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They say time heals all wounds. Once upon a time, Snoop Dogg wasn’t messing with Eazy-E’s “Real Muthaphuckkin G’s” diss track against him and Dr. Dre, but now it’s part of his weekly routine.

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Snoop hopped on The Bootleg Kev Podcast earlier this week, where he admitted that “Real Muthaphuckkin G’s” gets plenty of spins over at his Cadillacc Music radio station studio.

“We was busting them upside the head, but when they dropped that motherf–ker, we felt that one,” Snoop said. “Like, the other s–t, we didn’t — but that motherf–ker right there — Eazy was going in on a n—a.”

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He continued to hearing it today: “And that s–t be knocking and you hear me singing it. Motherf–k Dre, motherf–k Snoop, motherf–k Death Row.”

Alongside B.G. Knocc Out and Dresta, Eazy unleashed “Real Muthaphucckin G’s” in 1993, attacking Dre and Snoop for the repeated disses throughout The Chronic and mainly the explosive “F–k Wit Dre Day.”

Snoop admitted “that s–t is so hard,” but he was initially in denial of the record’s status. “F–k them n—-s,” he said of his initial mentality when hearing it.

Unfortunately, Eazy-E would end up dying less than two years later in March 1995 due to HIV/AIDS, one month following his diagnosis.

As for Snoop’s 2024, it’s a busy close-out to the year for the Death Row legend, who reunited with Dr. Dre for their first full-length project since 1993’s Doggystyle, as Missionary arrived Dec. 13. The joint album features a star-studded cast of 50 Cent, Eminem, Sting, Jelly Roll and more.

Listen to the full interview below.

Snoop Dogg has reacted to Drake’s pair of legal actions against Universal Music Group in which he alleges that his label artificially inflated the popularity of Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us.”
The West Coast legend is on a press run in support of his Missionary album with Dr. Dre, and he stopped by The Bootleg Kev Podcast on Tuesday (Dec. 17).

Kev asked Snoop about myriad topics, including his thoughts on Drake’s legal action against his parent label, which Snoop initially offered up a “no comment” before expanding briefly. “On the West, we hold court in the streets,” he said of his policing preference rather than turning to the legal system.

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In November, Drake filed a pair of legal actions, which also alleged that UMG could’ve stopped the release of “Not Like Us,” which he believes defamed him and falsely accused him of being a sex offender. UMG denied Drizzy’s “offensive and untrue” allegations about artificially inflating numbers, telling Billboard at the time, “We employ the highest ethical practices in our marketing and promotional campaigns.”

Elsewhere in the interview, Snoop revealed he spoke to Kendrick Lamar in the weeks since K. Dot expressed his disappointment in one of his mentors on GNX‘s opening track “Wacced Out Murals.” In the midst of Kendrick’s feud with Drake, Snoop reposted Drizzy’s “Taylor Made Freestyle” — which included AI-generated vocals using Snoop’s voice — to Instagram.

“Snoop posted ‘Taylor Made,’ I prayed it was the edibles/ I couldn’t believe it, it was only right for me to let it go,” Lamar raps on the track.

Snoop Dogg quickly apologized and admitted it “was the edibles” and called Lamar the “West West King” shortly after on X.

“He’s a rapper he’s supposed to speak his mind and tell his truth,” Snoop told Bootleg Kev on Tuesday. “I’m his big homebody so I have to take what’s said from his perspective because he’s speaking truth. I’m willing to accept truth when it’s brought to me directly.”

Snoop explained he did a “collaborative post” on Instagram and allegedly didn’t even know what song he was posting. “I’m thinking I’m posting ‘Gin & Juice.’ Then I get the word [Kendrick] didn’t like what you posted,” he added. “Then I deleted it, called nephew and left him a message … Nephew, it’s uncle Snoop, I got the message I apologize I was f–ked up. My bad.”

Watch Snoop’s full interview below.

50 Cent has been one of the rare vocal supporters of Drake during his feud with Kendrick Lamar. The G-Unit boss stopped by Big Boy’s Neighborhood on Monday (Dec. 9), where he broke down the 6 God’s current position in the industry with what feels like the world against him.
While it isn’t exactly the Mean Girls Burn Book, at one point during the interview, 50 — who is known for his trolling — held up a sheet of paper featuring a list of all of Drake’s alleged opps, including names such as TDE affiliates such as Ab-Soul to Kendrick Lamar, Ye and even hoopers such as LeBron James and DeMar DeRozan. According to Vibe, the list is a printout of a 2023 post made by a Drake fan account.

