Kendrick vs Drake: Who is Your Pick?

In recent days you will surely have heard about the feud between Kendrick Lamar and Drake, which involves a whole series of satellite rappers and producers, from Rick Ross to Asap Rocky, from Metro Boomin to The Weeknd.

 The feud, dormant for several years, was born from a barbeque from J Cole a few years ago, who defined himself, Drake and Kendrick as the "big three". Like the best of revenge, several years later Kendrick made it known that this personal podium didn't really suit him, thus starting to attack Cole and Drake. If the former, however, at a certain point - after having also published a response track to the first diss, which was subsequently deleted - decided not to take part in the feud, Drake decided to ride as best he could instead, showing us the two sides of the dissing . From Like That, Kendrick's verse in Metro Boomin and Future's album, we arrived at Push Ups, Drake's first response, in which the Canadian mocked Kendrick and those who had started attacking him. He responded to Kendrick with his ironic manner. 

Hendrick’s response takes a while, so Drake continues on the path of teasing his colleague: Taylor Made Freestyle is released on Instagram, a track in which Drake even bothers the A.I., adding two fake verses, one by Tupac, one by Snoop Dogg (symbols of LA, which Kendrick should have inherited), to ensure that the answer doesn't take long to arrive. 

But if sayings exist it is because, essentially, they have a grain of truth. Don't wake up a sleeping dog is therefore the most appropriate saying for this timeline. So, eleven days after this freestyle by Drake, comes Euphoria, a six-minute track by Kendrick that shows us the other side of the dissing coin: if Drake gives the impression of playing, of having fun, Kendrick seems to have the only driving force is hatred. Kendrick attacks Drake on his parenting skills, on his possible use of plastic surgery to improve his appearance and-of course-on his rapping skills. 

Six minutes, however, don't seem to be enough for Kendrick who, a few days later, comes out with 6:16 on Instagram, which essentially brings out the new theme of this diss: the LA rapper has a mole inside OVO, the label Drake.

In the meantime, Drake catches up and on the same day publishes Family Matters, in which we begin to get into real gossip, the other real driving force of modern dissing. Drake accuses Kendrick of fathering a child that isn't his.

From here come two tracks by Kendrick Lamar, the hardest: Meet the Grahams, a letter to Drake's family, in which he regrets Adonis for having such an absent father, with Drake's mother for having a pedophile son and with a alleged eleven-year-old daughter never acknowledged by Drake for having been abandoned.

But the theme of pedophilia is precisely at the center of the latest track released so far by Kendrick Not Like Us: on the cover, Drake's house is pinned with the markers used for sex offenders. A theme that has been circulating about Drake for a long time, especially in the form of memes, given his closeness to characters like Milly Brown from Stranger Things, who dated the Canadian rapper when he was still a minor. A track of unique brutality, which receives an inadequate response.

 

Released this week, Drake's The Heart Part 6 doesn't directly respond - or at least minimally - to Kendrick's accusations, but it adds another layer to the feud: the mole Kendrick boasted about is actually doing the double play. All the information that Kendrick received from Drake was conveyed by the Canadian himself, according to what he says in the song. While Euphoria and Not Like Us are dominating the charts of American streaming services and beyond, The Heart Part 6 is the most disliked track on YouTube in Drake's history and seems too vague an answer for an audience that wanted blood. Although Kendrick promised to still have 5 shots in the barrel, it seems that as often happens, this diss ended due to the poor response from one of the two parties involved. Never say never, but unfortunately rap's greatest form of entertainment over the last month seems to have come to an end.

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Hi, I’m Carlo Muzi, I’m 16 years old and in my free time I like taking naps and training hard both in the gym and in the swimming pool. I'm glad to be part of LET'S BLOG! staff and share my passions and interests with all of you.