Drake And Meek Mill: A Timeline Of Their Ghostwriting Feud

Meek Mill isn’t the first rapper to have a problem with Drake, but this situation has ballooned way beyond your average rap beef. Ever since the Philly rapperaccused Drizzy of using a ghostwriter to pen his verse on their “R.I.C.O.” collaboration, we’ve being sucked down a black hole of allegations, leaked reference tracks, Twitter rants…and a couple of onstage rants, too.

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Fans are torn — are you #TeamMeek or #TeamDrake? — and continue to debate over whether or not Drake really used a ghostwriter…and whether or not that even matters. This story isn’t close to finished yet, so in case you’ve missed any of the developments, I’ve got you covered.

Here’s how it all went down:

• Meek Mill Accuses Drake Of Using A Ghostwriter

  In the middle of the night on Tuesday, July 21, with no warning, Meek Mill hopped on Twitter and fired off a series of heated tweets. He was apparently responding to people who had criticized his sophomore LP Dreams Worth More Than Money, and Drake got caught right in the middle of the crossfire. Meek demanded that fans stop comparing him to Drake and accused the Toronto rapper of using a ghostwriter to pen his verse on their collaboration “R.I.C.O.”

• Drake Is Active On Instagram But Doesn’t Respond Directly

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  Drake didn’t tweet or Instagram anything in response to Meek Mill while the Internet was going crazy, but battle rapper Hitman Holla posted a screenshot of his alleged DM conversation with Drizzy, where we could see the Toronto rapper simply respond with, “I signed up for greatness. This comes with it.”

• Quentin Miller Gets Thrust Into The Spotlight

  Without asking for it, Atlanta rapper Quentin Miller, suddenly became the center of attention. Meek Mill named him as Drake’s “ghostwriter” during his Twitter rant, which left everyone scrambling to figure out who he is. And also had us taking a closer look at the credits on If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late, where he’s definitely listed as a contributor on multiple songs.

• The Reference Track For Drake’s ’10 Bands’ Leaks

  On Wednesday, July 22, Hot 97’s DJ Funkmaster Flex decided to take matters into his own hands. He leaked an alleged reference track for “10 Bands,” which found Quentin Miller spitting Drake’s lyrics on the song. Flex claims that he obtained the song from within Drake’s camp. Queue the uproar, again.

• Drake’s Producer ’40’ Responds To Ghostwriting Allegations

  On the same night, Drizzy’s longtime producer Noah “40” Shebib became the first member of OVO to officially respond to the allegations. In a very long series of tweets, he defended Drake’s writing and laughed off the fact that The Boy is under fire now, although he’s written hits for other people.

• Drake’s Alleged ’Ghostwriter’ Quentin Miller Breaks His Silence

  

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  On Friday, July 24, Quentin Miller decided to respond to the ’ghostwriter’ allegations. He defended Drake, explaining that he’d working with him very briefly on If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late, and added that Drake was one of his idols.

• Meek Mill Throws Shade At Drake On Stage

  During the Virginia stop on Nicki Minaj’s Pinkprint tour, Meek took the opportunity to throw some more jabs at Drake. He apologized to Nicki Minaj for his “crazy” tweets (Nicki didn’t seem to mind, by the way), and then directed these words at her YMCMB label mate, “Shout out to Drake. Let him be great in all the motherf—ing lanes he great in. But I’m gon’ still be the realest n—a in this bitch!”

• Drake Finally Responds On ’Charged Up’

  Fans had three full days to debate about Meek vs. Drake, before the Toronto rapper issued a public response. That came in the form of “Charged Up,” a mellow track that was loaded with not-so-subliminal shots at Meek.

  “I see ya’ll n—as having trouble goin’ gold/ Turning into some so and sos that no one knows,” he rapped, even adding a reference to Nicki Minaj with, “No woman ever had me star struck/ Or was able to tell me to get my bars up/ I’m charged up,” he raps before delivering: “Rumor has it I either f–ked her or I never could/ But rumor has it has never done you n—as any good.”

• Meek Is Not Impressed With Drake’s Diss

  Everyone and their mom had an opinion on Drake’s diss track “Charged Up,” but Meek wasn’t impressed, tweeting, “Baby lotion soft……I can tell he wrote that 1 tho……”

• Meek Continues To Bash Drake On Nicki’s PinkprintTour

  

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  Even after the Twitter tirade and the previous shots at Drake while onstage,Meek still wanted to say more. Maybe he was fired up after hearing “Charged Up,” so during the Brooklyn stop on Nicki’s tour he continued to explain himself. “I was doing my album, and I asked the n—a to give me a verse for my album,”Meek told the audience. “The n—-a gave me a verse for my album but he gave me a verse that he didn’t write — that another n—-a wrote.”