“This is the opp page,” 50 said. “He was just winning consistently more than everybody else in the culture and then these people start to turn into people that feel like they’re opps. All over the page because they keep watching him win. Then you going, ‘I want this thing forever, man.’ I’m not sure you can have it forever.”

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50 Cent explained this further during an interview with Billboard in October, during which he went into detail about how the rap game only wants to see you win for so long.

“I didn’t see where what [Drake] did was wack at any point,” he stated. “They giving [Drake] the, ‘Oh you wack, you finished.’ I’m like, ‘Nah, come on.’ That’s the system trying to make some sort of resistance and it’s from the consistency. When you win consecutively, that part of the hip-hop demographic wants you out of there. I started to feel the resistance for the Curtis album.”

50 also told Big Boy that he knows Drake had more material ready to go, but held back after Lamar didn’t respond to “The Heart Part 6” and “Not Like Us” began to form the tidal wave that would crash the entire rap game.

“They was loaded again. Drake was loaded ready to go again,” he continued. “I know they had new material ready to go again. There’s no way you stop and you losing? Nah, I gotta fix it.”

The Queens icon isn’t one to mince his words, so in addition to the Drake-Kendrick feud, he also talked about Drizzy’s legal action against Universal Music Group and plenty more. Watch the full interview below.

The fallout from the Drake and Kendrick Lamar war continues. Mustard called out longtime OVO producer Boi-1da for allegedly trashing West Coast music, and the Cali native posted receipts of their alleged past conversations to his Instagram Story on Monday (Dec. 9). “West Coast music is a–,” the Toronto producer allegedly wrote in a DM […]

Drake made an appearance on Canadian streamer xQc’s livestream on Sunday night (Nov. 24), and the 6 God didn’t hold back on a multitude of topics. At one point in the stream, Steve Lacy’s Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hit “Bad Habit” was playing, and Drake seemingly shaded the artist. “This guy’s like a fragile […]

On a monumental night for the Toronto Raptors and the team’s former star Vince Carter, the biggest news was about someone in the stands: Drake.
The hometown rapper and Toronto Raptors global ambassador sat courtside for the halftime retirement ceremony of Carter’s number Saturday night (Nov. 2), and joined TSN commentators Matt Devlin and Jack Armstrong for the broadcast of the game between the Raptors and Sacramento Kings.

After insisting the broadcast get a shot of fellow Toronto artist Jessie Reyez, Drake took some shots at his former friend DeMar DeRozan. The former Raptors star who now plays for the Kings appeared in the video for Kendrick Lamar’s Drake diss track “Not Like Us.”

Drake acknowledged the importance of Carter, the first Raptors player to have his jersey retired in Toronto, but said “unfortunate we’re playing this goof tonight,” referring to DeRozan.

Later, he said “If you ever put up a DeRozan banner, I’ll go up there and pull it down myself.”

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Drake violating Demar Derozan while commentating the game “If you ever put up a DeRozan banner, I’ll go up there & pull it down myself.” Called homeboy a “Goof” 😭😭 pic.twitter.com/Mo38Y5sicb— DJ Akademiks (@Akademiks) November 3, 2024

In a post-game media scrum, a reporter asked the Sacramento Kings star about Drake’s comment. “He’s going to have a long way to climb,” he quipped. “Tell him good luck.” Then, he abruptly got up and left the podium.

DeRozan appeared in the music video for his hometown Compton rapper Kendrick Lamar’s hit “Not Like Us,” which included many veiled and overt shots at Drake. He also danced onstage during the performance of the song at Kendrick’s hometown Pop Out concert .

It seemed like the former Raptor had chosen his side in the Drake-Kendrick feud, but he later told the Sacramento Bee that he and Drake were still on good terms. “Drake’s still my man,” he said . “None of it changed.”

Apparently Drake doesn’t feel the same way.

It was a special night for the Raptors, who retired the number of its first franchise superstar Vince Carter. Carter played for the team from 1998 to 2004, and put the city on the basketball map. His electrifying dunks made him a global culture phenomenon. He was an investor in Toronto’s first nightclub with bottle service, and brought many celebrities to the city.

Carter and the team had a bitter breakup, and many fans never forgave him until recently. But his influence remains undeniable. Some have argued the popularity of Carter paved the way for stars like Drake to make an international impact from Toronto.

Carter gave a shoutout to Drake during his speech and relayed a story that he once threw his armband to him at a Raptors game when the rapper was a teenager. “How about that?” he said. “A freaking icon here that I threw my armband to! See I be knowing.”

