Drake and Kendrick Lamar are about to deepen their feud with the whole family.
On Friday night, the rappers released a blistering diss track about gossip and Ozempic, while also raising serious allegations of abuse, addiction and another illegitimate child.
Taking aim at Lamar’s back-to-back diss songs “Euphoria” and “6:16 in LA,” Drake released “Family Matters” and its corresponding lyric video and interlude just before midnight Friday. About 37 minutes later, Lamar responded, “Let’s meet Mr. and Mrs. Graham.”
Drake has claimed that Lamar physically abused his fiancée, that Lamar’s child may not be his, and that the California rapper was leading a double life filled with infidelity. ing. Lamar says Drake has a secret daughter, is addicted to gambling and drugs, has a predator on his label’s pay scale, and that she should be in a “cell” with Harvey Weinstein. claims.
‘Meet the Grahams’ lyrics: Kendrick Lamar speaks directly to Adonis, Drake’s mother Sandra
The response, which lasts more than six minutes, shows Lamar talking to Drake’s family, including his 6-year-old son Adonis. her mother Sandra Graham; Her father is Dennis Graham. And her alleged daughter, whom Drake has not publicly claimed.
Lamar raps to Adonis, “It’s too bad that man is your father, let me be honest/It takes a man to be a man, your father is unresponsive,” while Drake sings Ozempic. He claimed to have hired bodyguards and hinted that: The rapper has undergone a Brazilian butt lift (also known as BBL).
Regarding Drake’s parents, Lamar tells his mother that Drake “has a quirk” and tells his father, “You have created a master manipulator.”
“His gambling addiction is all your fault/Psychopath instincts, a guy who likes to play the victim,” Lamar raps. “He and Weinstein should spend ‘the rest of their lives in solitary confinement,'” Lamar said, adding: “He hates black women and oversexualizes them in a slutty fetish twist/He grows a beard because he understands that he’s just a beard. More fitting/He “catches sex offenders and keeps it going with his monthly pocket money” at his record label OVO.
Lamar’s final dagger: Drake reportedly has an 11-year-old daughter. “Dear baby / I’m sorry your dad isn’t active in your world,” Lamar raps, later adding. Poetry with you / Instead, he turns into a Turk and pays to pop sex and Perth. ”
Drake fired back on his Instagram Story on Saturday, writing, “Wait a minute, someone please find my hidden daughter and send it to me…these people are fucked up,” along with a laughing emoji.
On “Euphoria,” Lamar references the 2019 feud between the Toronto-born rapper and Pusha T, revealing that Drake had a child with him, although it was unknown to the public at the time.
Lamar ends “Meet the Grahams” by going on and on about how Drake “lied.” ”
Listen to “Meet the Grahams”
Listen to Lamar’s “Meet the Grahams” on YouTube.
Drake alleges abuse against Kendrick Lamar, takes aim at A$AP Rocky and Rick Ross on ‘Family Matters’: Lyrics
Divided into three sections, “Family Matters” starts at 7 minutes and 37 seconds. “Empty the clip with a friendly jab/You mentioned my kind, now deal with his father/I gotta be bad, gotta be bad” Drake raps at the beginning of the track, which picks up the position of his previous diss track “Push Up”, which was discontinued.
Drake questions Lamar’s street cred (“But in the real world, this private gang, this PC”) and beefs with J. Cole, saying, “Cole loses sleep over this, it’s not me.” Citing the involvement of
“I always rap like I’m trying to free the slaves/I just act like I’m an activist, it’s a lie,” Drake raps. “Don’t even go back to the hood and plant money trees,” alludes to Lamar’s song “Money Trees.”
The lyric video includes the cover art for Lamar’s album Good Kid Married City (Drake is featured on “Poetic Justice”), the van being crushed by a compactor, a Toronto restaurant, Drake is also seen eating at New Ho King. Lamar rapped on “Euphoria.”
“You’re a black savior surrounding a mixed queen/And hitting vanilla cream to help self-esteem,” Drake claims. “Don’t blame me when you could have left the kids out of this/You’re a dog and you know it, you’re just acting sweet/Baby mama’s captions always say ‘ I’m screaming, ‘Help me!’
