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Drake’s new track “Push Up,” a diss directed at Kendrick Lamar, Rick Ross, the Weeknd, and others, had the rap world buzzing on Saturday. Then, shortly after, Rick Ross’ response, on “Champagne Stories,” turned a noteworthy day unforgettable. Hip-hop heads of a certain age were hit with a wave of nostalgia thanks to the way both songs were released. A clip of “Push Up” circulated on Reddit and Twitter before DJ Akademiks legitimized the track and played a studio-quality version on his stream. Then Ross sent his response to Akademiks just hours later.

The two veteran rappers took us back to the aughts, when songs weren’t simply uploaded to streaming platforms at midnight. Big singles, especially diss tracks, almost always went through a step-by-step process before the full version reached the public. Those songs might have ended up on the radio, on a message board, or a blog, and people would play that poorer quality version until we eventually got the studio-quality file — then called a CDQ, referring to the now obsolete term “CD quality.” Fans in Drake’s 36-year-old age range know that era for big clothes, rap disses replete with Funkmaster Flex bombs, and RapidShare file sharing links.

article links:

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/ai-generated-drake-kendrick-diss-1235005008/

Today is for push-ups and Programming and I am all done doing push-ups

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