Drake’s appearances at Raptors games are less frequent than they used to be, but he still has a way of making headlines every time he’s there.

Just about every aspect of Kendrick Lamar and Drake’s artistry has been picked apart over the course of the months since their explosive feud in the second quarter of the year. As a hip-hop savant, RZA stopped by Complex, where he talked about the battle and whether he could see a possible reconciliation down the line between Kendrick and Drizzy, with the 55-year-old comparing the foes lyrically.
“Yeah, it just takes time,” he said. “First of all, Kendrick is the natural lyricist, and Drake is a trained lyricist. You could train a fighter and he could be good. Then you got those natural fighters who also then go through training. So that’s a different chamber there. And while Drake got bars forever, Kendrick’s bars’ potency was stronger.”

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The Wu-Tang Clan frontman believes Drake may have underrated K. Dot’s rapping ability coming into the battle.

“The battle bar-for-bar was something that was just not good advising on Drake’s camp in the sense of just getting in that fight without really taking some more training for that,” he added. “When Kendrick wrote the letter to his son or his daughter and to his [mother], Kendrick is going to come like that. Nas, Kendrick, Eminem, Raekwon, certain people are going to break your s–t down to the element.”

However, RZA made sure to give Drake his flowers as one of hip-hop’s trailblazers in the 21st century, crediting him with pushing the genre melodically and raising the next generation.

“[Drake] expanded it with his melodies and he raised a generation too, and you can’t take that away from him. And these two were at the top of the pinnacle at the end of the day. Nas and Jay-Z, that’s another good example, but it was tough,” RZA continued. “It took years for them to swallow that pill and then come and shake hands on it. So hopefully it is not the same. Hopefully this generation can take it as fun like how the beginning generation took it more for fun.”

As far as RZA’s music goes in his own decorated career, he returned in August to release his classical collaborative project called A Ballet Through Mud, which he crafted alongside Australian conductor Christopher Dragon and the Colorado Symphony. 

J. Cole offered up his response to ducking the Kendrick Lamar and Drake feud with his “Port Antonio” track last week, which sparked plenty of debate on X and other social media platforms. One person not feeling Cole’s reply was Joe Budden, who ripped into the Dreamville boss during the Oct. 13 Joe Budden Podcast episode for his alleged lack of accountability when it came to the “big three” and the Drake and Kendrick Lamar beef that he played a role in.
“What do you mean you finally free? That dismisses all accountability from the part that he has played in the big three debacle,” Budden stated on his show. “What do you mean you finally free as if you never wanted parts of the big three conversation? That is a load of crap and I’m not going to let you n—-s just piss on me and tell me it’s raining. Get the f–k out of here.”

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But he wasn’t done there. “Don’t pop back up and say, ‘If I would’ve I could’ve, but then I would’ve lost a [bro].’ N—a, no, not over ‘Dead Presidents.’ You ever heard ‘Dead Presidents?’” the rapper-turned-podcaster continued. “The n—a was holding his man’s hands at the hospital bed saying, ‘I’m going to kill them n—-s for you.’ Get the f–k out of here with this soft s–t. I hate this soft hip-hop s–t. It’s soft.”

Budden’s caveat being that Cole is rapping at an exceptionally high level, but the points are made separate of each other.

It’s been just more than six months since J. Cole initially jabbed at Kendrick with his “7 Minute Drill” diss track in April, before taking the stage at his Dreamville Festival days later and apologizing.

Budden compared the move to a UFC fighter throwing a punch and leaving the ring seconds later. “He did get in the octagon and do it,” he said on his podcast. “And climbed out. If we saw it in a UFC fight, we’d laugh at the n—a… He don’t get to come in and repurpose some s–t and reframe what we forgot about.”

Cole opens up about the feud with added perspective on “Port Antonio,” which arrived Oct. 9, claiming he wouldn’t have lost the battle, but lost “a bro.”

“I pulled the plug because I seen where that was ’bout to go/ They wanted blood, they wanted clicks to make they pockets grow/ They see this fire in my pen and think I’m dodging smoke/ I wouldn’t have lost a battle, dog, I woulda lost a bro/ I woulda gained a foe,” he raps.

Cole then even showed love to Drake while looking to inspire him to keep his head up. “They say I’m pickin’ sides, don’t you lie on me, my n—a to start another war/ Ay, Drake, you’ll always be my n—a/ I ain’t ashamed to say you did a lot for me, my n—a/ F–k all the narratives/ Tapping back into your magic pen is what’s imperative,” he rhymes.

Watch the episode below. The J. Cole discussion starts around the 37-minute mark.