Kickstarting 2025 on a high note, Conductor Williams, a producer who has worked with Drake, released a brand new Drizzy freestyle on his YouTube page on Friday (Jan. 3).
Though the video was quickly pulled down from YouTube, fans got hold of the ‘Fighting Irish’ freestyle and flooded the viral clip on various social media platforms. The visual captures Drake’s side profile as he raps through a small, grainy TV screen.
The Canadian rapper gets introspective about the trials and tribulations on the Conductor-produced freestyle and seemingly blasts those who switched sides on him throughout the Kendrick Lamar feud.
Drake raps “The world fell in love with the gimmicks, even my brothers got tickets, seemed like they loved every minute/ Just know the s–t is personal to us and wasn’t just business/ Analyzing behavioral patterns is somewhat suspicious.”
In the new record, the OVO boss appears to target those he considered close friends, such as NBA stars DeMar DeRozan and LeBron James, who were in attendance for Kendrick’s Pop Out concert in June. The Fighting Irish was also the mascot for LeBron’s high school team when he attended St. Vincent-St. Mary High School in Ohio.
The rapper also shoots down Kendrick’s notion that he has a drinking problem, which Lamar alleged on the diabolical “Meet the Grahams.” “I don’t have a drinkin’ problem, I got a subtle addiction/ I got my father’s habits and I got my mother’s permission,” Drake rhymes.
Regarding his legal actions alleging that Universal Music Group [UMG] artificially inflated the popularity of Lamar’s “Not Like Us” diss track, he sent a subtle jab to UMG “I hate to see their empire crumble on judges’ convictions,” he spews. (UMG denied his allegations, calling them “offensive and untrue” in a November statement.
