DRAKE has been dragged into XXXTentacion’s murder trial, with the defense arguing the rapper should submit a deposition.
The pair had been embroiled in a fiery feud before the platinum-selling star was shot dead on June 18, 2018.
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XXXTentacion and Drake feud explained
XXXTentacion, whose real name is Jahseh Dwayne Onfroy, was killed in broad daylight in 2018 as he left a Florida motorcycle dealership.
The 20-year-old was ambushed in the parking lot as he was leaving the store during an apparent robbery.
Footage showed the rapper had withdrawn $50,000 in cash and placed it in a Louis Vuitton bag in his car.
He was rushed to hospital with multiple gunshot wounds before he was declared dead a short time later.
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Michael Boatwright, Dedrick Williams, and Trayvon Newsome were charged with first-degree murder and found guilty after facing trial.
But defense attorneys have argued that Drake could be tied to the killing amid his simmering feud with XXXTentacion.
The lawyers claimed that cops didn’t investigate the alleged feud between Drake and XXXTentacion following his death.
Rumors have swirled for years claiming that the rapper, known as X or XXX, had beef with the highly decorated Canadian music star.
It supposedly began when Drizzy released his album More Life in March 2017, featuring the song KMT with UK rapper Giggs.
XXXTentacion pointed out that the song sounded extremely similar to his track Look At Me, which catapulted him to stardom.
Fans suggested Drake had stolen the rapper’s flow, seeing him brand his rap rival “a b**ch” for “taking his s**t.”
What did XXXTentacion say about Drake?
XXXTentacion did not hold back when he called Drake out for supposedly ripping off his 2015 debut single.
The 20-year-old let rip during an interview on The Breakfast Club following his release from jail on March 27, 2017.
He fumed: “If he would have shown that he’s a hospitable person and that he’s really in this s**t for the culture rather than being a f**k n***a taking my shit, running off with it then putting it on his album then he would have got my kudos, he would have got my respect.
“I would have let him hop on the remix, take 100 percent of the royalty rate. I would have done it.
“Despite me not respecting him as a man, I respect that n***a’s career. That’s the G.O.A.T. (greatest of all time).”
He also dissed Drake during an Instagram live, where he ominously joked: “Yo, somebody gonna shoot me.”
In 2018, XXXTentacion shared an Instagram post that read: “If anyone tries to kill me it was @champagnepapi [Drake]. I’m snitching RN.”
The star then quickly removed the post, saying that his social media account had been hacked.
Three months later, the rapper was murdered.
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What has Drake said about XXXTentacion?
Drake decided not to comment on XXXTentacion’s claims for the most part but insisted he did not steal his flow.
In a 2017 interview, Drake told DJ Semtex: “I listened and I’m like, okay, I see where people could draw this comparison off of the first two lines, whether it be cadence or the rhyme pattern or whatever.
“It’s crazy that people think that after all this time, after all I’ve been through, that I’m the type of person… to go and take that and make it my own.”
However, fans suspect Drake has made a series of thinly veiled references to his rival’s murder in some of his music.
Just three weeks before the fatal shooting, Drake released his 2018 album Scorpion, which featured the song I’m Upset.
He raps in the hit track: “End up gettin’ loose and gettin’ pictures from my ex, SMS, Triple X.
“That’s the only time I ever shoot below the neck.”
Drake also opened the track with the line “50,000 on my head its disrespect,” which social media sleuths believe references XXXTentacion withdrawing $50,000 in cash before he was shot dead.
The One Dance rapper set the rumor mill swirling again with his rhymes on the song On BS on his 2022 album with 21 Savage titled Her Loss.
He says: “Maybe I should do a twenty, maybe I should break that twenty, do a ten. Maybe I should break that ten, do a five, then if it gets live, do a five again.
“If he held his tongue on that live, he’d be alive again, damn.”
Fans suspect the Canadian artist was alluding to XXXTentacion with his mathematical lyrics.
The answer to his confusing sum is 30, which is XXX in Roman numerals – and also one of the late rapper’s nicknames.
The second bar seemingly refers to the Instagram live in which XXXTentacion laid into Drake.
Prosecutors say there is no evidence linking Drake to the deadly gunfire.
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