It's been a few weeks since Rap-A-Lot CEO J. Prince made a call to Drake and advised him against responding to Pusha-T's "The Story of Adidon" diss.
In the following month, Prince conducted a handful of interviews explaining his reasoning for steering Drake away from "the pigpen" and encouraging him to not release a diss song that could have been a "career-ending situation" for Kanye West.
Sitting down with RapUpTV this week, Prince gave some more context and noted that the bigger picture of Drake's career wasn't worth getting sidetracked by something so "trivial" as Pusha's diss.
"When you are a big picture thinker and you have a movement going such as Drake—he has so many moving parts where his career is concerned—then you don't allow a moment like a Pusha T where somebody is being real disrespectful towards your mother, father, your friend, you don't allow something so trivial to stop a big movement," Prince noted. "Because it's easy to go there and things fall apart."
He has a point. Drake is at a place in his career where he was able to survive "The Story of Adidon" without responding and still put out a record-breaking album that landed all 25 of its songs in the Billboard Hot 100.
"I didn’t tell him to not release the record he had recorded because I don’t know if he had recorded it or not, but what I was familiar with was the ingredients that was gonna be in the record,” Prince said. "I definitely told him pull the plug on that. We’re not finna get in the pigpen and wallow in slop when you’re a big picture thinker and you have a movement going such as Drake."
Speaking on his initial reaction to "The Story of Adidon," Prince added, "I didn't like it. I felt it was disrespectful and I saw a desperate person. A desperate person that was willing to do whatever and say whatever to win. I understand where he's coming from. I understand that mentality. I dealt with it all my life. That's why I had enough sense to pull the plug on the situation."
Prince also gave some details on his close relationship with Drake and told RapUpTV, "He calls me pops. He told me he's my adopted son. I accept him as my son, so I'll be pops." You can watch the full interview at the top of the page.
