Beef stew

MUSIC MIGHT BE THE FOOD OF love, but the food of music is beef, and music has been eating exceptionally well since October last year. That’s when Canadian rapper Drake (below) released the track “First Person Shooter”, though the trouble didn’t start with anything Drake said but rather with a guest verse from J Cole including the lines: “Love when they argue the hardest MC/Is it K-Dot? Is it Aubrey? Or me?/We the big three like we started a league.” Aubrey here is Drake (real name Aubrey Drake Graham); K-Dot is Kendrick Lamar, less commercially successful but ultra critically acclaimed (in 2018, he became the first hip-hop artist to win a Pulitzer). And it’s worth pausing to recognise that this was a compliment: Cole was saying that there are three…

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