Key Takeaways:

• 21 Savage revealed he warned Drake not to reply to Kendrick Lamar through the two’s well-known beef, calling it a no-win scenario.
• He defined that even when Drake “won,” public notion would nonetheless body it as a loss.
• The interview sheds mild on how artists weigh public notion and technique earlier than participating in rap beefs.

21 Savage simply dropped a brand new album, WHAT HAPPENED TO THE STREETS?, however a Thursday (Dec. 11) interview throughout which he spoke at size on a bevy of subjects can be getting loads of consideration. The Atlanta-based rapper notably mentioned Drake’s notorious beef with Kendrick Lamar.

The “Bank Account” artist sat down with host Rashad “Big Bank” Holsey, Sr’s “Perspektives With Bank” podcast on for a three-hour dialogue. One of the subjects producing loads of curiosity is Savage’s tackle Drizzy’s feud with Lamar earlier this yr. Apparently, Savage cautioned him to not have interaction, however the Toronto native was undeterred.

“Do I think he took a hit? Nah,” Savage stated. “He’s still the number one streamed n**ga this year. I feel like he took an internet hit. But then it be like, ‘Damn, did you take an internet hit?’ Because streaming, you gotta go on the internet to stream … I feel like to certain people, they might say he took a hit. But I don’t look at that s**t like that. I don’t know. I told that n**ga not to even do all that s**t anyway. I told that n**ga [to] leave that s**t alone.”

Savage stated that his “Jimmy Cooks” collaborator felt like he was “challenged lyrically” and couldn’t again down. He additionally detailed a telephone name the place they mentioned the scenario.

“He called me one of them days or I called him,” Savage defined. “I think this was after the first song, the song with Metro and them, and I said, ‘Goddamn. You finna go into a battle that you can’t win, like, there’s no way you can win.’ No matter what, bruh. Certain situations, even if you win, you still don’t win.”

To be clear, Savage wasn’t suggesting that the 6 God had no probability at victory. Rather, even when the general public consensus was that Drake gained the battle, it nonetheless would have been an L.

“How can you win a battle when n**gas want you to lose it?,” Savage continued. “Even if you win, you lose. No matter what. Even if Kendrick never responded, man. If Drake just dropped songs and Kendrick never responded or nothing, he still don’t win because his position didn’t change. He was already the top n**ga.”

He added, “It’s rigged, man. Even if Drake won, he would have been the bad guy for winning.”

Elsewhere within the dialog, Savage talked about fatherhood, revealed that Drake apologized to Metro Boomin a number of occasions, mentioned the foundations of snitching and way more. Watch the total interview with “Perspektives With Bank” beneath.