Kendrick Lamar and Drake have every launched a number of ruthless diss tracks in opposition to one another over the previous week, taking jabs at peak and elegance and making allegations about every others’ kids and different disturbing accusations. Here’s a timeline of the Kendrick and Drake beef and a breakdown of their new diss tracks.
Kendrick featured on “Like That”
Kendrick and Drake began out as cordial collaborators, with Drake that includes Kendrick on his 2011 track “Buried Alive Interlude” on his second studio album “Take Care” – simply after Kendrick launched his first studio album, “Part.80.”
In 2012, Kendrick opened for Drake throughout his Membership Paradise tour. Drake raps about this on 2016’s “4PM in Calabasas,” saying when he was advised to take an R&B singer on tour, “I advised ’em no and drew for Kendrick and [A$AP] Rocky.”
However over time, Kendrick and Drake have taken jabs at one another.
On 2023’s “First Individual Shooter,” a collaboration between Drake and J. Cole, Cole calls himself, Drake and Kendrick rap’s “massive three.”
But it surely appears Kendrick would not ascribe to that perception. He was featured on Future and Metro Boomin’s “Like That,” launched in March, saying there isn’t any massive three, “it is simply massive me.” That appeared to have sparked what’s now a large feud with back-to-back diss tracks launched by each Kendrick and Drake.
Drake’s “Pushups” disses Kendrick’s peak and expertise
On April 13, Drake, whose actual title is Aubrey Drake Graham, launched “Pushups,” a diss about Kendrick wherein he calls him a “pipsqueak,” and says he wears a measurement seven males’s shoe.
He additionally says Kendrick is not within the “Huge Three,” itemizing different artists who’re higher than Kendrick, and referencing Kendrick’s collaborations with Maroon 5 and Taylor Swift. Drake additionally takes swipes at different artists, like the Weeknd.
Kendrick’s title is just not talked about by Drake, solely within the intro by DJ Akademiks. However as the meat heats up, Kendrick and Drake begin to get extra blatant of their assaults on one another.
Drake releases “Taylor Made”
On April 19, Drake, 37, launched a second diss monitor about Kendrick known as “Taylor Made,” once more poking enjoyable at Kendrick’s peak, expertise and closeness to Taylor Swift.
He alleges Kendrick has not launched a diss monitor in response as a result of he was permitting Swift to launch her album “The Tortured Poets Division” on April 19 and have the highlight.
“The primary one actually solely took me an hour or two, The following one is actually ’bout to deliver out the coward in you, However now we gotta wait a f***ing week ‘trigger Taylor Swift is your new Prime, And in case you ’bout to drop, she gotta approve,” Drake raps.
Drake does, nevertheless, reward Swift because the “largest gangster within the music sport” and admits he additionally moved his album launch date to permit hers to drop first.
“Taylor Made,” nevertheless, featured AI-generated vocals from late rapper Tupac, and after Tupac Shakur’s property despatched Drake a cease-and-desist, Drake eliminated the track from all platforms, based on Billboard.
Kendrick responds with “Euphoria”
On April 30, Kendrick, 36, responded to Drake’s tracks with “Euphoria.” In it, he takes ruthless jabs at Drake, who’s the manager producer of the HBO present “Euphoria.”
Kendrick criticizes Drake’s parenting of his 6-year-old son, Adonis, rapping: “I acquired a son to lift, however I can see you do not know nothin’ ’bout that.” He says he teaches his son “morals, integrity, self-discipline,” however says Drake would not do this for his personal son.
He additionally takes jabs at Drake’s crew – OVO, or October’s Very Personal – and criticizes Drake, who’s half white, for appropriating Black tradition.
Kendrick’s “6:16 in LA” produced by Jack Antonoff
Drake famously has a number of songs with instances within the title, together with “9AM in Dallas,” “4pm in Calabasas,” and “6PM in New York.” The track’s title is a direct reference to those Drake tracks and the inclusion of producer Jack Antonoff seems to be a direct response to Drake’s “Taylor Made” track.
