“Idols become your rivals”- Fans react to Drake discussing his first encounter with Kanye West at 2013 OVO Fest in latest ‘100 Gig’ release

Drake dropped a new string of content on his 100 Gig website on Friday (August 23). Besides uploading three new songs, Drizzy also released behind-the-scenes footage from the past that had never been uploaded in the past. Most were from 2013 when Drizzy was working on his third studio album, Nothing Was The Same.

Among those videos was a clip of Drizzy discussing his first encounter with Kanye West (aka Ye) at the OVO Fest (2013).

"I'm the biggest Ye fan. Period. Sometimes I feel like I can't like it because I gotta go against it. But that sh*t tonight was almost therapeutic," commented Drizzy.

Fans of both rappers have voiced their opinions about Drizzy's comments on X. Some of the popular ones are as follows:

"Idols become your rivals," commented one netizen on X.

"drake & kanye from 2012-2020 could’ve given us generational collab album(s) had they haven’t beefed," opined another.

"One thing I've noticed about drake is that at his core he's a really nice dude but through all the Bs that comes with the music industry he's built kind of a hard shell to protect himself. Ppl say he's acting like a "tough guy" but I just think that's who he has become overtime," tweeted another fan.

However, many fans were critical of the two rappers.

"Drakes sick in the head y’all. The fact Drake looked up to him before his fame and was acting like he f ed Kim to mess with Kanye, is some sick twisted sh*t," opined one person.

"I really hate the way he talks," noted another.

"Kanye was great in 2013, he’s washed now," inferred another.

Some of the other comments by fans are as follows:

"Fast forward 11 years later and his once idol turned to one of his biggest haters and joined forces to “eliminate” him smh," quipped one netizen.

"Ye owns Drake, it’s not even a debate anymore," announced another.

"Drake and Ye share that characteristic and love for one another lol," another fan said.

Drake and Kanye West had a cordial relationship until they started feuding in 2018. Drizzy and rapper Pusha T had been on bad terms for a long time. In 2018, Pusha T released the album Daytona, produced by Ye. The album had a song called Infrared which questioned Drake's lyrical abilities.

In response, Drizzy released Duppy Freestyle, containing disses aimed at Kanye West. This started a long-standing feud between the two rappers that continues to date.

Meanwhile, Drizzy's new site went live in early August and dropped a bunch of new content belonging to the rapper's career over the years. The site's first upload included three songs featuring collaborations with big names like Young Thug, Latto, and 21 Savage. The rapper's recent drop also includes three new songs, i.e., Circadian Rhythm, SOD, and a collaboration with Playboi Carti called No Face.

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Kanye West hails Drake as the catalyst behind Ye's 2011 collaboration with Jay-Z

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In one of the unseen clips uploaded by Drizzy on his website, Kanye West talked about the inspiration behind his 2011 album Watch The Throne with Jay-Z. In the footage, Kanye was seen performing at the 2013 OVO Fest when he revealed that Drizzy inspired his collab with Jay-Z.

Praising Drizzy for 'doing something like this for the city,' the Famous rapper commented:

“Me and Hov would’ve never made Watch The Throne if this n***a wasn’t putting pressure on us like that.”

This clip implied that the relationship between the two rap titans was cordial before their longstanding public beef started. The two were also rumored to be working on a project in the mid-2010s but their feud squashed the collaboration. After years of firing verbal shots at each other, they finally reconciled at Ye’s Free Larry Hoover Benefit Concert in 2021 (or so we thought).

However, the feud rekindled when Kanye West dropped a remixed version of the diss track Like That featuring Kendrick Lamar, Future, and Metro Boomin in 2024.