Kendrick Lamar’s Drake Diss ‘Not Like Us’ Fires Up Beef

The most important hip-hop beef of the last decade continued to get greater over the weekend, with Kendrick Lamar dropping two new vicious Drake diss songs, “Not Like Us” and “Meet the Grahams,” inside a 24-hour interval on Could 4. The latter arrived inside hours of Drake’s “Household Issues,” itself a response to Lamar’s “6:16 in L.A.” Lamar did not even anticipate Drake to reply earlier than unleashing “Not Like Us,” which set the web alight with some notably disturbing allegations.

“Not Like Us” represents Lamar’s fourth anti-Aubrey Graham broadside since March, when the long-simmering Chilly Battle between the 2 hip-hop heavyweights exploded into life together with his shock verse on Future and Metro Boomin’s “Like That.” Drake has now launched two counterattacks, not counting the AI-assisted “Taylor Made Freestyle,” which was pulled from circulation after the property of Tupac Shakur threatened authorized motion.

“Not Like Us,” which Lamar launched alongside art work that seems to point out Drake’s Toronto dwelling with sex-offender-map graphics, takes brutal goal at each Drake and his associates for unspecified sexual misdeeds, at one level explicitly calling the group “licensed pedophiles” and taunting “ain’t you drained? Attempting to ring a bell and it is in all probability A-Minor.” These ugly accusations adopted some equally out-of-pocket private jabs from Drake’s “Household Issues,” during which he claimed that considered one of Lamar’s youngsters was fathered by the rapper’s longtime label affiliate Dave Free, and appeared to indicate that Lamar had abused his spouse by means of a joke about his peak, rapping: “Once you put your palms in your woman, is it self-defense ‘trigger she greater than you?”

(For sure, neither Lamar nor Drake have ever been credibly accused of any of the intense crimes talked about in both of those songs.)

Lamar’s earlier monitor, “Meet the Grahams,” was equally private, with Lamar addressing particular members of Drake’s household, from his son to his father and his mom, earlier than lastly providing “recommendation” to Drake himself within the closing verse. He raps: “You bought playing issues, consuming issues, pill-popping and spending issues / Dangerous with cash, whorehouse soliciting ladies issues, remedy’s a stunning begin.”

As hip-hop’s solely Pulitzer Prize winner continues to escalate his conflict with one of many best-selling pop stars of the present century, the meat has damaged out of any containment to hip-hop circles. In her look of Saturday Night time Stay on Could 4, visitor host Dua Lipa portrayed a bubbly morning information correspondent trying to clarify the feud to confused viewers, offering such insights as: “One clue is on the music ‘Euphoria,’ when Kendrick describes Drake as Canadian, that’s as a result of Drake is from Toronto.”

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For individuals who want a refresher, the 2 rappers have reportedly been lower than fond of each other for years, however their beef lastly exploded onto wax in late March when Lamar took some barely-veiled pictures at each Drake and J. Cole on the music from Future and Metro Boomin’s album We Do not Belief You. (The squabble has since grown to embody a large cross-section of hip-hop names, together with Rick Ross and Kanye West.) Cole issued the primary response, “7 Minute Drill,” then tapped out of the feud and eliminated the music from his newest launch, later calling it “the lamest s–t I ever did in my f–king life.” Drake issued a belated response with the leaked monitor “Push Ups,” then took the dispute into uncanny valley territory with “Taylor Made Freestyle,” which taunted Lamar with AI-generated vocals within the model of Tupac and Snoop Dogg.

Lamar hit again once more with the six-minute, scorched-earth “Euphoria,” and the free-for-all has been ongoing ever since.