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Steve Lacy insists there’s no animosity between him and Drake after the “God’s Plan” rapper threw a playful jab.
When Drizzy hopped on a livestream with xQc earlier this year, still in the aftershocks of his clash with Kendrick Lamar, he started naming names — calling out anyone he felt threw shade during the beef. One of those names was Lacy, who had just popped up at Kendrick’s The Pop Out: Ken & Friends concert in L.A. Drake labeled him “a fragile opp,” but also admitted he thought Lacy’s music was fire.
Most artists might’ve bristled at that. Lacy? He ate it up.
“I thought it was so awesome,” he told Jeff Ihaza in a new Rolling Stone interview. “I love Drake. I grew up listening to Drake… I didn’t know what it meant. No one knew what it meant. Then Fousheé sent me the clip and I was like, ‘Whoa.’ I fucked with it. It was cool.”
For him, the real story wasn’t a livestream jab — it was the fact that he’d just been embraced on Kendrick’s turf. Lacy, who grew up in Compton, said the show felt like a full-circle moment. “That was so beautiful and profound,” he explained. “When you’re in Compton, you only see one type of music being blasted, so I never expected what I was doing to be respected or a part of the conversation of what Compton is. So, to be there and to feel that love… was very, very special.”
At The Pop Out, Lacy ran through his own set before joining Kendrick and a sea of West Coast heavyweights for multiple victory laps of “Not Like Us.” It was the kind of night where the city’s energy drowned out any outside noise — even if that noise was coming from one of the biggest rappers on the planet.
