Snake drafts are a Dog Walk institution at this point, but this one turned into something more than a bit within the first few picks. The premise is simple: rank the best rappers of all time, snake-draft style, five hosts picking their personal top guys in order. It's the kind of low-stakes debate that should stay low-stakes. It did not.
Nicky Smokes went first overall and didn't overthink it, taking Drake 1-1. That's the safest, most defensible pick on the board commercially, and the reaction from the room made it sound less like a strategic slam dunk and more like a personal crusade.
The Dog Walk's own account framed it as Nicky Smokes going full missionary mode for Drake, complete with 'greatest artist' and 'Drake said it himself' captions flying across the screen.
Nobody loves anybody the way Smokes loves Drake right now, at least according to his own co-workers, and that's before you get to the pick that actually broke the internet. Once the Drake discourse settled, the real story became Eddie's turn on the clock.
According to Chief, Eddie made an 'ALL-TIME bad pick' and the demand from the room was blunt: don't let him weasel out of it this time (post-ac535c6c-5fd8-479c-8c57-ef62a11b33d9). Turns out the specifics are almost worse than the hype. Eddie, a Chicago native, reportedly took Lil Dicky over Chief Keef, a hometown legend, in the same draft.
Barstool's main account zoomed in on the pick itself, with the room's reaction landing somewhere between disbelief and betrayal.
Passing on a Chicago drill pioneer for a comedy-rap guy, live on your own show, in your own city, is the kind of decision that follows a guy around the office for a while. It's not that Lil Dicky is indefensible as a top-whatever rapper conversation piece, it's that doing it over Chief Keef, specifically, in front of your co-hosts, is asking to get roasted for the rest of the day.
The draft is reportedly still going, which means there's more room for this to get worse for Eddie before it gets better. Smokes has staked his claim, the room has its villain, and until somebody tops that Lil Dicky pick, Eddie's stuck defending it on every future episode.