RadioOnFire.com - Drake completed his New York City takeover on Monday night [August 8], closing his final Summer Sixteen installment at Madison Square Garden with appearances by Fat Joe and Remy Ma, Cam'ron and Juelz Santana, and friendly rival J. Cole. He even made time to pop bottles with one of his biggest trolls, leaving evidence behind that he'd share a laugh with Power 105.1 host Charlamagne Tha God before leaving town. But as one might have expected with the unraveling of longstanding tensions between him and veteran DJ Funkmaster Flex over the past few days, there was no love for the radio station that helped build Hip Hop from its birthplace before bringing it to the world. In fact, the Toronto rapper seemed to plant his flag and stake claim over rap's mecca.
"This was the real Summer Jam," Drake told the sold out crowd while giving his thank-yous and goodbyes. "What have they done for New York lately? I don't know, but this is the real Summer Jam right here."
He didn't need to name Hot 97 for the world to know that's who the jab was aimed it. Drake opened his four-night leg of the tour with a freestyle that set the blogs off, with bars that set the table for a long weekend quarrel when he suggested that he'll be refraining from performing under the station's promotion until they fire Flex. The shots came days after the senior DJ's colleague Ebro Darden joked about the 6 god inviting a battle with rap god Eminem. Flex immediately put those following the situation on notice, tweeting that he'd be dedicating a segment of his Saturday show to addressing Drake. Flex would go on to give his story on how his beef with Drake began. Drawing back to his instigation of his tiff with Meek Mill last summer, and digging deeper into rumors of Drake's work with ghostwriters as he referenced back to Drizzy's first ever freestyle with the station, in which he read rhymes [which Flex alleged were not his], off of a Blackberry. Drake wouldn't allow one day to transition to the next without getting back at the DJ, insinuating [without saying names] that Flex is out of touch and irrelevant, during an after party at Space Ibiza.
Drake's allusion to Summer Jam and dismissal of Hot 97's recent contributions to the music set off yet another social media frenzy but leaves questions unanswered for some industry stakeholders who've been pulling closer to the edge of their seats since Thursday. While basking in the suspense of the turn of events, Ebro wondered aloud about exactly what might be at the root of Drake's animosity, during Friday's show. "Sometimes I don't even know how to enjoy life without moments like this," he said. "What is this really about with Drake? Is this really about the fact that I said we was joking about him making comments about Eminem? You think that's what this is really about? Or is this about Flex? Or is this about all of it?" With the multitude of cameos from some of the city's biggest names and overt gestures of unity with Hot 97's rival station, Drake seems to be implying that Hot 97's Flex problem, is his Hot 97 problem.
Source: complex.com
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