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Going back to back drake12/27/2022 For starters, he says Drake is a “deadbeat mothafucka, playin’ border patrol” when it comes to his alleged son. Pusha thinks that’s a bit hypocritical of Drake, for a few reasons. ![]() Pusha T’s track fuels rumors that Drake had intended to name his forthcoming sneaker line “Adidon,” a hybrid of Adidas and Adonis, after Brussaux’s 7-month-old son. The name “Adidon” refers to Drake’s long-rumored upcoming partnership with Adidas. This basic theme - of being connected and/or disconnected from black identity through paternity - plays out directly in “Story of Adidon.” Each woman is without a surname, left to speculate about who her father could have been based on the color of her skin. The song also samples Nina Simone’s famous song “ Four Women,” which explores the generational impact of slavery and skin-tone prejudice in America. The song serves as a wry critique on gentrification and modern attempts to use wealth to overcome one’s perceived blackness. Quoting O.J.’s famous apocryphal claim “I’m not black, I’m O.J.,” Jay-Z fills his video with cartoon racist stereotypes. Pusha achieves this complex layering by structuring “Story of Adidon” after Jay-Z’s 2017 track “ Story of O.J.” Pusha raps over the “Story of O.J.” backing track, and both songs explore the intersection of class, wealth, and black identity in America. The result, so sayeth Pusha, is that Drake is simultaneously abandoning his son while clinging to his own father for a sense of authentic blackness, even as he enjoys the privileges of wealth and his ability to “pass” as a white man. Pusha T’s thesis for “The Story of Adidon” is basically twofold: Drake’s confusion about his biracial identity has led him to adopt a hypocritical attitude toward fatherhood. “Adidon” tackles complex, intermingled themes of fatherhood and blackness For now, let’s break down the many things happening in “Adidon,” and what led to Pusha turning in one of the most glorious installments in rap feuds since the halcyon days of 50 Cent. In fact, the feud between Drake and Pusha may be all about an entirely different set of rappers - but we’ll get to that in a minute. If Pusha going all in on Drake’s approach to fatherhood seems a little harsh, hold up. Drake seems to have publicly acknowledged the relationship at last in multiple tracks from his new album Scorpion, in which he raps that “the kid is mine,” apparently in response to the uproar. Pusha’s track was a full-on Drake diss, containing lyrics like, “Let’s have a heart-to-heart about your pride / Even though you’re multi, I see that your soul don’t look alive.” The song mocks Drake’s dad, skewers Drake’s attitude toward blackness, and accuses Drake of being a deadbeat dad to Adonis, the son he’s rumored to have fathered with a French woman named Sophie Brussaux, a former porn actress, in October 2017. And no wonder - was that Drake in blackface on the cover? (Yes. Pusha T dropped “The Story of Adidon” on YouTube without a lot of fanfare, but it immediately caused a sensation, garnering 2.5 million views in less than a day. ![]() Why was Drake in blackface? Where did Pusha get that photo? Does Drake really have a secret love child? And what’s all this about invoices and fashion wars, again? But the latest involving Pusha T and “ The Story of Adidon” has left some fans and onlookers scratching their heads. ![]() Like many rap artists, Drake is no stranger to beef. Such is the delightfully labyrinthine rap feud behind the story of Scorpion - which starts with “ The Story of Adidon,” the mystifying killer diss track of Drake that Pusha T released in May. It might be a stretch to say that the 2018 album Scorpion only spends as much time on fatherhood as it does because Lil Wayne wore Bape once - but then again, it might not. But there’s a lot more to Drake’s rhymes on this subject than his own personal reflections on what it means to be a dad. The news that Drake is owning his parental status is big - so big it’s overshadowed nearly everything else about the sprawling album, including what is apparently new vocals from the late Michael Jackson. “That shit is in stone, sealed and signed,” he raps in the song “March 14.” “She’s not my lover like Billie Jean, but the kid is mine.” Elsewhere on the album he works out his contentious feelings toward the child’s mother, his overwhelmed reaction to learning he was a dad, and his resentment at the publicity around the event. Drake’s new double album, Scorpion, is out, and one of its recurring themes is fatherhood - specifically, Drake reportedly fathering the son of a French actress.
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