Alleged Drake Reference Track Beam Debate Hip Hop News

Apr 17, 2018; Toronto, Ontario, CAN; Canadian recording artist Drake (right) during game two of the first round of the 2018 NBA Playoffs between the Washington Wizards and Toronto Raptors at Air Canada Centre. Toronto defeated Washington. Mandatory Credit: John E. Sokolowski-USA TODAY Sports via Imagn Images

Are fans justified in calling back to Kendrick Lamar’s Beam reference on “euphoria” or is the Drake hate train going off the rails?

Drake has been one of the most frequent suspects in ghostwriting conversations in hip-hop, although many fans continue to mistake that practice for simple additional writing credits. The latest example of this popped up on Twitter this week, caught by Ibvbnn.

In the video below, you can hear the “Triumph Tower” leak from earlier this year, an unreleased collab between Drizzy and Central Cee. Some accounts, like the post below, name this track as “Trump Tower,” but the initial report of the leak suggested that “Triumph Tower” was the actual name of the file. Nevertheless, an alleged reference track for this very same song leaked online this week, and it comes from Beam. He seems to do the chorus and general melody the same, albeit with different lines in the verses. Either way, it’s too vague to really tell, and the release and actual studio timeline is very unclear.

If you are unfamiliar with the Jamaican-born artist, he has worked with a lot of different artists when it comes to production and writing, including the 6ix God himself. In fact, even if you are sleeping on him, you probably heard his name on “euphoria,” the scathing six-minute diss track from Kendrick Lamar. “Ain’t 20v1, it’s 1v20 if I got to smack n***as that write with you / Yeah, bring them out too, I’ll clean them out too, tell Beam that he better stay right with you,” he rapped on the cut.

Finally, the post below pointed users’ attention to the wolfacejoeyy track “3STAR” that released earlier this year. It features the same lyrics and melody in pockets, and Beam reportedly contributed to it as a writer.