The beef that drake And Kendrick Lamar They've got their hands on it and it's starting to become a real mess. After collaborating on the song “Poetic Justice” in 2012, the artists have maintained an on-again, off-again media relationship in recent years. But in November last year, bloody taunts through their songs began, and now the escalation is reaching an unprecedented level of aggressiveness in the world of 'tiraderas'. In addition to dealing with shady personal business, there has been a shooting around Drake's home involving a seriously injured individual, who, as police have confirmed, is part of his personal security.
The single that opened the hostilities between the two b-boys was 'First person shooter', a collaboration between Drake and J. Cole in which they, together with Kendrick Lamar, declared themselves the kings of hip-hop: «Love when they argue the hardest MC / Is the K.Dot? Is it Aubrey? Or me? / We the big three, as if we started a competition. But far from seeing it as a compliment, Lamar responded with another song called 'Like that' along with artists Future and Metro Boomin, stating that he was alone at the top, far above Drake and J. Cole: “Yeah, get up with me, fuck sneak dissing / 'First Person Shooter', I hope” she came with three switches / Motherfuck the big three, na, it's just a big me.” To make it clearer, he referred to the rivalry between Prince and Michael Jackson, comparing himself to the latter: “Your best work is a light suit / Na, Prince survived Mike Jack / Na, bum, 'fore all your dogs get buried / That's a K with all these nines, he's gonna see 'Pet Sematary'.
Certainly surprised and outraged by Lamar's response, Drake counterattacked twice with two simultaneous torpedoes: “Push Ups” and “Taylor Made Freestyle,” knocking that his rival would never have become famous without his collaborations with pop stars like Taylor Swift ('Bad Blood') and Maroon 5 ('Don't Wanna Know'): “You better do that damn show in the bity / Maroon 5 needs a look, you better make it funny / Then we gotta look at the Swifties/Top say drop, you better drop and give them 50.
Just ten days later, on April 30, Lamar released “Euphoria,” a song in which he fires all kinds of arrows at his Canadian rival: “You're not a rap artist, you a hustler hoping to be accepted / Tommy Hilfiger was out, but Fubu had never been your collection / Know you a master manipulator, and also a habitual liar / But don't tell a lie about me, and I won't tell any truths about you. He even makes fun of the way he walks, speaks and dresses: «It was always about love and hate, now let me say I'm the biggest hater / I hate the way you walk, the way you talk, I hate the the way you dress. And it only gets serious when families get involved. threatening to make someone close to Drake bleed: «Don't talk about the family, crodie / It can go deep into the family, crodie / Talk about me and my family, crodie? / Someone's going to bleed in your family, Crodie.
Without leaving time for Drake to respond, Lamar quickly published another grim “beef” on May 3 titled “6:16 in LA,” referencing the Canadian's singles with similar titles and Father's Day in the country of the mounted police. That same day, Drake uploaded “Family Matters,” hinting that one of Lamar's children might not actually be his.
Lamar must have already made his next rockets because it only took him hours to respond with “Meet the Grahams,” in which he directly appeals to members of Drake's family, claiming he has a secret daughter and pointing out that he is a sexual harasser. of underage girls. compared him to film producer Harvey Weinstein: “He and Weinstein should be locked up in a cell for the rest of their lives. He hates black women, hypersexualizes them with the features of a nymph fetish.” The next day, with “Not Like Us,” he upped the ante even further by directly calling him a “pedophile.”
How this bitter war will end is something even they themselves will not know yet. But the rumors that this is all nothing more than a marketing ploy are starting to lose steam, and the thing, more than a hilarious game of kicks between over-the-top rap stars, has become a very unpleasant soap opera that will eventually go to court.