War Pain

Album: 4/4 (2016)
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Songfacts®:

  • When Drake debuted his "Summer Sixteen" single on the OVO Sound Radio program, he poked fun at Meek Mill with bars about staying at the same Toronto Four Seasons hotel and playing his diss track "Back to Back" on repeat in a room directly above him. Meek responded just fifteen minutes later with "War Pain." On this answer song, he addresses several of Drake's lines about both staying at the same Four Seasons hotel.

    Location: Toronto; Status: five star hotel, Four Seasons.
    Them chumps right upstairs, they know not to come down here playin' no real niggas.
    Mood; I'm still up countin' five hundred thousand cash.
    Nicki in the bedroom sleep, life is good


    Mill is stating that he gets the best accommodations in Drake's hometown, despite their long standing rivalry. He also rubs the fact that he is with Nicki Minaj in Drizzy's face.
  • Later in the song, Meek Mill restates the original point of the beef: that be believes that Drake is a fraud who uses a ghostwriter to pen his rhymes.

    You ain't writin', n—a, we caught ya, can't erase that s--t
    Now you claiming you Hov now, why you stake that s--t?"


    The beef started in July 2015 when after Drake dropped a verse on Mekk Mill's Dreams Worth More Than Money track, "R.I.C.O.," Mill accused Drake of not writing his own bars.
  • Mill later claimed insider knowledge enabled him to mimic Drake's lyrics. He stated in an Instagram post that one of Drizzy's ghost writers slipped him the rhymes.

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