Drake is Finally Responding to the Hate

Benny The Butcher’s new mixtape, Buffalo Butch Vol. 1 (which featured a collaboration with Drake), has been pulled from streaming services. In other news: 

• Billboard Hot 100 📈

• Drake is back with another trio of songs 🎧

• Karrahbooo and Lil Yachty are throwing shots online 👀

• Industry Insights 🔎

Billboard Hot 100

The above chart shows Billboard’s Hot 100 ranking for this week. The Hot 100 ranks songs based on streaming activity, radio airplay audience impressions, and sales data—all measured by Luminate.

“Not Like Us” was knocked out of the top three by the new Bruno Mars and Lady Gaga collab “Die With A Smile.” “Million Dollar Baby” and “Like That” continue dropping down the charts. Meanwhile, despite Drake’s “It’s Up” hitting #28 last week, it has dropped down below Glorilla’s “TGIF” to #46.

Drake Finally Addresses the Haters in His New Three-Pack

In true sneak disser fashion, Drake has been posting more and more from his (no-so-private) finsta @plottttwistttttt. Despite fans still shuffling through the “100 GIGS” drop from the beginning of August, Drizzy has decided that there could never be too much of him for people to enjoy. On August 23, he dropped even more archived footage from his career and three new songs. 

Drake is back with more surprises

He released “Circadian Rhythm,” an unreleased Playboi Carti collab called “No Face,” and the controversial “Supersoak (SOD).” The last song was already making waves before its official drop due to Drake taking Lil Yachty off the track. Drake and Carti have collaborated before on “Pain 1993,” so fans were excited to hear the new heat that’s gotten the Lil Wayne stamp of approval. 

On the song, he immediately came for the necks of everyone who had much to say about him this year. 

“N***** got lit off the features I skated on, I gotta know, I gotta know, how you get lit off the n**** you hatin' on, Numbers untouchable, they got the data wrong, This is the moment I know they been prayin' on,” he raps on the song. 

On “Circadian Rhythm” (the sequel to 2013’s “The Language,” AKA Drake’s response to Kendrick Lamar’s “Control” verse), he aims specifically at K Dot. the blatant winner of their 2024 rap beef.

“How many quotes I wrote? How much gold I struck? Ayy, How many funeral dates they plan for me and I dodged it like the truck,” he spits. 

Drizzy is allegedly referencing both “The Pop Out” show in June and K. Dot’s diss track “6:16 in L.A.” (specifically the lyrics “I know this type of power is gon' cost, But I live in circadian rhythms of a shooting star,”).

When Drake discusses therapy in “No Face,” fans picked up that K. Dot may already have a response in “Meet the Grahams.”

Rather than just taking the L and continuing to cosplay a Texas Ranger, Drake seems to be preparing for another battle. He posted (and, of course, deleted) a video of Rasheed Wallace saying, “We will win Game 2.” 

Regardless of whose side you are on, one thing is for sure – Drake is pulling out anything at this point to try to move past the Compton combat he fell victim to. 

Karrahbooo Responds to Lil Yachty’s Crash Out 

What was the final trigger causing Lil Yachty to let the choppa sing on Karrahbooo? Red Lobster. 

An employee from the chain restaurant posted about meeting Karrahbooo, and the rapper allegedly told them that she was kicked out of Concrete Boys and that they were bullying her. 

After the post went viral, Lil Yachty didn’t hold back anymore. On August 22, he went on an IG Live rant and revealed all of his issues with her, from her alleged $900,000 debt to her actually being the group's bully. 

Despite originally saying at the end of July that he had “nothing negative to say about Karrah. I wish her the best in her career,” he changed his tune. However, Karrahbooo wasn’t going to let her former Concrete Boys leader drag her name through the mud. 

Karrahbooo gets her lick back

In an Instagram story on August 24, she circled the streaming numbers of her two songs, “Running Late” and “WHERE YO DADDY?” with a message of her own. 

“Put it on yo kid that I ain’t write these songs miles … stop the cap and leave me out of your internet shenanigans … stop bullying me big dawg, I never said nothing u letting random fans get in yo head man up,” she said in her post. 

While she didn’t point out the freestyle that Yachty said that he wrote for her, she still had more to say that day. 

Performing at Pepsi Dig In Day in Chicago, Karrahbooo asked the crowd, “Who ain’t write it? Who ain’t write it?” when performing “Running Late” live. 

Their beef is only getting uglier, with Lil Yachty posting on August 25 to not “throw rocks and then hide your hand.” 

Karrahbooo, unlike Lil Boat, decided to address him directly, stating that she “will never be the same” and that she “never threw rocks and u have my number u big grown b**** leave me alone literally.” 

Karrahbooo’s support system online is only growing as she gears up for a tour with Latto later this fall and as more people start to think that Lil Yachty is in the wrong.

“That Instagram Live also showed why Lil Yachty had no business running his own label in the first place. He tanked that shit in 6 minutes,” X user LeeSince95 said in an August 22 post.

Despite the seriousness of the situation, social media has continued to do what it does best—make fun of everything. 

“Don't let that n**** lil yachty give you a mcchicken that n**** gon tell errbody,” X user Rafa said in an August 22 post. 

Nevertheless, Lil Yachty and Karrahbooo’s beef seems to be just getting started, and who knows how it will affect the Concrete Boys overall. 

• Jay-Z has some new platinum to add to his collection. Multiple records from the rapper are now multiple-times platinum, like “Run This Town,” which hit six times platinum.

• OutKast doesn’t play about trademark infringement. They are suing the EDM duo ATLiens over using their trademarked term as their stage name. 

• Kid Cudi is letting THE SCOTTS go. He confirmed that the fan dream collab album with Travis Scott is officially scrapped and there’s “so much to see and hear.”  

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