Pusha-T Appears To Take Shots At Drake On Leaked Pop Smoke Song “Paranoia”

On Sunday, a Pop Smoke song titled “Paranoia” surfaced online featuring Pusha-T, in which the Virginia rapper appears to take his latest shots at Drake. The track, which also features Young Thug and Gunna, was supposed to be on Pop Smoke’s posthumous debut album, Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon, but was left off of the project.

Pusha starts his verse by addressing a rapper who uses patois on their songs:

Those empty threats only sound good on your records
If the patois is not followed by a Blocka

Drake has been using a patois accent dating back to his 2016 album, Views. As Genius contributor mbreeezy points out, Pusha released a song titled “Blocka” in 2013, which features Jamaican artist Popcaan singing in patois. Popcaan signed to Drake’s OVO Records in late 2018.

Then, Pusha references a November 2018 concert in Toronto when fans tried to rush the stage:

Let ‘em rush the stage when you made like Sinatra
Only to hide the blade flyin’ back through LaGuardia

At the time, Pusha alleged that the fans were affiliated with Drake. “He paid people to come here. Don’t he know where I’m from?” Pusha said, before performing his Drake diss track, “Infrared.”

As Genius contributor BezzyDelNegro points out, CBC News later reported that a man was stabbed during a brawl that broke out at the concert.

On the next line, Pusha alludes to Mississauga, a city just outside of Drake’s native Toronto:

I might even buy a home out in Mississauga
On my walls, have scrawls of Tschabalala’s

Pusha’s verse could be a response to Drake’s December 2019 song, “War,” in which Drake raps in a UK drill-inspired flow while using patois lingo. On the track, he spits:

I don’t do well with people makin' disses or makin' threats

Back in February, Pusha also appeared to take shots at Drake on Jadakiss‘ song, “Huntin Season,” which was initially pulled from streaming services out of respect for the then-recent murder of Pop Smoke in Los Angeles. On his verse, Pusha raps about moving the goalposts in a rap beef while referencing Drake’s rumored adidas deal:

They say all’s fair in love and war
You say I moved the line just to score
Headshot to keep adidas pure

The last line appears to reference “The Story of Adidon,” the 2018 diss track in which Pusha revealed Drake had a child named Adonis and claimed that the OVO rapper was planning to “reveal” his son during a brand deal with adidas. The “headshot” lyric reflects the general opinion that Pusha won the battle. Drake admitted as much during an interview with Rap Radar in late 2019.

It appears that “Paranoia” may officially hit streaming services soon, according to Instagram comments left by Pop Smoke’s manager Steven Victor. Genius contributor Nathaniel Hall captured the comments in a screenshot:

With a Drake album set to arrive this summer, fans will find out if he has a response soon enough. The rapper recently implied that the project was 80 percent done on his Instagram Story.

Read all the lyrics to Pop Smoke’s “Paranoia” featuring Pusha-T, Young Thug, & Gunna on Genius now.