Antonoff is a frequent collaborator of Swift’s, producing “Fame,” “Lover,” “Folklore,” “Evermore,” “Midnights” and her latest album “The Tortured Poets Division.”
Kendrick was featured on Swift’s 2014 track “Unhealthy Blood,” which was on her “1989” album.
On Could 3, Kendrick, who’s also referred to as Ok.Dot, launched “6:16 in LA” on social media. Within the track, he alleges individuals who work for Drake’s OVO document label and attire firm dislike Drake and could also be secretly working for Kendrick.
Drake goes deeper with “Household Issues”
The identical day Kendrick dropped “6:16 in LA,” Drake launched “Household Issues,” an almost eight-minute track wherein he alleges one in every of Kendrick’s kids with longtime girlfriend Whitney Alford was really fathered by his supervisor, Dave Free.
He additionally alleges Kendrick alerted Tupac’s property about Drake’s utilization of an AI-generated Tupac verse. And, in one other scathing line, he alleges Kendrick pays for intercourse.
He additionally takes a jab on the Weeknd once more and at rapper Rick Ross, saying that utilizing Ozempic gave him a aspect impact of jealousy.
“Meet the Grahams” alleges Drake has a secret baby
In what is likely one of the extra scathing tracks within the backwards and forwards disses, Kendrick addresses Drake’s relations in “Meet the Grahams,” launched afterward Could 3. He raps to Drake’s son, saying, “Expensive Adonis, I am sorry that man is your father.”
He offers Adonis recommendation and raps: “And also you nothing like him, you will carry your self as king, cannot perceive me proper now? Simply play this whenever you 18.”
He additionally has verses that handle Drake’s mom and father. “Expensive Sandra, Your son acquired some habits, I hope you do not undermine them,” he raps. “Expensive Dennis, you gave beginning to a grasp manipulator,” he says.
In probably the most shocking verse, Kendrick begins off with the road “Expensive child woman,” alleging Drake had a daughter 11 years in the past and saved her hidden from the world. He offers the alleged daughter recommendation and describes Drake as a deadbeat dad who allegedly pays for intercourse.
“I wanna let you know that you just’re cherished, you are courageous, you are variety, you bought a present to vary the world, and will change your father’s thoughts,” he raps to Drake’s alleged daughter.
He additionally has a verse addressing Drake, making extra scathing allegations about Drake’s alleged playing and consuming habits and saying he responded this manner as a result of Drake spoke about his household.
Kendrick releases “Not Like Us”
In a Could 4 drop, “Not Like Us,” Kendrick makes disturbing accusations about Drake allegedly having inappropriate conduct with minors. He additionally makes related allegations about Drake’s mates and continues to query Drake’s expertise.
In his latest diss monitor, Drake denied these allegations, in addition to allegations about having a daughter.
Drake responds to allegations in “The Coronary heart Half 6”
In his most up-to-date album, 2022’s “Mr. Morale & the Huge Steppers,” Kendrick has a monitor known as “The Coronary heart Half 5.” Drake’s latest monitor, which dropped on Could 5, performs on this title and within the track, he responds to Kendrick’s bombshell allegations.
“The Pulitzer Prize winner is unquestionably spiralin,'” he begins, referring to Kendrick, who in 2017 turned the primary rapper to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music.
The quilt artwork on the monitor is a social media remark from Dave Free, the person Drake alleges is the precise father of one in every of Kendrick’s kids, with two coronary heart emojis.
Within the track, Drake says the individuals Kendrick is getting his details about Drake from are “clowns,” and that Drake’s workforce planted faux tales about an 11-year-old daughter to see if Kendrick would take the bait.
He additionally instantly addressed the allegations that he had inapropriate conduct with minors. “I by no means been with nobody underage, however now I perceive why this the angle that you just actually mess with,” he raps, saying he would’ve been arrested if the allegations have been true.
Followers at the moment are awaiting extra shock tracks from Kendrick, a 17-time Grammy winner from the Compton neighborhood of Los Angeles and Drake, a five-time Grammy winner from Toronto, Canada.
