Kendrick Lamar ESCALATES beef with Drake

"Diss Tracks" are so ghetto.

Diss track...dat track.

Team no one.

These rappers are bitchier than a couple of old DL queens engaged in a flame war in a thread about Helen Lawson.

This reminds me of All Star Wrestling from back in the day.

There was The Crusher, The Claw, Black Jack Lanza and they all had scores to settle and it was all fake.

Maybe he’ll win another Pulitzer for this sparkling gem of literature?

Drake dindu nuffin.

Hey! This is serious art, dammit. Naw….it’s juvenile crap.

Would you like butter with your...muffin? Jam? Pnut butter?

You guys are so white and gay lol.

Here's your chance to educate us, r10.

R10 I'll take white and gay over black and ghetto

r10 Hilarious to witness, isn't it?

r12 Most gays live in a ghetto, also. Gays have their own "ghetto" slang. A ghetto is just a homogeneous community. So, slow your roll. Most gays, too, are ghetto. And "fabulous." You're ghetto fabulous!

R11 Who cares? Battle rap has been around since the 1970s. If you don’t know by now, you never will.

R13, learn the difference between role and roll before you try to tell anyone about anything.

The last time a diss track went out against Drake, he "gained" a son and was absolutely murdered by Pusha T. He should probably sit this one out.

[quote][R13], learn the difference between role and roll

r15 Bruh...

R12 You couldn’t lick the bottom of these guys boots. You don’t have their black ghetto money.

And calling Drake “ghetto” being a white-raised biracial who was a child TV actor from Canada just exposes your racism.

But go on, talk about how white and superior you are over “ghetto” millionaires

Let’s all just ignore the fact that these diss tracks are mostly guys calling each other homos.

R19 Prove it Tipper Gore.

Are you for real?

r19 Not always.

R13 Boring uptight queens, it makes sense how they survived the 80’s.

I’m talking about the diss tracks from this week.

^ Sounds like Kendrick is basically just airing out Drake's dirty laundry, to me.

Kendrick just dropped another track.

Drake has been cremated.

Definitely pointless bitchery, but without the psychotic edge that makes DL such a special place.

r28 I don't know about pointless bitchery. Kendrick is airing out laundry marred with Diddy-sized stains. Just saying.

Just uploaded an hour ago.

They have both run out of things to rap about.

r27 "Trying to strike a chord and it's probably A minor." After that bar from Not Like Us, yeah, he's cooked.

This will now be known as Drake's suicide note.

Nobody axed for this.

Drake accused Kendrick of not releasing his reply because he didn’t want it to be swamped by the release of The Tortured Poets Department (well, no one knew it would suck then).

When Kendrick did respond, his track was produced by Jack Antonoff, Swift’s producer.

I love it.

[quote] Let’s all just ignore the fact that these diss tracks are mostly guys calling each other homos.

Kendrick is conscious, like Common. Though he did suggest Drake had a BBL.

My diamond-crusted gold chain is bigger than yours

r35 The response was gorgeous.

Kendrick said Drake and his associates are “dick riders”, R36….

r39 Umm...that's hood slang for "brown noser" or "kiss up." Even Beyonce has a line in the song "Apeshit" where she says "get off my dick." It's something you say to imply someone is a kiss-ass.

When will the disrespectin's stop?

Well you learn something new every day.

R40 Yeah, the nerd writing in the Guardian didn’t know that either.

Who are all these people going on about Drake’s dick? It’s not even big.

Drake had a Brazilian Butt Lift?

Sheepishly I enjoy a good diss track, but would never admit it.

See what Katt Williams started with his Club Shay Shay interview?

Everybody's tryin to outdo Katt.

Advantage Kendrick. There's some pointed commentary in these. Not Like Us is better than any of the Drake ones.

I like Drake, but he's not totally keeping up!

r48 "Ain't that Drake crib??" I lost it watching this dude's reaction!

SHIT JUST GOT REAL!!

[quote] [R10] I'll take white and gay over black and ghetto

#LittleBitchProblems.

Is Drake being called out for sexing minors?

ssentially the beef has now come down to Kendrick being accused of domestic abuse and having an illegitimate son and Drake being a pedophile and hiding another child (which he is denying on social media). Obviously, theres more to it, but the winner will be decided by whos got receipts. Lose lose situation for both sides, its ugly.

r54 Kendrick very likely has receipts. Drake? Not so much.

Ghetto drama

Drake says Kendrick raps like "He's freeing slaves"

Drake is cuter. I vote for team Drake.

