Fat Joe and Jadakiss got into a spirited discussion on a recent episode of Joe and Jada about Drake dissing frequent collaborator DJ Khaled on the Iceman track “Make Them Pay.”
On the song, Drake directly called out Khaled over his silence on matters pertaining to Palestine.
“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,” he raps. “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.”
“It doesn’t sit right with me that he disrespected DJ Khaled,” Joe said.
Jadakiss argued that being bothered by Drake going after Khaled represents a larger issue that he sees in hip-hop today.
“That’s what’s wrong with hip-hop,” he said. “It’s invisible lines. It’s this and that. Is it beef? Is it hip-hop? What could be said. What can’t be said. It’s supposed to be musical. And then it gets to a point where it’s not musical. Then it’s not hip-hop.”
Even though Joe brought up that Khaled is not a rapper and cannot respond as you would typically see in a hip-hop feud, Jada proposed him tapping another rapper to engage with Drake. “He got people. He got money,” he said. “Go in the phone, help yourself. It’s only hip-hop, right?”
“I just felt like it was a form of bullying,” Joe said of Khaled’s circumstance.
Jada pushed back, pointing out how Drake was feuding with several artists, aside from his back-and-forth with Kendrick Lamar, at the same time.
The conversation then switched over to a question that’s presumably on the mind of everyone else: What did Khaled do to get dissed in the first place?
After Jada suggested that someone should ask Drake for some backstory on his beef with Khaled, Joe bemoaned the fact that the diss appears on “the hottest fucking song on the album.”
In light of the discourse over the diss, Khaled took to Instagram Stories to spread positivity, but followed that up with an Instagram post where he delivered a message in patois.
“LET GOD RISE AND ALL HIS ENEMIES SCATTER,” he wrote. “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.”
A video later surfaced of a streamer approaching Khaled and asking him to say “Free Palestine.” Instead, Khaled flashed a peace sign and said, “Peace and love to everybody.”
