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Hip Hop beefs are their own Game of Thrones as different camps posture for dominance, but they're usually a little more evenly matched than this recent dust-up.

Meek Mill truly went left when he fired shots at Drake this past Tuesday. Randomly blasting the Canadian superstar out of the blue, Mill accused the Toronto native of employing a ghostwriter. He even went a step further and named the alleged accomplice: a writer named Quentin Miller who has credits on Drake records but quickly clarified, “I am not and never will be a ‘ghostwriter’ for Drake.. I'm proud to say that we’ve collaborated .. but I could never take credit for anything other than the few songs we worked on together."

The resulting fallout from all sides has been one of the most entertaining episodes in the world of hip hop dramas since Empire went off the air. The meme explosion alone has been worth its weight in gold.

For starters, there's the complicated issue of Meek’s girlfriend Nicki Minaj who is Team Young Money— she’s not going to participate in the take down of her own crew, a fairly compromising position and one the Internet had fun playing with when the story broke Tuesday.

Drake is featured on the song "R.I.C.O.," from Meek Mill's recent No. 1 album Dreams Worth More Than Money, but apparently that very collaboration is what set off the controversy. "He ain't even write that verse on my album and if I woulda knew I woulda took it off my album," Mill tweeted on Tuesday.

Drake was silent all week then fired back on his Beats 1's show OVO Sound Radio on Saturday with "Charged Up," a diss track that was played four times in a row and by all accounts, bodied Mill in its scathing response.

"Wow, I'm honored you think this is staged / I'm flattered, man / In fact, I'm amazed,” Drake rapped, "Done doing favors for people / 'Cause it ain't like I need the money I make off a feature / I see you niggas havin’ trouble goin’ gold / Turnin’ into some so-and-so’s that no one knows.”

And it won't end there of course... Hip Hop's Geraldo Rivera, Hot 97's Funkmaster Flex, inserted himself into the situation by threatening Drake with “exposure” by revealing what he claimed to be reference tracks that prove Drake’s a fake. Meek Mill is scheduled to appear on Hot 97 with Flex this Monday night (tonight) to discuss.

UPDATE:

Funkmaster Flex never did deliver on the promise to have Meek in the studio, as the rapper was a no-show. Much like Geraldo Rivera's empty vault scenario on live TV, Flex had to move through an entire broadcast stringing listeners along until Meek's own tour DJ crushed the dream via social media by tweeting "nothing was happening" tonight. Meek Mill did respond before the end of the evening however, but that only made things weirder.

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