destroyed Drake’s public image in several different ways. Pusha told the world that Drake had a son (Adidon) and that Drake barely acknowledged the boy and… well, it was all shady and brutal in about a million different ways. In the time that’s passed, people were waiting for Drake to respond to Pusha with another diss track. It didn’t happen. Instead, Drake got a little bit sanctimonious about the “circus” and then he started pushing all of these stories to TMZ about how of course he spends time with his son, who might not even be his because “sources” claim Drake still hasn’t taken a paternity test. It was weak, to say the least.

Then last week, J. Prince spoke to Vulture. J. Prince is the CEO of Rap-a-Lot Records and a close friend/mentor to Drake. J. Prince claimed that he told Drake to stand down in the beef with Pusha, because there would be too much collateral damage. J. Prince claimed that Drake did have a response to Pusha – a response that came from offering $100K for information about Pusha’s personal life – but that J. Prince and other people convinced Drake to not release it. Here’s part of what J. Prince said:

“After speaking with Kanye, I spoke with the brother, and he didn’t want this. I saw this going to a place that I feel would have ended his career if Drake would’ve put out this song that he had on him… And definitely would’ve hurt families and we’re not in it for that. That’s not Drake’s character to tear a man down to that extent. The ingredients was overwhelming. I know for a fact that it would have been bad for Kanye and my man,” he said of the track. “It just wouldn’t be good. It’s beyond music at that point. It’s going to affect the livelihood. It’s going to interfere with his whole lifestyle from that moment.”

[From Vulture]

Kanye West said that he wasn’t interested in the beef either, so what I come away with is this: one, this was always about Pusha and Drake and their long-simmering beef; two, that Drake and his people want you to know that they had dirty sh-t on Pusha and it’s only because Drake is so magnanimous and “adult” that he is canceling the beef; three, that Pusha really scared the bejesus out of Drake, so much so that that rap godfathers and rap elders were, like, getting involved and having meetings about this sh-t.

Anyway, Pusha has a new interview in Vanity Fair where he says the beef is over now too. This is a Beef Truce now officially.

Pusha T has called time on his beef with Drake saying, as far he is concerned, “it’s all over.” The DAYTONA rapper spoke to Vanity Fair in an interview published on June 7. When asked if he planned to continue with his “surgical summer,” Pusha said: “These conversations have been had and, to my knowledge, it’s all over. It’s all over with.”

Shortly after Pusha T dropped “The Story Of Adidon, both Kanye West and Drake-affiliate J Prince suggested the war of words had come to an end. Speaking about what he has taken from the high-profile clash, Pusha said: “I don’t know what was lost or what was gained,” before adding that he is “ready to be back to the music for real. Just feeding my base, that’s it. That’s the most important thing to me at all times.”

[From The Fader]

And so ends the beef. It was entertaining for a week before everything fizzled out. What did we really learn? We learned that Pusha is good at setting traps. We learned that Drake underestimates his contemporaries. We learned that men are just as petty as women, if not moreso. We learned that Drake has a son and he was going to use his son to sell shoes. I think we also learned that Pusha ended up winning, right?

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