Two McDonald’s sandwiches have now joined Drake among the legions of those absolutely ethered by Pusha T diss tracks. “Rib Roast,” a takedown of the beloved McRib sandwich that returns to the golden arches each fall, follows March’s “Spicy Fish Diss Track,” a screed against the Micky D’s Filet-O-Fish.
Each song has been a collaboration with Arby’s to promote a competing sandwich. The earlier cut touted the Arby’s Crispy Fish sandwich and today’s track is a tribute to the Country Style Arby’s Rib Sandwich.
Arby’s, it seems, has gambled on a spokesperson who “could sell water to a whale” (as Push reports on “Spicy Fish Diss Track”) to offset the originality deficit in its new sandwiches’ names.
Push has never been one to give up a grudge or go easy on a nemesis, as evidenced by his life-altering 2018 scorcher “The Story of Adidon,” which exposed that Drake was “hiding” a six-month-old son from public view (not to mention its cover art, for which the Bronx rapper dug up a 2007 photo of his Canadian rival in blackface).
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