“Make Them Pay” is the ICEMAN record that walks the 2024 list. Kendrick first. Then the people Drake says went quiet or switched sides. Rick Ross is in that pile. The line that traveled is the one that names two Rosses at once.

Dawg, I was aidin’ Ross with streams before Adin Ross had ever streamed.

Rick Ross, the rapper. Adin Ross, the Kick streamer Drake actually talks to. “Aidin’” is both the verb and the kid’s first name. The reference is “Money in the Grave,” the 2019 hook that later crossed a billion on Spotify — Ross’s first billion-stream record. Drake’s version of history: he put the numbers on Rozay’s page before the streamer with the same last name even turned a camera on.

Adin heard it live and lost the chair. Holy shit, I made it. He swears Drake never tipped him. Then Drake hopped on FaceTime. I love you too. I’ll talk to you later.

Rick Ross, same day, told Page Six it’s nothing. Then: is the album even out? His own album Set in Stone was weeks away. He laughed that there would be diss tracks because that is what hip-hop is. Competitive. Fun. He also called the triple drop “3 mid” on Instagram, which is the other way to say it’s something.

The timeline crowd split on facts. Ross had No. 1 albums while Drake was still on Degrassi. True. Drake still put a billion-stream stamp on a Ross single. Also true. The bar does not care which résumé is older. It cares that one Ross is in the booth as a target and the other Ross is in the comments as a cameo.

“Make Them Pay” samples Deniece Williams’ “Free.” Billboard ranked it high on the album. Variety called the Ross and Khaled clips petty and efficient. The Adin line is the one that left the lyric booklet and became a split graphic: Drake in the blue bomber touching his temple, Ross in the red puffer leaning on a car. Two men. One last name. One stream count Drake says he gifted before the other Ross existed on the internet.