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Pusha T & Young Thug Beef Over Drake Diss On Pop Smoke’s Posthumous Album

The Pusha T and Drake beef goes on — and this time it includes Young Thug, Gunna and late rapper Pop Smoke.

The song at the center of the social-media squabble is “Paranoia,” a track that was left off Pop Smoke’s posthumous debut studio album, “Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon,” which was released Friday. But the track was leaked over the weekend, and it brought back some long-running bad blood.

On “Paranoia,” featuring Young Thug, Gunna and Pusha, the latter seems to use his verse to stoke his feud with Drake, 33, in references to the “Toosie Slide” rapper’s Toronto hometown and accent-shifting delivery.

“You know reality bites, it’s chess, not checkers/Those empty threats only sound good on your records,” raps Pusha, 43. “If the patois is not followed by a blocka/It’s like ‘Marked for Death,’ Screwface without the choppa/Let ’em rush the stage when you made like Sinatra/Only to hide the blade flyin’ back through LaGuardia/I might even buy a home out in Mississauga.”

And Mississauga just so happens to be an Ontario city near Toronto.

Young Thug, 28, jumped in it, saying on his Instagram Stories that he would have never agreed to do that song if he knew about the Drake diss on Pusha’s verse. “I don’t respect the pusha t verse on the song with me and Gunna cause I don’t have nun to do with y’all beef nor does Gunna, and if I knew that was about him I would’ve made changes on our behalf,” Thugger wrote.

Gunna, 27, reposted Young Thug’s Story, making it clear exactly where he stood in all this.

Then Pusha responded to Young Thug on his IG Stories: “you were the last verse added to the song and that’s ONLY because I requested YOU!!” And for good measure, he added: “I WOULD NEVER look or need YOUR respect for what is it I bring to this rap game!!”

Pusha also seems to imply that the offending verse is the reason “Paranoia” was left off the album, although he hints that the track was supposed to be included on a deluxe version.

Of course, the attention should really all be on Pop Smoke, a Brooklyn-born rapper who was killed at just 20 during a home invasion in Los Angeles in February — a tragedy that makes the whole Pusha-Drake beef, which last ignited in 2018, seem pretty silly.