Drake and Pusha-T’s beef wages on. After Drake called out Kanye West for providing Pusha with the intel for his diss track “The Story of Adidon,” the G.O.O.D. Music president is firing back with his own shocking revelation. During an interview with Joe Budden’s podcast on Spotify, Pusha reveals that it was through Drake’s right-hand man and longtime producer Noah “40” Shebib—and not Kanye—that he was able to obtain the information. A woman 40 was sleeping with informed Pusha that 40 was “disgruntled,” and disclosed personal details about Drake’s son and his career. “The information came from 40,” revealed Pusha. “It didn’t come from Kanye at all. 40 is sleeping with a woman who begins to—he talks to her daily, five, six hours a day, provides opportunity for, and ultimately speaks about how he’s disgruntled about certain things, notoriety and things involving Drake and his career so on and so forth. With that also came the fact that Drake has a child, with that also came the trip that everybody took to go see the child and bring him gifts—all of this information. She divulged this information. That’s where it came from.” He also defended Kanye, saying that he didn’t get the information from him. “I never told nobody that. I never said that to anybody. And I never put that out there,” said Push. “It was so much power in silence, number one, number two, I was being spiteful.” Kanye went on to apologize to Drake for “stepping on his release date,” but denied giving Pusha the intel for his diss. “You [Kanye] apologizing? What are you apologizing for, sir? You didn’t give me nothing,” said Push. “You didn’t give me anything in regards to aiding in this drama. What are you apologizing about? You shouldn’t have done that.” Pusha decided to speak out following Drake’s recent comments about 40 on LeBron James’ HBO show “The Shop.” The Canadian producer, who is battling multiple sclerosis, was one of Pusha’s targets on “The Story of Adidon.” “Only reason I’m here now is because [Drake] was so passionate about the whole MS thing,” said Push. “They did the backlight and they put the spotlight on his face… But your friend is the reason why. That’s how it came about. That narrative needs to die. It’s done.” He also called out Rap-A-Lot Records CEO J Prince, who claimed that he diffused the situation and convinced Drake not to release a response. “I let them run with all these narratives. Even the J Prince thing. I don’t know J Prince. He did a whole book tour on the back of like, I squashed this. All these false narratives are fueling and covering up, we just had a battle and you came up on the short end of the stick of it. “To me, I’ve been stacking up Ws for a minute in regards to this,” he continued. “The shots thrown at Ye after the fact is a W for me. Going to sit with LeBron and Maverick four months later talking about this shit. That’s a W for me.” He insists Drake was planning to release an adidas line named after his son Adonis. “She knew all of this. She divulged all of this information. I didn’t get it from him or them.” As for 40, he says he knows what he did. “He gon’ see this and know, bruh…Pillowtalkin’ kills everybody. He gotta keep that lying face on, bro. He’s not gonna admit to it, probably to them. He knows exactly who this is. He knows exactly what I’m talking about right now. He’s going to. I couldn’t live with myself without him knowing this in him. He has to live with this.” But Drake tells a different story. During his talk with LeBron and Maverick, he claims he went to record with Kanye in Wyoming, where he played him “March 14” and showed him a photo of his “secret” son and revealed personal details about his baby mother. “I tell him I’m having trouble with my son’s mother. We had a conversation,” said Drake. Soon after, Kanye announced the release dates for his album ye, as well as Pusha-T, Kids See Ghosts, Nas, and Teyana Taylor, which were all around the same time as Scorpion‘s June release. “This was a manipulative I wanna break you thing. So I said alright. I’m gonna go back to distancing myself again,” said Drake. “Then the first album drops and of course, there’s a diss song towards me [Pusha’s ‘Infrared]’ that you produced that’s talking about writing. I was just there with you as friends helping you and now you’re dissing me. This is dark. It took me four days to really register what had happened.” He also says that he had a response ready, but decided against releasing it. “I did and I said terrible things. I got home and I just listened back to it and I was like, ‘Man, this is not something I ever wanna be remembered for. This is not even a place that I necessarily even wanna go. '”<doc-sep>The missed opportunity to flood the streets with diss tracks is an outrage. Somehow—we know how—the Pusha-T and Drake beef conversation rages on. Following Drake’s appearance on HBO's The Shop, during which he revealed to LeBron James that Kanye West divulged information about his estranged son to Pusha, Pusha stopped by the Joe Budden Podcast to clear the air once more. Turns out, it was not Kanye West who gave him the information, but Drake’s producer 40. “The information [regarding Drake’s son] came from 40. It didn’t come from Kanye, at all,” Pusha said. “40 is sleeping with a woman, he talks to her daily ... Ultimately speaks about how he’s disgruntled about certain things involving Drake and his career. With that also came the fact that Drake has a child.” So there we have it, again. Noah “40” Shebib is the snake in the grass, not Mr. West, apparently. But here’s the thing about this situation: stop doing interviews, and write a song. Beef is meant to play out on wax, not on podcasts. Yes, Pusha-T is smart to rebut Drake’s interview with one of his own, but hip-hop would be all the better if these two stopped talking to their "friends" and started booking studio time. At this point, the beef is devolving into petty gossip and media theatrics, when we could all be treated to a series of fantastic diss songs all the way into 2019. The missed opportunity to flood the streets with new music is an outrage—one we should not stand for. Pusha, please, just put it on wax. For more sponsored hip-hop video content like this, subscribe to the ADM YouTube channel here.