Following the release of Iceman, fans quickly noticed that Drake took some thinly-veiled shots at his former collaborator DJ Khaled for the latter’s silence on Palestine, and now he’s seemingly responded on Instagram.
In a post shared on his Instagram Stories, Khaled suggested that he won’t be playing into any negativity coming his way. “Good morning, what a beautiful morning,” he said, showing a picture of the view from his house. “Sending love and blessing to everyone out there. And remember, life is beautiful. God’s morning… Good morning!”
In a post that followed on his Instagram, accompanied by a video of him riding a horse, Khaled took a different approach, however.
“LET GOD RISE AND ALL HIS ENEMIES SCATTER,” Khaled wrote in the caption for the post, which has comments disabled. “No man nuh badda than JAH and wi a run JAH crew. Unoo come in a unoo thousands and two. They stand against you and hating me. Dem just cannot go through dem heart nuh clean nor free. I remind dem so much of who they are supposed to be. I am of royalty dem lost dem identity.”
On the Iceman track “Make Them Pay,” Dizzy called out Khaled directly.
“Dog, I was aidin’ Ross with streams before Adin Ross had ever streamed,” he raps. “And, Khaled, you know what I mean / The beef was fully live, you went halal and got on your deen / And your people are still waitin’ for a free Palestine / But apparently everything isn’t black and white and red and green, damn / I’m seein’ everyone’s true colors, for real, I’m sensin’ a theme.”
Drake, and his go-to producer 40, were among the first major artists to sign a petition calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. The rapper, who is Jewish, signed a letter in October 2023 calling for an immediate de-escalation and ceasefire in Gaza and Israel. Khaled, who was born to Palestinian parents who immigrated to the United States, has not commented on the conflict, which a United Nations special committee has recognized as a genocide.
