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Drake has got himself into feuds with the likes of Kendrick Lamar, Pusha T, Meek Mill and Kanye West over the years. He also got into a war of words with Common, trading shots in the early 2010s across songs such as ‘Sweet’ from The Dreamer/The Believer and Rick Ross’ ‘Stay Schemin’.

From the Chicago rapper’s perspective, he felt that the beef started after Drake dated his ex, tennis star Serena Williams, when he took alleged subliminal shots at him. “I felt like Drake was sending me a couple of shots, subliminals,” he said on Drink Champs with N.O.R.E. and DJ EFN. “I don’t know what motivated him to send me some shots but I think what for sure had me, if I’m just being real, like you know, we mess with one of the same girls.”

He continued, “You know wars happen over women. That’s just what it is. I ain’t going to get at you if you with somebody I was with. But if you start throwing me a couple little, you know, you trying to throw some jabs, then I’m like, ‘Come on, man, OK.’”

However, their issues quickly got put to bed after crossing paths at the Grammy Awards in 2012. Drizzy was there with his father, Dennis Graham, who personally asked Common to end any problems that might still be bubbling. “I eventually saw Drake face to face,” he said. “It was at a point where I was like, ‘Wassup?’ And we had little words.

“And then his father was there and was like, ‘Y’all need to squash this.’ And I was like, ‘Man, this an elder talking to me. This this man’s father. Let me chill out.’ And then Drake just was like, ‘I ain’t on this.’ So we just squashed it. I was like, ‘Listen, if we face to face, then aight, I’m done with it. Even if it was some subliminal disses, I said what I had to say. Right now, we saying we squashing it. We good.'”

On another occasion, Common admitted that he respected Drake even more after having a positive conversation in which both wanted to participate. Their issues were strictly used for hip-hop purposes and not to take down each other’s careers.

“We had a talk, we had a conversation. It was a face-to-face, man-to-man, a positive thing. It was a good conversation,” he told sports television personality Cabbie Richards. “I’ve learned to respect him even more. I already thought he was a talented guy, but just from the conversation we had, I hold even more respect for him.”

He added, “We saw each other and the conversation was initiated. It was just a respectful conversation that needed to be had, so he knew that I’m not at him trying to destroy him as a human being. It was a hip-hop battle to me. I had to put all of those things into hip-hop… I gave him a pound, gave him a boom and it was all love.”