Hoover Sr., who was sentenced to 150 to 200 years in prison for a 1973 murder, was subsequently convicted on a variety of drug conspiracy and extortion charges for continuing to run the Gangster Disciples from behind bars. The elder Hoover’s case has been a fixation of West’s for some time now: In 2018, he met with Donald Trump and lobbied for his release. The reconciliation was also encouraged by Larry Hoover Jr., who appeared on Donda, West’s sprawling album from this year, to speak about his father. Prince, worked through their differences. But last month, West (now legally known as Ye) visited Drake at his Toronto home and, seemingly at the behest of the Rap-A-Lot founder and general hip-hop power broker J. The pair have traded barbs in their music these are usually subliminal, with things growing more explicit on West’s Twitter feed, or by proxy, as during the Drake/Pusha-T beef of 2018.

Though Kanye West is one of Drake’s major influences and early co-signers, their relationship has turned hostile in recent years.

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