The 43-year-old rapper-turned-podcaster recently made an appearance on X Spaces on Sunday to discuss his involvement in the 2024 rap war, in which the 37-year-old Canadian rapper and Kendrick Lamar traded barbs over a slew of popular diss recordings.

But according to Budden, the defeat of the Six Gods started with him and escalated through Pusha T and 47 before arriving at K.Dot.

Budden remarked, “I don’t think any one man takes down Drake, which may sound narcissistic.” “I believe I handed the hat to Push, and I believe Push handed the hat to Kendrick, and the task is now completed.”

“That’s how I feel in my head and my heart,” he added.

Budden is referring to his rocky relationship with Drake, filled with periods of conflict and reconciliation since 2016. Budden’s criticism of Drake’s Views album led him to release “4PM in Calabasas,” which took subliminal shots at the “Pump It Up” rapper.  Budden responded with “Making a Murderer Pt. 1” and “Afraid.”

In 2018, Pusha T’s tensions with Drake reached a boiling point with his “The Story of Adidon” diss track where he exposed that Drizzy had secretly fathered a son, Adonis.

Absent from Budden’s narrative is Megan Thee Stallion, 29, whose chart-topping single “Hiss” arrived in January and is widely believed by some to be about Drake as she rapped about “cosplay gangsters” with “fake-ass accents.” Megan also included a nearly premonitory bar about BBLs, rapping, “These n***as hate on BBLs and be walkin’ ’round with the same scars.”

Many fans of the Houston-bred MC credit her with starting the “takedown” of Drake, although she seemingly gets excluded from this narrative.

Dot’s scathing verse on 30-year-old Metro Boomin and 40-year-old Future’s “Like That” arrived in March and took shots at both Drake and J. Cole, 39, in response to the “big three” verse on “First Person Shooter,” and the rest is history.