Is that a world tour or your girl's tour?
I know that you gotta be a thug for her
This ain't what she meant when she told you to open up more Drake – Back to Back
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In her song “Buy A Heart” from The Pinkprint, Nicki expressed both her desire for Meek and her fear of jumping into a relationship with him. She wasn’t sure if he was emotionally ready, and wanted him to “open up” to her.
Drake pokes fun at this, once again implying Nicki wears the pants both in their relationship and their business deals – he is merely the “opening act” on her Pinkprint Tour. Even then, he’s only one of many—Rae Sremmurd, Tinashe and DeJ Loaf appear on the tour as well. He’s opening up more alright, because he’s only the opening act.
Meek and Nicki confirmed their break up in January 2017. While Nicki was mature and respectful, Meek took a parting shot at her fashion sense.
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Make sure you hit him with the prenup
Then tell that man to ease up Drake – Back to Back
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Second floor at Tootsies, gettin' shoulder rubs Drake – Back to Back
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I drove here in the Wraith, playin' AR-AB Drake – Back to Back
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You still ain't did shit about the other one Drake – Back to Back
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This song marks Drake’s second track aimed at Meek Mill. When this song was released, Meek had only responded on Twitter. It wasn’t until the day after this song was released did he drop “Wanna Know.”
The song cover on Soundcloud shows Joe Carter playing for Drake’s hometown team, the Toronto Blue Jays, after he hit the home run that won the 1993 World Series against Meek’s hometown team, the Philadelphia Phillies. The Blue Jays had won the year before in 1992, thus winning “back to back” titles.
Drizzy really thought this one out: the same day this song was released, the Blue Jays and Phillies were scheduled to play. Poetically, the Blue Jays defeated the Phillies 8-2.
Carter has since responded, shouting out Drizzy on Twitter to personally thank him for using his picture as cover art.
Drake, the king of memes, channels DJ Khaled’s classic “Another One” meme.
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“Back to Back” is the second of Drake’s responses to Meek Mill following his allegations of ghostwriting in July 2015, via a now-deleted tweet:
The title refers to the second diss track in a week (it came just four days after Drake dissed Meek Mill on “Charged Up”), as well as The Toronto Blue Jays winning back to back championships.
True to his word, Drake performed the song live at OVO Fest accompanied by fan-made memes that dissed Meek Mill, a move taken straight from the Jay Z playbook. This is widely considered as the point where Drake won the beef.
The song cover shows Joe Carter, of Drake’s hometown team the Toronto Blue Jays, after he hit the winning home run from the 1993 World Series against Meek’s hometown team, the Philadelphia Phillies. The Blue Jays won the year before in 1992, earning “back to back” titles. Carter went to twitter to personally thank Drake for using his picture as cover art.
The release date of this track was no mistake, as the Phillies and Blue Jays faced off that same night (July 29th, 2015) on Sportsnet. Poetically, the Blue Jays came out on top, 8-2.
After Meek’s response track “Wanna Know” was released, Drake prepared a third diss track entitled “3Peat”, and played it at his OVOFest headlining show. However, the diss was never released in full.
“Back To Back” was nominated in the “Best Rap Performance” category at the 2016 Grammy Awards, the first diss track to do so.
In an interview on October 28, 2016, Meek Mill finally revealed what he thought about the track, stating:
I ain’t think it was no shit that people was gonna be like, ‘you got killed.’ I thought it was hot. Like when we shoot at niggas, you gotta shoot a nigga through the heart. When you wake up in the mirror, you looking in the mirror, you hearing what the nigga told you, some shit about yourself that you can’t even deal with. That’s how we battle where we come from.
If you are a nerd, everything here, you not cool with that Young Thug (Ft. Lil Duke) – With That
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Thugger has some advice for all the smart dudes out there: stay so fresh and so clean like your favorite brand of dish detergent and you’ll have no problems getting a second date.
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Drake calls himself out for the Jordan reference above, then goes against his usual stance of not replying to disses. He’s been involved in back and fourths over the years with the likes of Pusha T and Common, but never directly responded. On “Successful,” from his debut mixtape So Far Gone, he rapped:
In time, a wiser, older Drake may look back at his beef with Meek and laugh at himself for even participating in it.
“Weighin' heavy on my conscience” drake understands how it might affect his rap image if he is forever labeled guilty of having a ghost writer , he realizes that if he keeps quiet about this, he’ll lose respect
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There’s a common saying that you should just “Let it go”, but instead of walking away Drake entertains it. He knows he’ll pay for it later, but he’s focused on now