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Reacting to the destruction of drake @JAMARISPEAKS
This past weekend, after a month of flirting with open warfare, the battle Drake and Kendrick Lamar finally tipped over into three days of exhilarating back-and-forth, and we’re still feeling the aftershocks. 2024’s biggest rap beef reached its presumed conclusion Sunday night with Drake’s despondent “The Heart Part 6,” but the online world hasn’t stopped reacting. The West Coast is treating “Not Like Us” like a triumphant battle cry. Educators are dissecting the lyrical complexities of the disses. Superfans of both artists appear to be spiraling.
Kendrick and Drake are the two most prominent rap superstars of the millennial generation, and over the years they’ve been framed as each other’s antithesis— Kendrick, the tastefully restrained storyteller who pops out every few years when he really has something on his heart to share, versus Drake, the decadent, ever-present workaholic who’s never let more than a few months of his 17-year career pass without releasing new material. Their struggle to upstage each other—culminating in the release of six tracks between them just in the last week alone— offered no shortage of spectacle. Drake used A.I. to troll Kendrick in the voices of his West Coast heroes to strike a nerve on “Taylor Made Freestyle”; Kendrick responded, on “Euphoria,” by paraphrasing the late DMX’s anti-Drake sentiments, drawing blood in a lower-tech way. “6:16” samples “What A Wonderful Thing Love Is,” a 1972 Al Green song that features Drake’s uncle Teenie Hodges on guitar; Drake promoted “Family Matters” on his Instagram by sharing “Buried Alive Interlude, Pt. 2,” named for a song from his 2011 Take Care album that featured Kendrick back when things were copacetic. Both rappers also swiped each other’s trademarks: Kendrick’s “6:16 in LA” played on Drake’s timestamp-in-a-specific-city song-titling convention, while Drake pulled a Young Thug Barter 6-esque move by naming his final entry “The Heart Part 6,” after Kendrick’s career-spanning series of the same name.