Canadian rapper Drake just let loose a savage diss on his Palestinian-American contemporary DJ Khaled over the latter’s apparent apathy over the plight of his own people.
Drake dropped three new albums, Iceman, Habibti and Maid of Honour, on Friday, with a particularly potent line in one of the songs.
In the song ‘Make Them Pay’ on Iceman, he attacks Khaled directly. “And, Khaled, you know what I mean. The beef was fully live, you went halal and got on your deen. And your people are still waitin’ for a free Palestine. But apparently everything isn’t black and white and red and green, damn.”
The criticism is not new, Khaled has been called out by fans for his silence on Palestine, especially in the context of Israel’s devastating war on Gaza, which started in 2023 and has killed well over 72,500 people so far.
During the war, when celebrities began to come out in support of the Gazan people, he chose instead to continue posting his daily shenanigans, for which he received a lot of flak on online.
