The feud between Kendrick Lamar and Drake continues to develop at a fast tempo, with every rapper releasing diss tracks directed on the different final evening (Could 3). The flurry of exercise adopted Lamar having dropped the track “6:16 in L.A.” earlier within the day, furthering a weeks-long dispute.
Drake’s “Household Issues” arrived first, with the artist warning that he now has “gotta go dangerous” along with his message for the reason that back-and-forth has turn into more and more heated. From there, he skewers Lamar’s relationship with fiancee Whitney Alford, questions the parentage of one in every of Lamar’s youngsters after which brazenly accuses Lamar of calling the Tupac Shakur property on Drake for copyright infringement.
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However maybe the road that may sting probably the most is aimed squarely at Lamar’s fame as a critic’s darling: “Kendrick simply opened his mouth / Somebody go hand him a Grammy proper now.”
Lamar took a extra inventive tact on his response observe, “Meet the Grahams,” on which a unique member of Drake’s household is addressed in every subsequent verse. “I’m sorry that man is your father,” he tells Drake’s six-year-old son, Adonis, earlier than then transferring on to Drake’s mother and father Sandra and Dennis after which referencing a “child lady” who’s implied to having been stored a secret by Drake.
“Needs to be teachin’ you timetables or watchin’ ‘Frozen’ with you / Or at your eleventh birthday, singin’ poems with you / As a substitute, he be in Turks, payin’ for intercourse and poppin’ Percs,” Lamar raps.
The artists have been taking pictures at one another in track since earlier this 12 months, satirically stemming from Drake’s 2023 observe “First Individual Shooter,” on which J. Cole proclaimed himself, Lamar and Drake to be the “Huge Three” of hip-hop. Lamar responded in late March with “Like That,” his first new track in two years. Various different rappers have turn into embroiled within the disses, together with J. Cole and Rick Ross.
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