Timelines Connections
Summer Sixteen
Drake, Jay-Z, Kanye West, Meek Mill and Tory Lanez
2015 - 2016

Stop comparing drake to me too.... He don't write his own raps! That's why he ain't tweet my album because we found out!

@MeekMill

He ain't even write that verse on my album and if I woulda knew I woulda took it off my album..... I don't trick my fans! Lol — Meek Mill (@MeekMill)

2015
Wow, I’m honored that you think this is staged / I’m flattered, man, in fact I’m amazed / The perfect start to the summer, man, this shit is a doozy / This shit a twist in the movie, but don't jump to conclusions
Drake
Charged Up
Meek Mill

Baby lotion soft...... — Meek Mill (@MeekMill)

I can tell he wrote that 1 tho...... — Meek Mill (@MeekMill)

On Jul. 29, Drake released another diss track, called "Back to Back." The beat is more brutal, the lyrics more savage — it's basically what everyone was hoping for the first time around. It's loaded with jabs, starting with the cover art alone, which features MLB player Joe Carter, who led the Toronto Blue Jays to a 1993 World Series victory. Which team did they beat, you ask? The Philadelphia Phillies, of course. (Mashable)

2015
Back to back for the n****s that didn't get the message / Back to back, like I'm on the cover of Lethal Weapon / Back to back, like I'm Jordan '96, '97
Drake
Back to Back
Meek Mill

Drake and Meek Mill's feud seemed to come to a close as soon as Drizzy dropped his second diss track in a four-day span, "Back to Back."

Then Aubrey's annual OVO Fest happened in Toronto and ended the whole thing all over again. Drake came out to the strains of "Charged Up," a.k.a. diss track No. 1, before "Back to Back" dropped and the screen filled with all the Meek Mill memes we've been chomping on for the past couple weeks. (FuseTV)

Following a pair of diss tracks aimed in Meek Mill‘s direction, the Philadelphia rapper finally fired back at Drake [...] with his hard-hitting “Wanna Know,” where he continues to hammer Drake for allegedly relying on ghostwriters. (Rolling Stone)

2015
I just wanna know, if you ain’t write that running through the six s**t / Tell us who the f**k was Quentin running through the six with?
Meek Mill
Wanna Know
Drake

On January 30th, 2016, Drake unleashed the track “Summer Sixteen” on OVO Sound Radio. On the single for his forthcoming album 'Views From the 6', Drake seemingly takes aim at Meek Mill and Tory Lanez.

2016
I let the diss record drop, you was staying right below me, n***a / We must have played it a hundred times, you was going to bed / Why would I put on a vest? I expect you to aim for the head
Drake
Summer Sixteen
Meek Mill
2016
You was never gang, gang, gang, gang, you was never one of us/ Had us fooled for a minute there, now we done all grown up / But I'm better off anyway, y'all never gon' finish Drake / Say you seeing 'bout it when you see me man y'all never home anyway / Thought of things that you shoulda said, said things that you shouldn't say / We even gave y'all the whole money play and y'all broke to this day / "Oh it's your time now" yeah, that's what everybody say
Drake
Summer Sixteen
Tory Lanez

Drake also pokes some fun at Jay-Z, saying he's risen to his level.

2016
I used to wanna be on Roc-A-Fella then I turned into Jay
Drake
Summer Sixteen
Jay-Z

Toward the end of the song, Drake raps about his rise to fame and fortune. But instead of just complimenting his own accomplishments, Drake insinuates that his career is so huge, even Kanye can’t touch him. (Hollywood Life)

2016
Now I got a house in LA, now I got a bigger pool than Ye/ And look, man, Ye’s pool is nice, mine’s just bigger’s what I’m saying.
Drake
Summer Sixteen
Kanye West

But within the hour, Mill posted his own diss track “War Pain” on a surprise EP, 4/4 Pt. 2. Not so weird, right? Except that he directly responds to lyrics Drake literally just released. How did he know what Drake was going to spit about him? Mill posted on Instagram that “The ghost writer told me!” This is a reference to Quentin Miller, the guy Mill accused of ghostwriting a verse on a song they made together, “R.I.C.O.” (Inverse)

2016
See an OVO chain, probably take that s**t / Said dreamin' wasn't enough, we had to chase that s**t / You ain't write it' n***a, we caught ya, can't erase that s**t / And you claimin' you HOV now? Why you state that s**t? / Man I hate that shit, n****s be talkin' out they face / But soon as you body somethin' they be singin' like they Drake
Meek Mill
War Pain
Drake