1) Drake - "Push Ups" (April 19, 2024)
This was Drake's first direct response to Lamar’s verse on Future’s song, “Like That,” where he fired back at the idea of a “Big 3” in rap (including himself, Drake, and J. Cole), rapping, “Motherf*** the big three, nigga, it's just big me.”
In response, Drake targeted the “HUMBLE.” rapper’s height in lines like “How the f*** you big steppin' with a size-seven men's on?” He also targets Lamar’s record deals.
2) Drake - "Taylor Made Freestyle" (April 19, 2024)
Drake released "Taylor Made Freestyle" on the same day as “Push Ups.” This track used AI-generated impersonations of late rapper Tupac Shakur and Snoop Dogg to insult Kendrick. However, the rapper was forced to take the song down due to copyright infringement and a lawsuit filed by Shakur’s estate.
Notably, the track also made references to Taylor Swift, releasing on the same day as her latest album, “The Tortured Poets Department.” Drake claimed that Kendrick had not released any music because Swift had banned him from doing so before the release of her album.
3) Kendrick Lamar - “Euphoria” (April 30, 2024)
Lamar responded to Drake eleven days later with a diss track titled “euphoria.” In the track, he criticizes Drake's cultural appropriation, struggles with Blackness and his role as a father.
Lamar raps, “How many more Black features 'til you finally feel that you're Black enough?”
4) Kendrick Lamar - “6:16 in LA” (May 3, 2024)
In a similar fashion, Lamar also released two tracks within a short time frame, with “6:16 in LA” debuting only three days after his last track.
The title references Drake's tendency to use timestamps in his music and samples a song by Al Green, whose guitarist was Drake's uncle.
Kendrick also implied that he knew someone in Drake's team feeding him information, hinting at a potential leak.
5) Drake - “Family Matters” (May 3, 2024)
Drake responded on the same day with a new song, “Family Matters.” The music video includes references to Kendrick's past albums.
In the lyrics, Drake throws serious accusations at Kendrick, alleging domestic abuse, infidelity, and even claims someone else fathered one of Kendrick's children.
He raps, “They hired a crisis management team to clean up the fact that you beat on your queen.”
6) Kendrick Lamar - “meet the grahams” (May 3, 2024)
Lamar then immediately released “meet the grahams,” which marked the third diss track released on May 3.
Taking aim at Drake's family life, Lamar accuses him of having a secret daughter and potential other children, “You lied about your son, you lied about your daughter, huh / You lied about them other kids that's out there hopin' that you come.”
7) Kendrick Lamar - "Not Like Us" (May 4, 2024)
Lamar’s latest track is directed at Drake and his crew. Here, Kendrick calls Drake and his team “pedophiles,” with the song’s cover art depicting Drake's mansion with sexual predator markers.
8) Drake - “The Heart Part 6” (May 5, 2024)
The most recent track in the heated exchange is Drake’s “The Heart Part 6,” with the title referencing Lamar’s series of songs titled, “The Heart,” separated into five parts.
In the song, Drake responds to allegations of pedophilia, directly addressing a controversy involving him and actor Millie Bobby Brown, who spoke about their frequent text conversations when she was 14.
Drake denied all accusations in the song, “I never been with no one underage.”
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