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Drake Says ‘F**k a Big Three’ on ‘Iceman Episode 4’

The rapper said, “It was a mess anyway.”

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Drake’s Iceman is upon us, and in Episode 4 of his rollout for the album, the 6 God surprised us with what sounds like the album in full.

While there’s no track names yet, there’s certainly a lot of very pointed references to everyone from DJ Khaled to his disdain over rap’s “Big Three,” famously considered to consist of him, J. Cole and Kendrick Lamar.

On one of the songs, Drake raps, “Fuck a big three anyway. There was too many chefs in the kitchen. It was a mess anyway.”

Unless you were born yesterday, you probably are aware of the highly publicized rap beef between Drake and Lamar. The months-long beef, sparked by Lamar rapping, “Fuck the big three, it’s just big me” on Metro Boomin and Future’s “Like That.” The ensuing fallout even saw Cole tag himself in, although he withdrew his participation in the beef days later and presumably ending his friendship with Drizzy.

Like all good stories, the beef “ended” with Lamar’s scathing diss track, “Not Like Us.”


Elsewhere on the album preview, Drizzy revealed his father, Dennis Graham, has cancer. “My dad got cancer write now, we battling stages,” he rapped.

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