One for the film buffs
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This is one of the all-time legendary rap beefs, like Eminem vs. Fred Durst.
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Wait for it
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Wow wasn’t expecting that
Like I almost can’t believe that’s where that sample is from. It sounds like a different musical universe than the rest of the track.
Madlib
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Can someone give me (someone who doesn’t generally pay attention to stuff like this) a Cliffs Notes of this Kendrick/Drake thing?
Was literally about to ask the exact same thing
answer: You want the short answer or the long answer? I’ll give you the short version.
Kendrick has been fairly open about disliking drake for a long time (like since 2013). Drake hasn’t really said much about Kendrick (edit: directly), except last year on a song titled “First Person Shooter” with another rapper J. Cole, where Cole says,
Love when they argue the hardest MC/ Is it K-Dot [kendrick]? Is it Aubrey [Drake]? Or me?/ We the big three like we started a league
Kendrick responded directly to this claim that they’re the “big 3” in a verse on “Like That” where he says,
“motherfuck the big 3 … It’s just big me”
Clearly Kendrick did not want to be put on the “level” of drake and J. Cole
This leads to J. Cole coming out with a diss track against Kendrick (“Seven Minute Drill”) but he deleted it after a couple days and apologized. He might have heard whispers about what was gonna follow…
Drake released two direct disses towards Kendrick: “Push Ups” where he makes fun of Kendrick’s shorter stature, and “Taylor Made Freestyle” where he uses an AI generated voice for 2Pac and Snoop Dogg in an attempt to goad Kendrick into responding. “Taylor Made Freestyle” generally was looked down on compared to “Push Ups” because it used 2Pac’s likeness without his estate’s consent (he later took it down at the request of 2Pac’s estate - a move that Drake later blames on Kendrick calling 2Pac’s estate and pressuring them to do so)
So after Drake releases these two diss tracks, Kendrick responds with his first direct diss against Drake: Euphoria. In it, he claims (among other things) that Drake’s label, OVO, has snitches for Kendrick inside of it. Kendrick also criticizes Drake’s use of the n-word and how “the culture” doesn’t respect Drake.
Kendrick follows this up with a song “6:16” where he doubles down on the claim that OVO has people feeding Kendrick information, and that Drake is wildly insecure
Drake makes his response to Kendrick’s disses with one of his own in “Family Matters”. He makes a well-shot music video that shows Drake referencing several of Kendrick’s remarks, showing him that he’s not bothered by it at all. In this diss track, he claims that Kendrick is hiding a domestic abuse scandal and that one of his sons is not biologically Kendrick’s. He continues by claiming that Kendrick is racist towards light-skinned black people, and says that Kendrick is a hypocrite for how he raps about socially conscious ideals but doesn’t replicate them in real life
Now so far, things are fairly standard, but it seems like it’s getting heated up. Drake is laying into Kendrick and Kendrick is unabashedly claiming he’s Drake’s biggest hater.
The reason people are going crazy about tonight is because less than a half hour after Drake drops “Family Matters”, Kendrick releases a response (likely in large [or completely] recorded beforehand), titled “Meet the Grahams”. He addresses some of what Drake mentioned (like Ozempic, “lies” about Kendrick’s family, etc.) and publicly claims that Drake is a pedophile and a predator, and shelters predators in OVO. Kendrick also states that Drake has another (see: Story of Adonis) hidden child. The thumbnail for the diss track includes a picture of drake’s belongings, including a prescription for Ozempic under Drake’s legal name “Aubrey Graham”
Today hip hop fans ate good because Kendrick dropped “6:16 in LA” this morning, Drake dropped “Family Matters” around 8:30 PST, and Kendrick immediately responded with a new diss track on top of that.
Before you say “this is the short version?” Yes. Yes this is the short version. If you want the extended discussion, you have to listen to these tracks and read the lyrics on Genius to get the full context
EDIT 1: NAH KENDRICK RELEASED ANOTHER DISS TRACK
“Not Like Us” features a thumbnail of drake’s mansion with several sex offender registry symbols on it. In it he doubles down on pedophile accusations and parodies Drake’s style of making TikTok dance music.
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How likely are the allegations that K-dot is a domestic abuser?
same as anyone else, prob.
also, the cover of ‘not like us’ is a satellite view of drake’s house with like 8 icons they used to identify child molesters on some government tracking website lol.
feds raiding his house this week will be the final, eyes-shooting-lasers vince mcmahon.
fb convo about all this last night:
old head: man this ain’t no battle, it ain’t krs, nas/jay-z was a battle, these two corny bros rapping for clicks.
my buddy: we on here talking about it ain’t we? stfu boomer
next 10 replies were asking him if he listened to meet the grahams or literally anything since 1997 haha good times
in fairness, in my days diss tracks were way easier to understand:
“That’s why I fucked yo’ bitch, you fat motherfucker”
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Drake just dropped again. I officially hate both of these dudes.
haha, had that convo recently… “used to be you didn’t need rap genius pulled up to know who won” haha
THEY NOT LIKE US, THEY NOT LIKE US, THEY NOT LIKE US
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https://x.com/hiphopartprints/status/1787252738545311980?s=46&t=hUTQWHj9NQWf8Y8RgMv1TA
sitting on the couch with my lady saturday night, saw another kendrick song. put the phone up to my ear trying not to bother her watching a movie. at some point i started losing my mind and just turned it up. she laughed and said i get too hype over music.
turns out, thousands of people were doing the exact same thing at the exact same time lmao.