Not just the beef but overall as far as career and everything. Drake has managed to have the hit making skills and superstar status. Push on the other hand has the coke raps, the executive position, the career longevity and other things.
Both men have been on record as being great admirers of his, have done songs along side him, rapped over the instrumentals of his songs, and even flipped his lines (even in their beef).
Drake refusing to fully address Pusha for years is not only similar to what Jay does but in a nutshell the advice Jay gave directly to Drake on "light up". To actually lose it and go after Pusha directly is actually pretty similar to what Takeover was.
Pusha on the other hand not only used Jay lines from "the prelude" on "infrared" (That were flipped back on him on "Duppy") but Pusha's "Story of Adidon" was over Jay's "Story of OJ".
Pusha finding and using a photo of Drake is like the summer jam photo but actually way more effective and damaging. Drake's whole "holla at me when you multi million" is basically his "I got money stacks bigger than you" "I sold what your whole album sold in my first week" type line. All the "you act like you sold coke for Escobar in the 80s" "there's no malice in your heart you'r an approachable dude" is like Jay's "there's only so long fake thugs can pretend" or even "he never sold aspirin how he Escobar". "I had your microphone but the signature faded..." is kinda like "yeah I sampled your voice you was using it wrong" where Drake and Jay underplay and flip their own fandom for their respective opponents.
Maybe the better question is why doesn't Nas have the same type of emulation and influence over as many artists despite winning the beef, having a longer run that started out more successful, having influenced and inspired Jay himself, still being here and being an absolute legend, etc
Both men have been on record as being great admirers of his, have done songs along side him, rapped over the instrumentals of his songs, and even flipped his lines (even in their beef).
Drake refusing to fully address Pusha for years is not only similar to what Jay does but in a nutshell the advice Jay gave directly to Drake on "light up". To actually lose it and go after Pusha directly is actually pretty similar to what Takeover was.
Pusha on the other hand not only used Jay lines from "the prelude" on "infrared" (That were flipped back on him on "Duppy") but Pusha's "Story of Adidon" was over Jay's "Story of OJ".
Pusha finding and using a photo of Drake is like the summer jam photo but actually way more effective and damaging. Drake's whole "holla at me when you multi million" is basically his "I got money stacks bigger than you" "I sold what your whole album sold in my first week" type line. All the "you act like you sold coke for Escobar in the 80s" "there's no malice in your heart you'r an approachable dude" is like Jay's "there's only so long fake thugs can pretend" or even "he never sold aspirin how he Escobar". "I had your microphone but the signature faded..." is kinda like "yeah I sampled your voice you was using it wrong" where Drake and Jay underplay and flip their own fandom for their respective opponents.
Maybe the better question is why doesn't Nas have the same type of emulation and influence over as many artists despite winning the beef, having a longer run that started out more successful, having influenced and inspired Jay himself, still being here and being an absolute legend, etc
