Lemme hit you with a theory I told my brother. Ask yourself why is Joe Budden (pre-beef), Ish, Mal, Math Hoffa, and a host of dusty dudes always on the Drake bandwagon. Drake was the last mainstream rapper they fukked with aesthetically and he allowed them access to younger scenes, parties, hoes etc. He has a flow, had dope beats and was taking money shyt on records. If you were 32 in 2012 he was your last chance to relate to college age kids and fukk young girls.
These guys weren’t trying to hear Cole rap about losing his virginity or Kendrick rap about west coast shyt. Drake was the closest to Jay in terms of shyt talking, and the closest to 50 in terms of sales. And they could bump it while looking for (young) hoes. This also explains why none of these guys like any new rap and complain about the game being down because Drake is down lol.