Defending Drake in at the moment’s hip-hop local weather is a courageous factor to do. Ever because the battle between the Toronto native and Kendrick Lamar, lots of people have labeled him as public enemy primary. However quite a lot of his die-hard followers have caught with him, together with some artists as properly.
One of many latter contains Dreamville OG Bas, who gave his “two cents” in response to one other scathing Drake rant from Ebro. The latter vented his frustrations with The Boy nonetheless conserving conversations across the beef alive in 2025. He felt inclined to hold forth after his podcast cohosts requested him if he’d be invited to an occasion about The 6ix God.
Due to his critiques, he did not assume he could be allowed to, which appeared to be the crux of his explosion. “We’re speaking about one thing that we love and care about. I am not simply speaking about feedback and followers and f*cking trolls and all this different silly a*s sh*t. And even throughout the entire rollout — and I hate going again to the meat — however guess who retains bringing the f*cking beef up? Who mentioned we wasn’t gonna be speaking about this this summer time? However guess what the f*ck we’re speaking about, man? So, we’re not purported to convey that up both? We’re simply purported to ignore, we’re purported to act like these items do not occur since you’re fashionable? Come on man, that is wack.”
Drake & Ebro
This led Bas to come back to Drake’s protection, arguing how important he’s to the sport. “Drake is among the many most, if not essentially the most, inclusive of artists our tradition has put forth. Pushed numerous rappers to the forefront, dancehall artists, afrobeats artists, R&B artists, reggaeton, older artists, newer artists and so forth.”
The Melanchronica artist concluded, “He’s arguably the best author of a era. So what’s it?” This appears to be the half that did not sit properly with of us on-line as a result of Bas is standing by what he mentioned.
Within the authentic remark he left, he emphasised that it was certainly “controversial” not particular. “I mentioned arguably, dot is a part of that argument. As is [J.] Cole,” he wrote as well as.
Nevertheless, those that disagree with him did not catch this. So, Bas is again to ensure he makes his level clear one final time. In his response to an X person who wrote, “Bro thinks Drake is the perfect lyricist of all time [skull emoji],” he says, “I’m solely going to deal with this as soon as, solely as a result of y’all actually wrestle with studying comprehension. Learn it very slowly. Do you see that phrase “arguably” okay, run go look it up in a dictionary. Now, should you don’t assume he’s within the argument, conform to disagree.”