Drakes song is homophobic. He has a line in it about only the Pride boys liking Lamar’s shit.

Drake is a laughing stock and his not writing a word of his songs is back to bite him. He’s over.

Drake is still not over Rihanna.

Sad.

[quote] Drakes song is homophobic. He has a line in it about only the Pride boys liking Lamar’s shit.

And at the Weeknd for his music being played in gay bars. Dude is flailing.

[quote] ssentially the beef has now come down to Kendrick being accused of domestic abuse and having an illegitimate son and Drake being a pedophile and hiding another child (which he is denying on social media). Obviously, theres more to it, but the winner will be decided by whos got receipts. Lose lose situation for both sides, its ugly.

That’s not it. It’s not what this is about - well maybe it is for Aubrey, but not for Kendrick. In Meet The Grahams, Kendrick lays it out: he doesn’t like Drake, who he is, what he stands for and what he does. This started with Kendrick being included by J. Cole in a Top 3 with Drake. Drake is coming back with you’re a a hater, you’re jealous, you don’t have as much money. Kendrick is saying that’s not it, it’s not being a hater. It’s pure loathing and disgust for him a person.

What’s the point in trying to destroy each other? At least this fight won’t result in violence like so many others do.

Drake gets called a pedophile on the last one and we are laughing.

Someone's manager: Let 'em cook. They inspired.

Is Ari Melber OK?

Can’t we just get Suge & Diddy to 2Pac and Biggie these douche bags?

R64 Dude, they're probably in on it. Don't be fooled.

I know nothing about rap, but Drake is by far the bigger star, right?

He's like the Taylor, I guess? Huge but a lot of people don't like or understand his success?

So what does that make Kendrick? Gaga? Talented but not as popular? Or more like Adele? Or Lana Del Rey? Beyonce?

This is just like Hamilton v. Aaron Burr!

R70 I guess using your metric, Kendrick is Lana/Adele, with more political socio-political commentary.

Though even in this case, Drake only has maybe 4 Grammys. Taylor has 4 Album Of The Year Grammys alone. Plus she very recently tongue-bathing reviews because she weaponises everything possible to make critics and the industry terrified to look funny at her. She is a much harder nut than Drake.

And Kendrick Lamar has 17 Grammys and from fewer albums than Drake plus a Pulitzer.

Maybe Drake is Gloria Estefan and Kendrick is Nina Simone?

Think of Kendrick as rap’s answer to Norman Mailer.

Why don't they just fuck already?

Oh goody, teafake is back

[quote] Drake is cuter. I vote for team Drake.

He has a great smile but he reminds me of that guy in the “ewww… brother ewww… what's that… what’s that brother?” video.

Why am I supposed to respect any of these clowns and their craft when they don’t respect each other as artists or even people?

Is this what it was like to witness the Bette and Joan feud unfold in real time?

Why don't they just slap each other across the face with a silken glove.

Kendrick is winning. He's just a better rapper. Drake falls back on a sing-song-y thing he does..rhymes are a little weak. He defaults to talking about no.1 records and coming at Kendrick for doing a song with Taylor Swift. Kendrick meanwhile is reading him for filth from all angles.

r80 I'm still recovering from Not Like Us.

The lyrics...

The screenshot of Drake's house is actually supposed to mimic the apps and sites you use to find the location of registered sex offenders in your neighborhood. Apparently, Kendrick is saying a bunch of registered sex offenders are at Drake's mansion in Toronto.

Toronto mansions a cheap looking.

new Drake response. The Heart Pt. 6

^ The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

I kinda liked the last Drake track.

This feud is bitchier than the Madge versus Janet threads

Drake: I’m too famous to be a pedophile.

???

r65 After the latest drop, I'm convinced this is exactly what he did.

I can’t believe how bad these two clowns are. The music is unmissable and the lyrics sound like a 3 year old wrote them. They must suck some incredible dick to get where they are. Isn’t Drake from some rich family in Canada or something?

This entire thing was planned. They had all the songs ready. It’s a marketing gimmick.

"Is Ari Melber OK."

I will be covering this epic battle ad nauseum on my program all week long, with my usual candid reporting covering every excrutiating detail. With expert commentary from my panel of analysts, Jason Johnson and Maya Wiley

The last Drake song is OK. Doesn't sound like his heart's in it. He's tapping out, waving the white flag, ready for a nap.

