

A bunch of fans stalk Budden, and Drake approves Podcasts weren't enough to contain Budden's animosity for Drake, with the rapper lashing out at Drizzy (and Meek Mill, and also Jay Z, because why not) with Making a Murderer Part 1 in late June, following it up with a string of other Drake diss tracks.ģ. The 4PM in Calabasas discussion starts around the 29-minute mark here. Watch Budden go in on Drake in a clip from the podcast's taping (warning: explicit language):Ī month later, after Drake released the one-off song 4PM in Calabasas, Budden devoted another podcast episode to breaking down its lyrics line-for-line, claiming the track is dissing him. After Drake's Views came out in April, Budden - who's known to pick fights with other rap peers online - devoted an episode of his I’ll Name This Podcast Later to his underwhelming feelings about the album, calling it "uninspired." It's fitting that 2016's most meh celebrity beef started with a podcast episode.

Here's how we reached today's Drake/Eminem tipping point.

However, unlike the straightforward narrative of Drake and Meek's timeline - which started after Meek accused Drake of using ghostwriters - this most recent beef, which also involves the rapper Joe Budden, is a little murkier. Now, Drizzy finds himself at the center of more drama, which reached a new peak today with (fake) rumors that Eminem is preparing his own takedown of the Views rapper. This time last year, Drake and Meek Mill were beginning their seemingly-endless rap beef by trading diss tracks and subtweets.
