Pusha T recalls other artists “backing away” from him after Drake feud: “It was crazy”

nme.com:

Pusha T has admitted in a new interview that other artists were “backing away” from him after his highly publicised 2018 feud with Drake.Per Billboard, on Saturday (December 7), Pusha T – real name Terrence LeVarr Thornton – was interviewed at an Art Basel event in Miami.

Thornton had been asked about the feud between Kendrick Lamar and Drake that transpired this year, while touching on his own back-and-forth with the Canadian hitmaker in 2018.Thornton spoke about how the aftermath of his Drake feud played out differently compared to Lamar, whose scathing diss track ‘Not Like Us’ shot up to number one on Billboard charts.

The song also landed at number two on NME‘s 50 best songs of 2024.In 2018, Thornton released his third studio album ‘Daytona’ – its last track ‘Infrared’ featured shots at Drake alleging his use of ghostwriters for his music.

Drake responded with ‘Duppy Freestyle’, in which he criticised both Thornton and Kanye West, who produced ‘Daytona’.Four days later, Thornton released ‘The Story Of Adidon’, a slithering diss track that leveled a handful of insults and allegations towards Drake – that he was “hiding a child” named Adonis from the world, and that he was insecure about his race.