In an interview with MTV, A$AP Rocky voices his thoughts on the Drake and Meek Mill beef. During Lollapalooza, Rocky was asked his opinion, and according to him someone had to take a lost. Additionally, the Harlem emcee spoke on the ghostwriting and whether it matters.
On ghostwriting:
“If you ask me if that matters, or if the public cares, that’s two different questions. I think that it doesn’t matter at this point for the public — they seem like they don’t care. I don’t know. To me it matters.”
I asked Rocky, Does it matter to you as an artist or a fan?
“Yes, both ways.”
On the Drake and Meek Mill battle:
“Watching this was like watching the Super Bowl. I wanna say thank you to Drake and Meek Mill, because that’s good sportsmanship,” he said.
“For real, that sh-t was fun. I needed that. To see that, that’s good sportsmanship. I think Meek will be fine. I think he has a fanbase of his own, and I think that at the end of the day, there had to be a loser in the outcome, and it was Meek. So it is what it is.
If somebody helped Drake, I dunno, that might be considered cheating, but whoever wrote that — not saying Drake ain’t write it, I’m quite sure he did — that sh-t was insane. That sh-t was incredible, and I wanna thank Drake and Meek Mill for such a good battle.
I come from an old school aesthetic — me being 26 — coming from the point of, when I was coming up, it was all about writing your rhymes, and I’m quite sure for R&B songs, if someone’s giving you [lyrics], that’s nothing. I don’t know. I would have to see. I don’t know what to believe. Regardless of if Drake write his sh-t or not, I’m still a fan.”
