Kendrick Lamar and his confrontation with Drake was largely anticipated to be a confrontation however has reworked into an enormous cultural second that transcends the battle. Okay-Dot’s blistering “Not Like Us” landed the highest spot on the Billboard Scorching 100 charts and gave DJ Mustard his first No. 1 debut.
Kendrick Lamar, 36, threw the primary of essentially the most present pictures within the course of Drake (and J. Cole) on the comparatively tame “Like That” monitor from Future and Metro Boomin’s WE DON’T TRUST YOU collaborative album. From there, the stakes had been raised when J. Cole fired again however retracted his diss monitor “7 Minute Drill” within the identify of friendship.
Drake then leaked the monitor “Push Ups” earlier than formally releasing the track and egging on the meat by daring Lamar to reply. Upping the ante, the Canadian celebrity then launched the “Taylor Made Freestyle” utilizing AI-generated 2Pac and Snoop Dogg voices geared toward Lamar, which the property of the late Tupac Shakur later took down.
Lamar returned the volley with “euphoria” which can also be within the prime 10 of the Scorching 100 and simply days later with “6:16 in LA” which prompted Drake to drop “Household Issues,” a monitor that’s at present charting within the Scorching 100 prime 10 together with “Not Like Us” and “Like That.”
All of it went left with Lamar’s creepy “Meet The Grahams,” which sits at No. 12 on the Scorching 100, and “Not Like Us” got here instantly after. It was an efficient one-two punch as “Meet The Grahams” is sonically darker than “Not Like Us” with the latter now turning into the track of the summer time.
Drake’s closing salvo, “The Coronary heart Half 6,” was seen as him waving the white flag and transferring on from the battle. And so far as followers go, Kendrick Lamar is decidedly the winner of this feud.
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