DISSNATION
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Wake

By Joe Budden · Targeting Drake

Wake is a diss track by Joe Budden targeting Drake. The 2016 Joe Budden–Drake dispute began after Budden publicly criticized Views and interpreted Drake records and guest verses as replies. Budden's sequence attacks Drake's authorship, changing personas, alliances and reluctance to answer him by name.

Released2016
Annotated2
ExplicitYes
Addressable transcript

Lyrics & breakdown

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  1. 01

    [Intro: Kenny Powers]

    02

    New Joe Budden!

    03

    Good afternoon everyone. I'm Kenny Powers. If you're here and you're someone Shane cared about, or someone Shane loved. Or maybe you're just somebody who has no business being here at all who's just here because you think it's gonna make you more popular. You know, Shane and I used to fuck around big time. We fuckin' partied hard. We'd ride our vehicles around. Slay ass

  2. 04

    [Verse 1]

    05

    My condolences, my condolences

    06

    Whole family in mourning send my condolences

    07

    My condolences, crazy I just spoke to him

    08

    Courtney dropping drinks all in Hooters

  3. 09

    She losin' focus shit

    10

    Don't send a text, I don't care y'all mad

    11

    Shit, I waited 5 days nigga where y'all at?

    12

    For real, I'm calling Stunna

  4. 13

    Cause all Summer 16, ain't heard a hot 16 'bout all Summer

    14

    Awareness is high, say attention I'm seeking

    15

    Since I'm reaching, it's offensive they're convinced I'm a demon

    16

    Such a thin disagreement, son my kin for a reason

  5. 17

    Killing you is expected of me, I don't win an achievement

    18

    Somebody pinch me I'm dreaming, take this mental reprievement

    19

    Since I know the nigga, I know this ain't the man that I'm seein'

    20

    I heard it straight from the 'Bama's mouth, he won't pull a hammer out

  6. 21

    Wasn't you at Hov's show scared to pull the camera out?

    22

    I'm seeing habits switch, magic tricks

    23

    You froggy behind that Apple fix

    24

    The passiveness in your manner I might react to it

  7. 25

    Automatic shit

    Multi-line diss block
    26

    Ratchet kids at your crib that can't even spell Calabasas bitch

    27

    So I take all the guns, load half the clips

    28

    I just notice you run, we mention half the Clipse

    Block noteShrinks the target into a dependent

    TargetDrake

    MeaningWhat it means: In “Ratchet kids at your crib that can't even spell Calabasas bitch,” Joe Budden recasts Drake as a child, student, or minor-league figure who depends on a more powerful adult or senior artist. Why it was said: The 2016 Joe Budden–Drake dispute began after Budden publicly criticized Views and interpreted Drake records and guest verses as replies. Budden's sequence attacks Drake's authorship, changing personas, alliances and reluctance to answer him by name. The hierarchy denies equality before the battle is judged: if Drake is treated as a dependent, the target's challenge can be dismissed as imitation, immaturity, or ingratitude.

    ContextThe 2016 Joe Budden–Drake dispute began after Budden publicly criticized Views and interpreted Drake records and guest verses as replies. Budden's sequence attacks Drake's authorship, changing personas, alliances and reluctance to answer him by name.

  8. 29

    I'll save that for another time I'll get back to it

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    I'm kinda shocked to look at what we've advanced to

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    Knew it'd get you dismantled, knew the issues I ran through

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    Sick of the scandal, or maybe I just misunderstand you

  9. 33

    I kept it a buck, thought that, that was shit you could handle

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    You said that you wondered if anything you doin' was brand new, right?

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    I got him, no one help, father punch below the belt

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    Introspection means dig deep, let's look below the wealth

  10. 37

    I wanna know myself

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    How you tell bitches know they self

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    When you don't even know yourself?

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    You wouldn't know yourself

  11. 41

    Say he Canadian, maybe Asian, Croatian

    42

    Be sounding like his Jamaican friends, depend on what state he in

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    I think you rap good, but you a movie star

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    So that owl's appropriate, we don't know who you are

  12. 45

    Where did the boy's brain change? Was it the club scene?

    Multi-line diss block
    46

    Now you sound like you use people and love things

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    But later for how you use people and love things

    48

    The entendres that upswing when I call you drug king

    Block noteSays the target's identity is borrowed

    TargetDrake

    MeaningWhat it means: In “Now you sound like you use people and love things,” Joe Budden presents Drake's style or work as imitation rather than an original contribution. Why it was said: The 2016 Joe Budden–Drake dispute began after Budden publicly criticized Views and interpreted Drake records and guest verses as replies. Budden's sequence attacks Drake's authorship, changing personas, alliances and reluctance to answer him by name. The accusation strips Drake of artistic ownership: success looks less impressive when the sound, image, or idea is framed as somebody else's first.

    ContextThe 2016 Joe Budden–Drake dispute began after Budden publicly criticized Views and interpreted Drake records and guest verses as replies. Budden's sequence attacks Drake's authorship, changing personas, alliances and reluctance to answer him by name.

  13. 49

    That record contract, leaves a lot to exam

    50

    Never dealt drugs in his life, but sold a lotta gram

    51

    That's too much baking soda, good thing my break is over

    52

    They thinking cause my paper lower, this for Rage to blow up

  14. 53

    Or maybe they just woke up

    54

    You leverage your celeb, taking waves over

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    That's territorial takeover

    56

    Maybe he thinks nobody notices

  15. 57

    Gucci wasn't home two seconds before you rode his dick

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    Bodied Versace flows, copy, that he stole

    59

    Ay dios mio, sorry Migos, adios amigo

    60

    Was that your plot all along?

  16. 61

    Why you ain't do that vid with Fetty but you hopped on the song?

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    No really, we want a Party album

    63

    But you keep stealing all of Party's album

    64

    To go and put it on your party album

  17. 65

    It's plenty reason to slay you

    66

    Kept going up Tuesday's and now The Weeknd just hates you

    67

    Are you lifeless? Sound like a zombie on the track

    68

    Remember "Started From the Bottom," it was Zombie on the Track

  18. 69

    Know who else started from the bottom? Zombie on the Track

    70

    How come after that joint I don't see Zombie on a track?

    71

    I'm from Jersey, so Zombie I got your back

    72

    Be alarmed the real is finally back

  19. 73

    Get your guard up now, hope your heart up now

    74

    Battery in him, let's see if he get charged up now

    75

    I'm wake

    76

    I'm wake

  20. 77

    We at the wake

  21. 78

    [Outro: Kenny Powers]

    79

    Who's Goose and who's Tom Cruise?

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    Well now that Shane is dead I guess we know who is Goose. Shane is Goose. Cause in that motion picture, Goose dies, so Shane is dead so he would be Goose