Drake has more specifically claimed that Lamar physically abused his fiancée, Whitney Alford. “Is putting her hand on her self-defense because she’s bigger than you?”
“Why did you move to New York? ‘Cause I’m single?/She proposed in 2015, but I don’t want her to be my real wife,” Drake raps, later adding, “They put a crisis team in I hired him,” he added. This is to clear up the fact that you hit the Queen. ”
He also questions whether one of Lamar’s children is actually the father of Dave Free, the former president of Lamar’s record label, Top Dog Entertainment. “I heard one of their little kids might be Dave Free,” Drake raps. “Don’t make it Dave Free’s thing/Cause if your guy’s GM is your BM secret BD/Then this makes a lot of (expletive) sense to me.”
Drake also has a crush on A$AP Rocky, with whom he is currently dating and has two children with his ex-Rihanna.
“You hit my BM first so I gassed you,” Drake raps, adding, “Do the math, who hit me then?/When you were still rapping.” You don’t even know ’cause all they talk about is you feeling better again/Maybe you should have another baby before you even think about dropping something (expletive) again/ Even if he dropped, they’d say, “You should’ve modeled because you’re half-assed again,” and he added, “I’m smoking Fenty about it.” ”
Drake raps, “Ozempik felt the side effects of jealousy,” and points out Ross’ past as a correctional officer, saying, “Rick reads me my Miranda rights,” and goes on to say that Ozempic’s claims are against Rick Ross. being sent towards.
USA TODAY has reached out to representatives for Drake and Lamar for comment on the allegations.
Listen to “Family Matters”
Listen to Drake’s “Family Matters” on YouTube or stream it on Spotify.
Kendrick Lamar and Drake’s feud explained
Lamar and Drake’s feud dates back more than a decade, with Lamar rapping in Big Sean’s song “Control” in 2013 that he wanted to “murder” Drake and other prominent rappers.
Earlier this year, Lamar appeared on Future and Metro Boomin’s “Like That” and rejected the idea that there was a “big three” in rap, declaring in the song, “It’s just the Big Me.” . The lyrics were a response to J. Cole calling himself, Drake, and Lamar the “Big Three” in Drake’s 2023 song “First Person Shooter.”
J. Cole responded to Lamar in April with the song “7 Minute Drill,” rapping, “He’s still doing the show, but he’s down like ‘The Simpsons.'” He also rapped that Lamar was past his “prime years.” However, shortly after releasing the song, Cole apologized, saying he was “lame” and “stupid” for doing so.
“I’m not going to lie, I’ve felt terrible the last two days,” he told an audience at the Dreamville Festival a few days later, going on to call Lamar “one of the greatest.”
Drake then hit back with two songs dissing Lamar, “Push Ups” and “Taylor Made Freestyle,” the latter of which was removed from streaming services after Shakur’s estate threatened to sue. . (On “Family Matters,” Drake claims that Lamar “called Tupac’s estate and begged him to sue me.”)
Lamar references this on the follow-up, “Euphoria,” when he raps that Shakur is “in the grave.”
Lamar continued on “Euphoria”: “How many more fairytale stories about your life until I’m tired of it? How many more times do I feature black people until I finally feel like I’m black enough?” of?”
On “Euphoria,” Lamar praises Drake’s song “Back to Back,” saying, “I loved that record.” The 2015 single was a diss track directed at rapper Meek Mill and served as a follow-up to Drake’s first diss song, “Charged Up.”
Lamar then released his own “6:16 in LA” in quick succession. Lamar criticized Drake’s label and team, and she rapped, “Did you ever think OVO was working for me?” Before you call Drake a “fake bully.” He continues, “I hate bullies/You must be a terrible person/Everyone on the team whispers that you deserve it.”
With this title, fans dived down the rabbit hole to collect all the easter eggs regarding Lamar’s Canadian enemies. The song’s title is an obvious reference to the timestamp song format popularized by Drake, but it also celebrates Father’s Day, Tupac Shakur’s birthday, the premiere date of HBO’s “Euphoria” series, and Drake’s hometown. It is also possible that it refers to June 16, the date of a certain Lamar concert. Toronto.
Contributors: Taijuan Moorman, Naledi Ushe, Brendan Morrow, KiMi Robinson