It's easy to say it's all bad if it's all unfamiliar. R90 Should listen to the Kendrick song Euphoria. I'm no hiphop expert but have like a sit down with the song on headphones or something. Then you might see or admire the wordplay, the changes in cadence, etc, the art of it.

Drake isn’t on offense, he’s on defense, addressing what Lamar set forth in Not One of Us.

Advantage Lamar

When the dust settles I'll still be hearing lines like "once a lame, always a lame", "I hate the way that you walk, the way that you talk, I hate the way that you dress" and "OV-Ho" like a sweet memory.

Not Like Us has New York dancing. Beef or no beef, it's a BOP.

[quote]They had all the songs ready.

r91 Freestyling exists. That's how most live rap battles go. All they have to do is hit up a producer and ask them for some beats and then go to town. That's how Kendrick has been able to release his tracks so quickly. He's a better freestyler than Drake who not only uses ghostwriters, but also used AI in one of his latest diss tracks.

I've actually liked a lot of Drake songs. Some of his hits are really fun. I could get into him as a character. Maybe taking a step back for a moment!

So we are think Time Magazine Man of the Year for this? Maybe a Nobel prize?

The parodies and memes this beef has spawned are becoming more entertaining than the actual beef at this point.

Drake is boppy. Lamar is conscious. They're really not in the same category of hip-hop. It's the equivalent of Beyonce and Erykah Badu. They both have their place in the zeitgeist of 00's music., but Drake has more money than GOD and that pisses EVERYBODY off.

Personally, I fuck with Drake more than Lamar because as Drake says, "Kendrick raps like he's freeing slaves" and I have to be in the mood for that. Lemar, I would play in my office while I'm working. Drake, I would play while I'm running errands.

I mean... both guys are smart and savvy enough to keep this "Feud" going because it's the most interesting thing to happen in hip-hop in forever and everybody makes money from it.

On Twitter there's lots of things like this:

I thought “conscious” meant that you cared about the community. I don’t think being the blackness police counts as conscious or even political. Everything is sex and petty personal shit with him, not politics.

I always gravitated to Drake more as someone who doesn't regularly listen to hiphop. They do have different styles but a close listen to both sets of songs reveals Kendrick's superior talent. Drake got smoked hard. He's literally out of steam on this last one, The Heart Pt. 6 clinging desperately to this rhyme scheme. "I'm way too famous for this shit you just suggested"? What?!?

As good rappers aren't they supposed to have hit men kill the other? Preferably soon.

[quote]"Kendrick raps like he's freeing slaves" and I have to be in the mood for that.

r103 False. Drake is a very one-note rapper whereas Kendrick can be both conscious and make a track just to vibe to. He's a far more versatile rapper than Drake. Swimming Pools would be an example of a "vibe to" record. He's also good when featured on other rap artist tracks meant solely for the purposes of the club. Collard Greens comes to mind.

Apples to apples, Drake can't touch this man.

YAY

The shooting has started

Vintage beef drake

I was so AFRAID!

[quote] Drake got called white, a pedophile, and then Elon Musk followed him. I'm just naming the order of events.

What better way to move on that a pro-protest song from Macklemore!

playing Not Like Us to a crowd in LA

R54 and R64 - thank you for translating the elements of this rap beef. I haven't been able to figure it out, and listening to the songs gives me a bit of a headache. Yes, I'm old, and white, but I want to LEARN!

Oops I meant thanks to R63

Drake's Toronto mansion looks like a prison.

It’s full of PEDOS!!! Mary!

He's a gay Canadian Jew named Aubrey. Everything else is fake and poseur.

Drive by shooting in 10. 9, 8,....

Kendrick Lamar Duckworthy and Aubrey Drake Graham ought to be facing off with pistols at dawn and seconds.

Kendrick’s references have gone off. Apart from using a Jack Antonoff beat for 6:16, he also used an Al Green song that Drake’s uncle played guitar on.

"Everything else is fake and poseur."

Just like all the "feuds" in rap. It's like professional wrestling, with all of their personal vendettas and scores to settle.

Just got a news blurb that Biden's campaign is using Lamar's Euphoria against Trump.

The “BBL Drizzy Challenge” from Metro Boomin is so funny.

Tim Henson played guitar over it; the Duolingo owl threw it back; some girl did a Bollywood dance routine.

So is Kendrick really Duckworthy? I have my doubts.

[quote] Who cares? Battle rap has been around since the 1970s. If you don’t know by now, you never will.

Sorry I haven’t been paying attention, I’ve been rereading Jane Austen.

So does Drake have a fake ass or not??

Who cares? I hate his house.