Often regarded as one of the greatest rappers of all time, Kendrick Lamar took the hip-hop scene by storm when he was featured on the current #1 track on the Billboard music charts “Like That.”
“Like That” is a song on record producer Metro Boomin and rapper Future’s collaborative studio album titled “We Don’t Trust You.”
The album includes several shots at the Canadian-born artist Drake, but none like the one Lamar was featured on.
In the track during Lamar’s verse, he says “Mother***k the big three… it’s just big me.”
This line from Lamar is a direct reference to the idea of himself, Drake and J. Cole being referred to as the top three rappers of the mid-2000s generation.
Cole initially referenced this idea earlier this year on a collaborative track with Drake titled “First Person Shooter” where he says, “Love when they argue the hardest MC. Is it K-Dot (Kendrick Lamar), is it Aubrey (Drake), or me (J. Cole)? We the big three like we started a league.”
Clearly, Lamar wants no part in the big three argument as he thinks the two aren’t in the same conversation as him.
Cole was the first to act in response to Lamar’s verse off the track “Like That” by dropping a diss track of his own titled “7 Minute Drill” where he decided to throw shots at Lamar’s discography.
“Your first s**t was classic, your last s**t was tragic,” Cole says in the song. “Your second s**t put people to sleep, but they gassed it. Your third s**t was massive and that was your prime. I was trailin’ right behind and now I just hit mine.”
In this verse alone, you can hear Cole is still giving Lamar props for his albums that had massive success and is hesitant to fully disrespect his fellow peer. Only two days after the release of “7 Minute Drill,” Cole publicly announced an apology to Lamar and officially took down the track from all streaming platforms.
Drake chose to take a different approach and fired back with a diss track of his own titled “Push Ups.” In the track, he is heard firing a flurry of shots primarily at the likes of Lamar, Metro Boomin and Rick Ross.
“You ain’t in no big three. SZA got you wiped down. Travis got you wiped down. Savage got you wiped down,” Drake said referring back to the idea of the big three and how there are other artists that are better than Lamar.
Drake then goes after Metro Boomin saying, “Metro shut your ho a** up and make some drums.” It’s disrespectful in the sense that Metro isn’t a rapper and only makes beats so he can’t necessarily respond by making a track of his own.
Drake then adds more fuel to the fire by bringing up Ross.
“Can’t believe he jumpin’ in. This dude turnin’ 50. Every song that made it on the chart, he got from Drizzy,” referring to himself saying the most popular songs from Ross have a Drake feature.
On the very same day that Drake’s diss was going around. Ross went right to the studio and dropped a track of his own titled “Champagne Moments” directly responding to Drake.
Ross has no filter in his response, calling Drake a “white boy” and exposing him on personal matters such as an alleged plastic surgery operation to make his nose smaller.
Ross has also taken to social media posting several stories on Instagram speaking directly to Drake, but we have yet to see any word from Lamar.
Amidst the wait for a response, Drake took matters into his own hands and released another track exclusively on Instagram that has since then been taken down aimed directly at Lamar titled “Taylor Made Freestyle.”
Drake toyed with Lamar on this track using AI to emulate vocals from 2Pac and Snoop Dogg that are featured on the track. The two rappers are Lamar’s idols as West Coast rap legends.
“I guess you need another week to figure out how to improve,” Drake says, referring to Lamar. “What the f**k is taking so long, we waitin’ on you.”
Two weeks after Drake responded to the diss of “Like That,” fans were speculating whether or not Lamar would respond and he did with the track titled “Euphoria.”
“euphoria” was released on all platforms on April 30 and there is a lot to unpack.
In a runtime of six minutes and 23 seconds, Lamar raps through three different beats and directly comes at Drake.
“I hate the way that you walk, the way that you talk, I hate the way that you dress,” Lamar says in the song.
Lamar goes further in saying Drake doesn’t have a classic.
“Yeah, my first one like my last one, it’s a classic, you don’t have one. Let your core audience stomach that, then tell ‘em where you get your abs from,” insinuating Drake also got plastic surgery on his abs.
He then decides to make it even more personal by bringing up Drake’s fatherhood saying he knows nothing about raising a son such as teaching him morals and discipline.
The question now is, how will Drake respond to this?
