Drake and Kendrick Lamar
Rap beef is picking up steam
Drake (left) and Kendrick Lamar engage in a verbal battle.
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Drake and Kendrick Lamar have a public exchange of blows. The rappers have released several diss tracks in a row.
US rapper Kendrick Lamar (36) and his Canadian colleague Drake (37) are currently causing a hotly debated rap beef. Within a few days and even hours, the musicians released several diss tracks.
Earlier this year, Lamar appeared to accuse Drake of “secret dissent” on “Like That” and called Drake’s song “First Person Shooter” by name. The beef has picked up steam since then. After Drake had already dealt against Lamar on “Push Ups”, among others, Lamar delivered his answer on Tuesday (April 30) with “Euphoria”. In the six-minute-long track, he insulted Drake for, among other things, his use of the N-word, his fashion sense and questioned his hip-hop merits.
Diss tracks get personal
This was followed on Friday (May 3rd) by his second diss track “6:16 in LA.”, to which Drake responded with the seven-minute-long “Family Matters.” In it he gets personal and, among other things, takes aim at Lamar’s relationship with his fiancée Whitney Alford. He also made an effort to give a clear visual indication of the diss against his colleague: On Lamar’s “Euphoria” he mentioned a Chinese restaurant called New Ho King in Toronto, and in the video for “Family Matters” Drake appears in exactly this restaurant . Of course, Lamar didn’t miss it and responded to Drake’s song with “Meet the Grahams.” In it he gets just as personal and addresses lines to Drake’s son, his mother, his father and an alleged daughter that Drake is said to have never mentioned. Rap fans can be excited to see how the beef, which is certainly not yet over, continues.