<doc-sep>Getty Images One of the biggest hip-hop stories of 2018 remains the revelation that Drake apparently had a son in secret. Pusha T first dug up the dirt and aired it out on his vicious dis track "The Story of Adidon" back in May, rapping, "We talkin' character, let me keep with the facts / You are hiding a child, let that boy come home / Deadbeat mothafucka playin' border patrol, ooh / Adonis is your son and he deserves more than an Adidas press run, that's real." Drake seemed to confirm the allegations on his album Scorpion the following month, stating on the melancholy "Emotionless" that, "I wasn't hidin' my kid from the world / I was hidin' the world from my kid." But one of the lingering questions from this entire saga remains where exactly Pusha got his intel from. Signs potentially pointed to Kanye, who produced Pusha's DAYTONA album earlier this year (and who's long been engaged in a cold war of sorts with Drake), but 'Ye denied it in a tweetstorm in September. Pusha himself appeared on Joe Budden's podcast on Wednesday (October 17) to lay the matter to rest, admitting that his information came from Noah "40" Shebib, Drake's trusted collaborator and co-founder of OVO Sound. "The information came from 40. It didn't come from Kanye at all," Pusha said. "40 is sleeping with a woman, he talks to her daily five or six hours a day, provides opportunity for... and ultimately speaks about how he's disgruntled about certain things. Notoriety and things involving Drake and his career, so on and so forth. With that also came the fact that Drake has a child. With that also came the trip that everybody took to go see the child and bring him gifts and all this information. She divulged this information. That's where it came from." Pusha's claim comes after Drake's recent admission that he'd recorded a dis track aimed at Pusha after "The Story of Adidon" but left it on the cutting-room floor. Of course, there's enough to delve into on "Duppy Freestyle," the shot Drake fired after Pusha’s initial dis, "Infrared," that ignited this entire beef. Interestingly, on "Adidon," Pusha also directs some of his ire at 40 himself, who suffers from multiple sclerosis. "OVO 40, hunched over like he 80, tick, tick, tick / How much time he got? That man is sick, sick, sick," he raps. You can hear the whole conversation in context, and much more, by listening to the entire episode below. And if you need a refresher, listen to "The Story of Adidon" above — then maybe go for a walk outside.<doc-sep>
Pusha T did not learn the news of rapper Drake's secret son from Kanye West like it was previously speculated. Instead, the information was shared with the rapper indirectly from Noah "40" Shebib, who is the co-founder of Drake's OVO record label. Pusha T revealed Drake's secret son to the world in a diss track, "The Story of Adidon," in May. A woman Shebib was dating told Pusha T about Drake's child, Pusha T claimed on The Joe Budden Podcast Wednesday. "The information came from 40, it didn't come from Kanye," Pusha T explained. "40 is sleeping with a woman who begins to, you know, he talks to her daily, five, six hours a day. Provides an opportunity for her and ultimately speaks about how he's disgruntled about certain things, notoriety and things involving Drake and his career. With that also came the fact that Drake has a child, with that, also came the trip everybody took to see the child and bring him gifts and all of this information. She divulged this information. That's where it came from." In a conversation on The Shop on Saturday, Drake said he expected the information about his son to come out in the Pusha T track. "I'm gonna tell you something, I knew something was gonna come up about my kid," he said. "They had to add the deadbeat dad thing to make it more appealing, which is fine. The mom and dad thing...Whatever. You don't even know my family." The Toronto rapper also claimed he had a comeback to Pusha T, but he chose not to release it because it was below him. "I got home, listened back to it, and I was like, 'Man, this is not something I ever want to be remembered for. This is not even a place I necessarily want to go,'" he said. "The song, I thought, was trash, but it was a hell of a chess move." More than anger over the mention of his child, Drake said a line was crossed when Pusha T referenced Shebib's Multiple Sclerosis in the diss track. A line in the song reads "OVO 40, hunched over like he 80, tick, tick, tick. How much time he got? That man is sick, sick, sick." "Wishing death upon my friend who has MS — I study rap battles for a living," Drake said Saturday. "When you mention defenseless people who are sick in the hospital, who have passed away, I just believe that there's a price you have to pay for that. It's over! Someone's gonna f****** punch you in the f****** face." Drake said unknown to some fans, there are lines that should not be crossed in rap battles. "Rap purists and people who love confrontation, they love to say, ' There are no rules to this s***!' There are f****** rules to this s***."