The “beef” match between these two male rappers is being watched by a large number of rap fans.

The global rap fan community is paying special attention to the “big battle” between two male rappers Drake and Kendrick Lamar. In just the past 3 days, both male rappers have released a total of 5-6 diss tracks targeting each other, drawing many rappers into the fray, with increasingly harsh language attacking each other. What happened? What “hatred” from the past happened to lead to this fratricidal war?

From collaborators to sworn “enemies”.

Back many years ago, from 2011, Drake and Kendrick Lamar were then two extremely famous male rappers. Drake was then Kendrick Lamar’s senior and the two had a friendly relationship when Drake always appreciated and sought to combine with Kendrick in his products. We can mention the collaboration in Drakee’s highly appreciated album by experts – Take Care. In 2012, Drake continued to invite Kendrick Lamar as the opening artist for his famous Club Paradise Tour.

In October 2012, Drake and Kendrick Lamar appeared together on A$AP Rocky’s album – F*****n’ Problems. Kendrick even invited Drake to collaborate on the track Poetic Justice from his album considered a masterpiece: goodkid, m.A.A.d city. However, it was also the last product that Drake and Kendrick Lamar worked together.

From a potential name, the album goodkid, m.A.A.d city has brought Kendrick to the top of the world rap scene thanks to the depth, exploitation of reality and high artistry of this album. This gives Kendrick confidence and an extremely “aggressive” spirit in his quest to revive the competition of the rap industry. The turning point happened when Kendrick Lamar directly called Drake’s name along with 11 other rappers (J. Cole, Meek Mill, Drake, Big K.R.I.T., Wale, Pusha T, ASAP Rocky, Tyler, the Creator, Mac Miller, Big Sean and Jay Electronica ) on the track Control with Big Sean. Kendrick’s strong attitude shook the rap world: “I love you all, but I’m trying to kill you!…” – Kendrick’s arrogant statement shows his competitive spirit when he wants rising to become the king of New York’s rap scene, while also showing that his desire to promote competition among top rappers is gradually eroding.

And this is where the fight started, with Drake responding to Kendrick’s “provocation” of appearing on the Billboard cover that same month, telling the publication: “I don’t really have anything to say about it. To me, it just seems like ambitious thinking. All of that only. I know clearly that Lamar cannot kill me, on any platform!” Since then, during the period 2013 – 2016, for 3 years, both of them still released a number of tracks aimed at each other, But it hasn’t flared up into any major battles. The tension between the two is gradually being forgotten, as if it could be forgotten, but no!

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Everything changed since 2023. In October 2023, Drake collaborated with J.Cole – who is also considered one of the top lyrical rappers – to release the track First Person Shooter, immediately rising to the top position. Billboard Hot 100 champion. Notably, J.Cole’s verse evoked the name Kendrick Lamar, mentioning the “resentment” of the past, when questioning whether J.Cole, Drake or Kendrick is the great rapper. most currently?

In March 2024, Kendrick Lamar collaborated on the track Like That with Future and Metro Boomin. Kendrick used rap lyrics to directly attack Drake and J.Cole and said that there are no “3 strongest people, only you are the greatest”, in order to affirm his number 1 position in the rap industry. . Drake is currently focusing on the It’s All A Blur Big tour. In many statements on the tour, he also implicitly criticized Kendrick Lamar, confident about his position that has never wavered.

In early April, J.Cole released the album Might Delete Later, in which netizens paid special attention to the track “7 Minutes Drill” – a diss track for Kendrick. However, just a few short days later, J.Cole appeared at a show and apologized to Kendrick, sharing that it was that song that made him feel extremely regretful for what he had done. it’s not true to who you are. Even acknowledged that Kendrick is one of the greatest artists of all time. After that, J.Cole deleted this diss track on all of his platforms.

In April 2024, Drake released a diss track right in Kendrick’s face called Push Ups. But that was just the “opening” part, most notably on April 24, Drake released the track Taylor Made Freestyle. Drake uses A.I. rap in the voices of Tupac and Snoop Dogg, two male rappers who greatly influenced Drake. Drake in the rap expressed disappointment with Kendrick because he has not yet responded to Push Ups. Drake even cited the release of Taylor Swift’s new album, The Tortured Poets Department, as the reason why Kendrick didn’t dare release a response track.

On April 30, 2024, Kendrick Lamar officially responded to Drake with a 6-minute diss track titled “euphoria”. The diss rap has harsh words, showing a “bloodthirsty” Kendrick who hates Drake, mocks the fact that Drake likes to hang out with much younger women, and even insinuates that Drake is gay, trying to appear as if he is gay. gangsta and not “black” enough to do hiphop. Kendrick even went so far as to fake a Canadian accent to mock Drake and belittle the rapper for not being worthy of being a father.

On May 3, 2024, Kendrick continued to release his second response track in less than 72 hours after Euphoria – a track called 6:16 in LA. In this track, Kendrick calls Drake’s brothers “backstabbers” and claims he has insiders at Drake’s record label to spy on him. In this track, Kendrick also “high-handedly” invited Jack Antonoff (the “intestine” music producer, closest to Taylor Swift) to be the producer, as a way to respond to Drake’s stinging track Taylor Made Freestyle.

14 hours after Kendrick’s track hit the airwaves, Drake responded to Family Matters. This time Drake attacked Kendrick’s more personal issues, hinting at Kendrick’s troubled relationship with his fiancee Whitney Alford, accusing Kendrick of having an affair and “touching” her, even continuing to bodysham Kendrick because of the rapper’s modest height.

In just 19 minutes since Drake’s Family Matters, Kendrick responded to Drake with the track “meet the grahams”. This time, Kendrick sent a letter to Drake’s family, including Drake’s son, parents, and grandfather. In addition to attacking Drake’s fatherhood, Kendrick said that Drake has a child of his own, a girl, who is very chaotic and has many other children outside, hiding his children’s mothers. Kendrick continued to warn Drake and accused him of having problems with alcohol, gambling, and suspected Drake of harboring a pedophile.

Kendrick also took aim at Drake’s son, about using a “ghost writer” (asking someone else to write the lyrics but buying them off, receiving credit for his part), about suspicions of plastic surgery. However, later, Drake also posted a sarcastic story about Kendrick’s “fact” about him having a child of his own, challenging anyone to find the daughter he hid as in Kendrick’s rap lyrics. There are many sources claiming that Drake intentionally spread false information to trick Kendrick into using this information.

And most recently, Kendrick has just released Not Like Us, this time pointing directly at Drake as a pedophile who likes to know young girls. Kendrick also posted a picture of Drake’s house with a symbol of a sexual assaulter. Currently, Drake still has no response after 3 consecutive harsh response tracks from Kendrick Lamar!