Lil Yachty has developed a close bond with Drake over the past few years and has had a front row seat to the 6 God's recent career moves as a collaborator.
Boat stopped by Scandalous podcast with Andrew Schulz on Wednesday (July 31), where he claimed Drake was “really upset” by the Kendrick Lamar feud and managed to tune out the deafening noise and “Not Like Us” trolls coming from the outside world.
“It's still so n—a. Both still that n—a. What will change? Both will do what they do,” he said. “I spoke to him and it didn't bother him. As he shouldn't — he's the type to want. If I had $700 million, you wouldn't be able to talk to me.”
While Yachty still kept in touch with Drake, he was actually overseas in Europe when the battle with Kendrick was at its peak.
“I never saw him down. I never saw him kick his leg with his head down, to the point where I stopped talking to him about it because I felt like I was the one bringing the negativity to him,” Yachty continued around the 1:36 mark.
He continued: “I was bringing the cloud when I was like, 'Man, I hate that this person said that.' I was showing him sh– he hasn't seen. Then I realized I'm bringing you negativity, let me stop. I just realized his energy wasn't down so I wasn't going to try [to bring him down].”
Earlier in the episode, Yachty and the co-hosts discussed why a group of hip-hop fans were “thrilled about Drake's elimination,” as Ye put it in April.
The “Minnesota” rapper speculated that people were tired of Drake and tired of seeing him win and dominate the rap game for over a decade.
“I think people just hate Drake because he's the guy,” he speculated. “It's also because he banished everyone's burdens. So is this guy, though. All the records, all the numbers. He is the one and only.”
However, Lil Yachty regretted getting into the commentary surrounding the beef. “I wish I had never talked about it,” he admitted.
Kendrick Lamar basically names the Atlanta native to take a dig at Drake with the scathing “Euphoria.” “Yachty can't give you no swag, I don't give an af— 'bout who you hangin' with,” Lamar raps on the diss track.
50 Cent had a similar theory to Yachty when it comes to his belief that Drake's rap peers were jealous of his success.
“Look, our culture loves to see you step up because it's validation that they can step up,” he said. The Hollywood Reporter. “But when you stay up — 'I want this sh– forever, man' — they're like, 'Well, dammit. When are you coming down; If you don't go down, I won't have a chance to go up.” And then there are these clouds that come over you, and that cloud is doubt, a shadow of doubt that doesn't come from material or from your work ethic.”
50 continued: “It's doubt from the artist community, where they're like, 'I don't know, his new sh– is cool, but it's not his first sh–.' They do that to you, and Drake is just experiencing what you're experiencing as a reaction from the success, from the consistency he's been given over and over again. I see no loss for Drake. People who bought Drake stuff are going to buy Drake stuff when his next song comes out.”
Drake and Kendrick Lamar traded diss tracks from April to early May. Advertising sign hailed K. Dot as the winner and laughed at “Not Like Us” dominating the Billboard Hot 100, where it sits at No. 3 on this week's chart after spending two straight weeks at No. 1.
Listen to the full podcast below. Drake's pair of segments take place around 51 minutes and 1:33.
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