Common recalls Drizzy’s pops intervening in their feud
Common and Drake once found themselves briefly on the opposite sides of the battle field in the early 2010s after the latter began a romantic relationship with the former’s ex Serena Williams.
During a recent sit-down on Drink Champs along with producer Pete Rock, Common revealed that Drizzy’s dad Dennis Graham pushed them to burry the hatchet at the 2012 Grammy Awards.
“I eventually saw Drake face to face,” the Chicago rapper recounted. “It was at a point where I was like, ‘Wassup?’ And we had little words.
“And then his father was there and was like, ‘Y’all need to squash this.’ And I was like, ‘Man, this an elder talking to me. This this man’s father. Let me chill out.’ And then Drake just was like, ‘I ain’t on this.’ So we just squashed it.”
He added, “I was like, ‘Listen, if we face to face, then aight, I’m done with it. Even if it was some subliminal disses, I said what I had to say. Right now, we saying we squashing it. We good.’”
The Drake and Kendrick Lamar rap feud was the biggest in more than a decade for the rap community. The feud included more than 8 diss tracks exchanged between the two over the span of a month.
But at one point Drake and Kendrick were collaborators and even toured together. In 2011 Drake gave Kendrick Lamar an enormous recognition boost by featuring him on his wildly popular 2011 album, Take Care, which won Drake his first Grammy Award, winning Best Rap Album.
Following the success of Drake’s Take Care album, a tour of North America was planned. Joining him for opening acts on the tour included up and coming rappers Kendrick Lamar and A$AP Rocky.
The tour’s name spun off from the 2011 song “Club Paradise“, a promotional single released ahead of the release of Take Care, which, in turn, borrowed its name from a strip club in Toronto.
The very popular and attended 2012 concerts would aid in breaking Kendrick Lamar and A$AP Rocky into the rap game and to an audience that might not have known them otherwise. Due to the large demand and tickets selling out in minutes in multiple locations, extra tour dates were even added to the itinerary, which included a second leg across the United States.
The tour became a commercial success, grossing $42 million in the tour’s duration. It was the highest-grossing hip-hop tour of 2012, according to Pollstar‘s annual year end tour chart.
Drake and Kendrick Lamar at a ‘Club Paradise’ show in 2012
At the Finale of the North American Club Paradise show, Drake gave Kendrick and Rocky praise and doubled down on bringing them on tour with him.
“There are people like you who are well-versed in who those guys are, but there’s people that will get out there and be like, what the f*ck was this? And maybe three years from now they’ll be like, damn, I was there for that moment. … I don’t want to do some big arena tour like, let’s go me J. Cole and Wiz Khalifa, Big Sean, cuz that’s what’s going to sell right now, those guys all have albums out. … And it’s really me giving Rocky and Kendrick a chance to say, I’m bringing you out, do with it what you will. You take it to the moon from here, congratulations, because we’ll be immortalized in this moment.“
Does this change or shift your perspective of the current feud between Kendrick and Drake now?
If you want to catch up on all of the background and timeline of the Drake and Kendrick feud, this article by V101.9 is very in depth and accurate.
