Hip-hop stars' beef began in 2014 when Drake dissed Kendrick Lamar on ESPN, sports personality says
The feud between Drake and Kendrick Lamar ignited a decade ago when Drake dissed Lamar in a taped interview on ESPN but then threatened to pull out of hosting the ESPY Awards if the network aired the critical comments, according to sports personality Marcellus Wiley.
The feud between Drake and Kendrick Lamar ignited a decade ago when Drake dissed Lamar in a taped interview on ESPN but then threatened to pull out of hosting the ESPY Awards if the network aired the critical comments, according to sports personality Marcellus Wiley.
Wiley, a former NFL defensive end and native of Compton, California, said in a video posted Wednesday on his YouTube channel that Drake, the Canadian rapper, sparked the hip-hop beef in a 2014 interview on “SportsNation.”
Drake was on the show, hosted by Wiley and TV personality Max Kellerman, to promote ESPN's annual awards for excellence in sports, the ESPYs, and his music and projects, Wiley said.
As he was being interviewed by Wiley and Kellerman, Drake began criticizing Lamar either out of "jealousy" or to put him in his place, Wiley said.
"We doing the interview and Drake going in on Kendrick. I was like, ‘Wait, what the hell?’ Me and Max hitting each other like this dude talking that trash," he said. "It’s about to go down. Our lives are about to change, ’cause we about to be … the epicenter of rap, like we got the biggest beef going, and he about to drop it right on our lap.”
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