Fans Aren’t Happy Drake Dissed Kid Cudi’s Mental Illness In New Track

Fans are not happy with Drake’s timing.

Kid Cudi goes into rehab w/ depression & suicidal urges.

Drake releases a track dissing him.

THIS is the greatest rapper of my generation?

— (working) (@AmbassadorBleu) October 23, 2016

drake joking about kid cudi’s mental illness isn’t cool.

— greg (@n9viv2) October 24, 2016

KID CUDI SAID DRAKE DIDN’T WRITE HIS SONGS

DRAKE MAKES FUN OF CUDI MENTAL HEALTH AND DRUG USE

— Gee (@Lilgeeeeee) October 24, 2016

Drake dodges lyrical rappers but disses a depressed suicidal Kid Cudi that’s in rehab, Drake is a clown.

— ??Celtics 0-0 (@iSoLyf3) October 24, 2016

The beef between Kid Cudi and Drake stems back to September, when Cudi called out both him and Kanye for not writing their own songs. (Most of Kanye’s songs are written with the help of a number of artists, but Drake maintains he writes his own music.)

I need yall to know I got so many haters within the industry and these clowns know Im bout to crush their entire existance.

— The Chosen One (@KidCudi) September 14, 2016

Everyone thinks they’re soooo great. Talkin top 5 and be having 30 people write songs for them

— The Chosen One (@KidCudi) September 14, 2016

The days of the fuckery are over

— The Chosen One (@KidCudi) September 14, 2016

My tweets apply to who they apply. Ye, Drake, whoever. These niggas dont give a fuck about me. And they aint fuckin with me.

— The Chosen One (@KidCudi) September 14, 2016

The fake ones wont be lasting too much longer

— The Chosen One (@KidCudi) September 14, 2016

Kid Cudi’s not the first one to claim Drake is a fraud, either; in July Meek Mill did the same thing, tweeting that people should “stop comparing Drake to me too… he don’t write his own raps! That’s why he ain’t tweet my album because we found out! I pray the real live forever and all the fake get exposed.”

(Drake’s producer denied these comments at the time.)

Drake and Kanye both responded to Kid Cudi’s dragging at the time, addressing crowds at their individual shows following the Twitter rant. Drake laughed it off, echoing his producer’s call that Cudi was “smoking too much” and needed to “Cud-it”, while Kanye said how hurt and disrespected he was by his former protégé.

“Do you know how many people wish they could be signed to G.O.O.D. Music, get their life changed, have an opportunity?” he said at the time. “Never forget that! I am so hurt. I feel so disrespected. Kid Cudi, we are two black men in a racist world.”

So yeah, you could definitely say there’s an ongoing beef. (It’s also led to a Kanye & Jay Z blowout.) But drama or not, most fans reckon Drake choosing to diss Kid Cudi while he’s in rehab for major depression is a pretty low blow.

damn its disappointing that drake would release a diss track when kid cudi is in rehab for depression and suicidal thoughts

— Ranya (@tweetingyaya) October 24, 2016

Neither Drake nor Kid Cudi’s management had commented on the line at the time of writing.


Photo: Getty / Michael Tran; Instagram / Drake.

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