On a recent episode of Brilliant Idiots, Charlamagne tossed out something that felt more like a grenade when he casually dropped a nugget like he strongly implied Drake might’ve once given the green light to an assault against him. Charlamagne suggested the 6 God sent some goons to beat him up in the past.
“The b*st security guards I saw in my life for G-Eazy line was, you know we had a line on you … ‘just do it, all bills will be paid,’” Charlamagne recalled. These former bodyguards, he told me, pulled him aside years later and confessed that there had been an order floating around to take him out if they ever caught sight of him.
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Nothing ever went down, and the same guards told him they liked him now. But it doesn’t make the entire situation any less chilling, particularly when Charlamagne uttered that cryptic line: “He’s not like us.” That had some listeners momentarily confused about whether he was referring to Kendrick Lamar. But the way he spun the tale, including a little seasoning with lawsuits and history, made it fairly evident who the intended target was: Drake.
Charlamagne and Drake haven’t ever exactly been besties throughout the years. Shade has crisscrossed between interviews, radio segments, and Instagram captions. But a secret order to “take someone out”? That would be a beef from petty to perilous.
As one insider explained: “These guys do get lost. They begin to believe their life is the fantasy they’ve made up.” In hip-hop, the whereion between persona and reality has already become pretty opaque, and that’s one downriss cocktail.
Can we also discuss the mechanics here? Bodyguards are licensed to use force in protection. All it takes is a single scuffle spun in the right direction, and now it’s “he lunged at me” instead of “we ambushed him.” Charlamagne also knows this, but he talked about how easy it is for muscles to “make it seem like you were out of pocket.”
Drake, for his part, has so far said nothing of the claim, which is not so surprising. But if this story has any weight, it stands as a new twist on the way that some of the most powerful artists of the moment encounter criticism.
Charlamagne closed out the story with a bit of cosmic gratitude, sharing, “I just thank God for always blessing me…that’s why I know every time I got jumped or got punched in the face, I was supposed to.” It was a strange prayer, but okay.
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