It seems as if Pusha T is taking the gloves off, coming off of the heels of his fourth-studio album Daytona on his latest diss track, “The Story of Adidon.” A rebuttal to Drake’s “Duppy Freestyle,” furthering the ongoing feud that initially began with Drake’s predecessors Lil’ Wayne and Birdman.

The beef is lethal, the wordplay is impeccable and the climate of the rap game seems to be ascending to unforeseen heights amid the filler that is today’s “mumble rap.”

Despite that all, we’ll leave the lyric breakdowns up to Billboard and Pitchfork to debate, because well–that’s what they do.

Instead, we’re focusing on the underlying issue that is seemingly being swept under the rug, which is the cyclical nature of an overwhelming majority of black men failing to raise their children.

As Drake’s poster boy image faces a verbal barrage at the hands of Pusha T, the layers of his transgressions are revealed to the public, unlike the son he allegedly failed to acknowledge.

On his most recent track, Pusha raps, “You are hiding a child, let that boy come home/ Deadbeat mothaf*cka, playin’ border patrol, ooh,” as the No I.D. produced Jay-z beat ‘Story of O.J.’ beat smoothly plays under. The bar alludes to the Toronto rapper’s alleged son, Adonis, whom he had with former pornstar, Sophie Brussaux.

While the verbal haymakers are harsh, they offer the opportunity to pose an interesting question that has not been asked, which is, why would Drake neglect his child after suffering through the same thing as a kid?

Drake discussed his relationship with his own father in a 2012 interview with GQ,

“I’ll never be disappointed again because I don’t expect anything anymore from him,” he said referring to his now rekindled relationship with his father, Dennis Graham. “I just let him[his father] exist, and that’s how we get along… I spent too many nights looking by the window, seeing if the car was going to pull up. And the car never came.”

Peering out of the window in false hope waiting for dad to get home from his “trip to the store,” or a jail sentence disguised as a “visit to the moon” or whatever other lame excuses were made in your father’s absence, can leave a child permanently scarred. Especially when that father is a Grammy-award winning, platinum-selling superstar rapper.

This pain is evident on the tack, ‘Look what you’ve done,’ off of his second studio album Take Care released in 2011 that highlights the struggles he and his mother faced as she tried to raise him alone.

He raps “And my father living in Memphis now, he can’t come this way/Over some minor charges and child support that just wasn’t paid,/Damn boo-hoo, sad story—black American dad story.”

Drake references the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act, in the lyric which revoked the passports of anyone owing more than $5,000 in child support. This could be the reason for Drake’s absence in his alleged son’s life who currently lives in France but given Drake’s financial status, this doesn’t appear to be a reality.

Pusha also condemned Drake for using his son as a selling point for his upcoming Adidas collaboration, ironically entitled Adidon.

Pusha raps, “And he deserves more than an Adidas press run, that’s real Love that baby, respect that girl/Forget she’s a pornstar, let her be your world.”

While Drake gets his affairs in order to respond—or not—he does plan to release his fifth album in June, maybe claiming his son will be in the plans as well.

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