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June 2018: The Greatest Month of Music of All Time
This month saw new albums from Pusha T, Kanye West, TDE’s Jay Rock, Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda, Nas, and Teyana Taylor, as well as collaborative albums from Kanye West & Kid Cudi, and Beyoncé & Jay-Z.
Pusha T — “Daytona” +”The Story of Adidon”
Daytona was technically released in late-May, but it had to be included due to it being the first of five G.O.O.D. Music releases, and also because of the beef with Drake that carried into June. Pusha threw a feint jab at Drake on Daytona’s “Infrared”, baited Drake into responding, which he did with “Duppy Freestyle”, and then Pusha dropped “The Story of Adidon”, a standalone haymaker of a diss-track with an added layer of investigative journalism.
“Drug dealin’ aside, ghostwritin’ aside; let’s have a heart-to-heart about your pride”, he raps on the first verse. Drake’s complicated relationship with race is a theme Pusha homes in on. The story is told to us over Jay-Z’s “The Story of O.J.” and also dives into Drake’s familial relationships — particularly the parading of his absentee black father as a credit to his “blackness” — and the biggest reveal of all: Adonis, a son Drake allegedly had with Sophie…
