Chicago Hip Hop legend Common’s beef with Drake.

Over a woman?

The word on the streets is that the Chicago hip hop legend’s beef with Drake is in fact over Serena Williams. Common and Drake has been shooting verbal shots at each other for the past couple of weeks. The Chicago rapper hit Drake with a verbal equivalent of a heymaker, in the form of a diss remix to “Stay Schemin,” a Rick Ross joint.

So is this beef over Serena? The tennis star was recently profiled in a Yahoo article discussing her love life. Or the lack thereof. According to the article, she hasn’t been on a date in “forever”.

“Serena dated the rapper Common on and off for three years. The two broke up sometime last year, reportedly leaving the Chicago hip hop artist “heartsick.” Since then, Serena has been hanging around with the Canadian TV star-turned-rapper Drake. The two were photographed playing tennis together while Serena was out with an injury last year, though both insist the relationship is platonic.”

Chicago Hip Hop legend tells the real deal

In an interview with Sirius Hip Hop Nation, the Chicago artist said that the battle is not over the curvy tennis star. But about Drake taking the feud to the next level. Common said in the interview: “Well, the song ‘Sweet,’ for me, was a song where I was really talking about Hip Hop. A lot of the softer side of Hip Hop is just being the example of what people think Hip Hop is. To me, you can express yourself in many different ways, but I was just missing that hardcore Hip Hop, that raw Hip Hop sound, and I was just talking about it. I was saying, man, the song ‘Sweet’ was cats out there doing sweet music. Dude must have took offense to it, so he came out and said some things, and once he said something on record, I said something on record.”

Here the rub, Drake responded to Common’s “Sweet” in a concert. Once that happen, It was on.

“That was the first thing that he responded and said something. I was like, well, I wasn’t trying to address you specifically, but if you feel like you are that person and if you’re addressing this to me, then I have to address you back,” he continued. “But my whole mentality was that I’m doing this for Hip Hop music. I’m not trying to bring somebody down. At the end of the day, I just expressed what I felt about Hip Hop. And I’ma keep it on that level, just as an emcee. That’s how I battle. I don’t try to battle any other way than emceeing.”

According to Common, the internet rumors are all wrong. The Battle is not over the Chicago hip hop star’s ex. Even though Drake was spotted with Serena Williams after her break up with the Chicago Rapper. It was because the YMCMB artist shot back at the Chicago hip hop legend.

“We know that things can get like that, but that’s not what we want for the culture, for ourselves as men. I think we learned enough from those days to be like, OK, if you’re going to challenge me as an artist, an emcee, I’ma let you know who I am.

You just gotta know what you in it for. I got in this because it’s Hip Hop. I was speaking up on the song ‘Sweet’ about, over and over we’re hearing a lot of singing. I listen to R&B, I listen to good R&B and soul music, so I’m not opposed to singing. I’ma be frank about that. But I just spoke up for the art of Hip Hop and what I feel about it, and I want everybody to know that Hip Hop is a diverse culture and it does have that boom bap to it too. Once he said something back, that’s when I said, aight, I guess you want to get in a battle with me. And if that’s what you want, then I’ll battle.”

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