RAP BEEF: WHOSE WINNING? KENDRICK OR DRAKE?
Kendrick diss songs to Drake:
“Like That” ft Future
Euphoria
6:16 in LA
Meet The Grahams
Drake’s diss songs to Kendrick:
Push ups
Taylor Made Freestyle *deleted*
Family Matters
Drake and Kendrick Lamar have been exchanging diss tracks for the past few weeks.
Most recently, Lamar revealed Canadian rapper Drake has a hidden daughter in his latest song “Meet The Grahams”. This wouldn’t be the first child Drake has been hiding. Drake didn’t acknowledge his son, Adonis, until rival rapper, Pusha-T. dissed him and put out Drake’s son’s name in his Drake diss “The Story Of Adidon.” Now it seems Kendrick Lamar is taking a page from Pusha T ‘s rap book and reveals Drake’s daughter like a hidden character in a video game.
Hip-hop writers and critics are siding with Lamar, praising his lyrics as skillful and passionate.
Drake and Kendrick Lamar were once considered collaborators, perhaps even friends.
Until Kendrick said “Fuck the BIG 3 (referring to Kendrick Lamar, Drake, and J Cole) There’s only BIG ME!”
The avowal appeared in Lamar’s guest verse for “Like That,” the sixth track on Future and Metro Boomin’s collaborative album “We Don’t Trust You.”
When the album was released, attentive rap fans noted Lamar’s sneaky reference to J. Cole’s guest verse in the 2023 Drake hit “First Person Shooter.”
“Is it K-Dot? Is it Aubrey? Or me? / We the big three like we started a league,” Cole rapped, referencing Lamar’s nickname “K-Dot” and Drake’s birth name, Aubrey Graham.
J Cole released a diss track, retracted it, and apologized, he didn’t want the smoke Aubrey is sniffing right now. J Cole backed down from the challenge, Drake did not. He released a pair of diss tracks aimed at Lamar, “Push Ups” and “Taylor Made Freestyle.”
In the former, Drake mocks Lamar’s height with a reference to his latest Grammy-winning album, “Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers.” (“How the fuck you big steppin’ with a size-seven men’s on?”) The latter track opens with AI-generated advice from Tupac Shakur, whom Lamar has frequently been compared to. This strategy backfired, drawing criticism and legal threats from Shakur’s estate; Drake removed the song from his sociak media
Then after 11 days of silence Kendrick exploded on Drake.
“Euphoria” is an explicitly anti-Drake diss, containing layered insults about his rival’s roots (“I’d rather do that than let a Canadian n**** make Pac turn in his grave”), his track record as a dad (“I got a son to raise, but I can see you don’t know nothin’ ’bout that”), the plastic surgery rumors (“Tell ’em where you get your abs from”), and his dubious dating history (“We hate the bitches you fuck, ’cause they confuse themself with real women”).
Even the title is likely a reference to Drake’s role as executive producer on HBO’s “Euphoria,” a show that’s been criticized for objectifying and sexualizing young girls. (None of the actors depicted having sex are actually teenagers.)
“Drake’s ‘Push Ups’ and ‘Taylor Made Freestyle’ were solid efforts, but for my money, they didn’t hit as hard as the ‘Like That’ verse or ‘Euphoria,'” Angel Diaz wrote. “This response was well worth the wait.”
Similarly, music journalist Sowmya Krishnamurthy commended Lamar’s patience, “There’s a reason that he’s known as hip-hop’s reigning boogeyman.”
Moments before Kendrick’s latest diss track, Drake released “Family Matters,” accusing the Compton native of possible domestic violence.
“They hired a crisis management team to clean up the fact that you beat on your queen,” Drake said in the song.
Prior to “Meet the Grahams,” Kendrick had thrown haymakers at Drake with a pair of diss tracks, “6:16 in LA” and “Euphoria.”
Feels like Drake lost the culture today.
All he got left are his fan pages, Akademiks, and white women.
The late great NY rapper, Biggie Smalls, once asked “What’s Beef?”
Years later Kendrick gave Biggie his answer
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