Why is Pusha T Calling Out Travis Scott?

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• Rap Madness is back for 2025 ‼️ 

• Pusha T is done playing nice 🔥

• Lil Wayne’s son has his own Drake theories 👀 

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Pusha T Has Found a New Target: Travis Scott

On June 16, DJ Hed gave the world a first listen to Clipse’s new track “So Be It”, and it didn’t take long for the internet to start playing Who Got Dissed?™. 

At first, everyone assumed Ye was the unlucky winner, thanks to this suspiciously personal bar:

“You cried in front of me, you died in front of me, Calabasas took ya b*tch and ya pride in front of me…” 

Naturally, with Pusha T recently throwing Ye under a few buses (and then reversing over him), people figured he was going in again. However, when the full song and visuals dropped on June 17, the plot thickened. 

Pusha in the rest of his verse raps that “you cried in front of me, you died in front of me . Calabasas took your b**** and your pride in front of me, Heard Utopia had moved right up the street, And her lip gloss was poppin’, she ain’t need you to eat…” 

The rapper’s call-out of Scott instead of Ye was not exactly subtle. Pusha name-checks Scott’s album, clowns the Kylie Jenner breakup, and serves it all with that signature smirk you can hear through the beat.

Pusha T doubles down on the diss

Here’s where it gets messy. Travis and Pusha haven’t exactly had public beef—no leaked texts, no sub-disses, not even a tense backstage photo. But according to Push, that’s because Travis likes to act like Switzerland...when it suits him.

It all started back in 2023, during a session at Louis Vuitton HQ in Paris (yes, that’s a real sentence). Scott popped in to preview Utopia for Pharrell, Pusha, and Malice. But according to Pusha, things went left real quick.

“…He sees me and Malice there. He's like, ‘Oh, man, everybody's here,’ he's smiling, laughing, jumping around, doing his fucking monkey dance. We weren't into the music, but he wanted to play it, wanted to film [us and Pharrell listening to it]. And then a week later you hear ‘Meltdown,’ which he didn’t play. He played the song, but not [Drake’s verse],” he explained to GQ. 

Pusha then went on to reference when “Like That” was previewed during Future and Metro’s set at Rolling Loud, thanks to encouragement from an over-eager Scott. 

“He was on the [Rolling Loud] stage like, ‘Play that, play that!’ He don't have no picks, no loyalty to nobody. He'll jump around whatever he feels is hot or cling onto whatever he feels is hot. But you can play those games with those people…We're not in your mix. Keep your mix over there,” he said. 

Scott’s antics pissed him off enough to let the choppa sing on what eventually became “So Be It.”

“...Dawg, don't even come over here with that, because at the end of the day, I don't play how y'all play. To me, that really was just like…he's a whore. He's a whore,” he proclaimed. 

Since the drop, Pusha T has been on his own little press tour letting the world know how he feels about Houston’s very own, from print to audio like the NYT Popcast. 

While Scott hasn’t responded to Pusha yet, Mike Dean (one of Scott’s collaborators with production credits on UTOPIA), Tyler, the Creator, and A$AP Rocky have all shown love to the new Clipse track. Shade from Rocky shouldn’t be much of a surprise, considering he called him out years ago for “stealing his flow.”

Whether this feud goes full-blown or ends up on “simmer,” one thing is certain: Pusha T is not done talking. The Clipse comeback is officially messy—and we’re all watching with popcorn in one hand, timeline in the other.

Lil Wayne’s Son is Calling Out Drake

Lil Wayne and Drake go way back — like MySpace days back. According to rap lore, it was 2007 when Wayne first discovered Drizzy online through Jas Prince (son of Houston music mogul J. Prince). By 2009, Drake was officially signed to Young Money, and the rest? Hip-hop history. The duo has teamed up for countless classics, including “Miss Me,” “She Will,” and “The Motto.” Even after Drake wrapped up his Young Money deal, he never stopped showing love to the man who put him on. 

That bond has always seemed unshakable. Now, though, things are getting a little...complicated.

Was Wayne a Drizzy ghostwriter?

In a new interview with TrillMarty, Lil Novi —Wayne’s 15-year-old son — took a detour from promoting his “LIKE WEEZY” remix to stir the pot in a major way. When asked who was the better artist, Lil Wayne or Drake, Novi didn’t just choose his dad. He dropped a ghostwriting bombshell.

“My dad wrote most of [Drake's] shit … I mean, on God. Like, if it wasn’t for my pops, there wouldn’t be no Drake. … I mean, there probably would be a Drake, but he wouldn’t be where he’s at, though … “No disrespect to Drake. He hard,” he said.

Nice save — but the damage was already done.

Some fans brushed off the comment by posting that “he’s just a kid,” “that’s not proof,” “Twitter isn’t court ”— but others weren’t so quick to dismiss it. After all, this isn’t the first time Drake’s pen has been put under the microscope.

There’s the infamous “I’m Single” reference track from Wayne that leaked last year, which had people questioning who was really writing what. Let’s also not forget Drake’s long-rumored list of ghostwriters over the years — from Vory to The Weeknd. If Lil Novi’s claim is proven to be correct, 2025 is going to be another long year for Drizzy. 

• Bruno Mars is hitting Fortnite. He has been officially announced as the Season 9 headliner.

• Kendrick Lamar’s still on a roll. His collab with SZA, “luther,” has topped the Billboard Hip-Hop chart for a record-breaking 25 weeks.

• This NYC mayoral candidate has bars. Zohran Mamdani’s rap past is going viral on social media, along with his six-track EP featuring his friend Abdul Bar Hussein. 

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