Kendrick Lamar and Drake have every released several ruthless diss tracks in opposition to one another over the previous week, taking jabs at peak and model and making allegations about every others’ youngsters and different disturbing accusations. Here is 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 music “Buried Alive Interlude” on his second studio album “Take Care” – simply after Kendrick released his first studio album, “Section.80.”
In 2012, Kendrick opened for Drake throughout his Club Paradise tour. Drake raps about this on 2016’s “4PM in Calabasas,” saying when he was informed to take an R&B singer on tour, “I told ’em no and drew for Kendrick and [A$AP] Rocky.”
But through the years, Kendrick and Drake have taken jabs at one another.
On 2023’s “First Person Shooter,” a collaboration between Drake and J. Cole, Cole calls himself, Drake and Kendrick rap’s “big three.”
But it appears Kendrick would not ascribe to that perception. He was featured on Future and Metro Boomin’s “Like That,” released in March, saying there isn’t a massive three, “it’s just big me.” That appeared to have sparked what’s now a huge feud with back-to-back diss tracks released 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, released “Pushups,” a diss about Kendrick through which he calls him a “pipsqueak,” and says he wears a dimension seven males’s shoe.
He additionally says Kendrick is not within the “Big 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. But as the meat heats up, Kendrick and Drake begin to get extra blatant in their assaults on one another.
Drake releases “Taylor Made”
On April 19, Drake, 37, released a second diss observe 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 released a diss observe in response as a result of he was permitting Swift to launch her album “The Tortured Poets Department” on April 19 and have the highlight.
“The first one really only took me an hour or two, The next one is really ’bout to bring out the coward in you, But now we gotta wait a f***ing week ’cause Taylor Swift is your new Top, And if you ’bout to drop, she gotta approve,” Drake raps.
Drake does, nonetheless, reward Swift because the “biggest gangster in the music game” and admits he additionally moved his album launch date to permit hers to drop first.
“Taylor Made,” nonetheless, featured AI-generated vocals from late rapper Tupac, and after Tupac Shakur’s property despatched Drake a cease-and-desist, Drake eliminated the music from all platforms, according to 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 got a son to raise, but I can see you don’t know nothin’ ’bout that.” He says he teaches his son “morals, integrity, discipline,” however says Drake would not try this for his personal son.
He additionally takes jabs at Drake’s crew – OVO, or October’s Very Own – and criticizes Drake, who’s half white, for appropriating Black tradition.
Kendrick’s “6:16 in LA” produced by Jack Antonoff
Drake famously has several songs with occasions within the title, together with “9AM in Dallas,” “4pm in Calabasas,” and “6PM in New York.” The music’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” music.
Antonoff is a frequent collaborator of Swift’s, producing “Reputation,” “Lover,” “Folklore,” “Evermore,” “Midnights” and her latest album “The Tortured Poets Department.”
Kendrick was featured on Swift’s 2014 music “Bad Blood,” which was on her “1989” album.
On May 3, Kendrick, who’s also called Okay.Dot, released “6:16 in LA” on social media. In the music, he alleges individuals who work for Drake’s OVO file label and attire firm dislike Drake and could also be secretly working for Kendrick.
Drake goes deeper with “Family Matters”
The identical day Kendrick dropped “6:16 in LA,” Drake released “Family Matters,” a almost eight-minute music through which he alleges one of Kendrick’s youngsters with longtime girlfriend Whitney Alford was truly 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 facet impact of jealousy.
“Meet the Grahams” alleges Drake has a secret little one
In what’s one of the extra scathing tracks within the again and forth disses, Kendrick addresses Drake’s members of the family in “Meet the Grahams,” released afterward May 3. He raps to Drake’s son, saying, “Dear Adonis, I’m sorry that man is your father.”
He offers Adonis recommendation and raps: “And you nothing like him, you’ll carry yourself as king, can’t understand me right now? Just play this when you 18.”
He additionally has verses that deal with Drake’s mom and father. “Dear Sandra, Your son got some habits, I hope you don’t undermine them,” he raps. “Dear Dennis, you gave birth to a master manipulator,” he says.
In probably the most shocking verse, Kendrick begins off with the road “Dear baby girl,” 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 tell you that you’re loved, you’re brave, you’re kind, you got a gift to change the world, and could change your father’s mind,” he raps to Drake’s alleged daughter.
He additionally has a verse addressing Drake, making extra scathing allegations about Drake’s alleged playing and ingesting habits and saying he responded this fashion as a result of Drake spoke about his household.
Kendrick releases “Not Like Us”
In a May 4 drop, “Not Like Us,” Kendrick makes disturbing accusations about Drake allegedly having inappropriate conduct with minors. He additionally makes comparable allegations about Drake’s pals and continues to query Drake’s expertise.
In his latest diss observe, Drake denied these allegations, in addition to allegations about having a daughter.
Drake responds to allegations in “The Heart Part 6”
In his most up-to-date album, 2022’s “Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers,” Kendrick has a observe known as “The Heart Part 5.” Drake’s latest observe, which dropped on May 5, performs on this title and within the music, he responds to Kendrick’s bombshell allegations.
“The Pulitzer Prize winner is definitely spiralin,'” he begins, referring to Kendrick, who in 2017 grew to become the primary rapper to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music.
The cowl artwork on the observe is a social media remark from Dave Free, the person Drake alleges is the precise father of one of Kendrick’s youngsters, with two coronary heart emojis.
In the music, Drake says the folks Kendrick is getting his details about Drake from are “clowns,” and that Drake’s group planted faux tales about an 11-year-old daughter to see if Kendrick would take the bait.
He additionally straight addressed the allegations that he had inapropriate conduct with minors. “I never been with no one underage, but now I understand why this the angle that you really mess with,” he raps, saying he would’ve been arrested if the allegations had been true.
Fans are actually 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.
