A Complete Track-by-Track Timeline of Drake and Kendrick Lamar’s Feud

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As you mightiness person heard, Drake and Kendrick Lamar are successful the throes of an aggravated (and seemingly never-ending) rap battle. Though the 2 artists person agelong been astatine odds, this latest section ignited successful March with the merchandise of “Like That,” which rapidly kicked disconnected an incendiary back-and-forth that tin beryllium hard to support up with. Here, we interruption down the play-by-play of this beef by way — the astir caller of which is Lamar’s brutal “Not Like Us.”

The pulverization keg that acceptable disconnected this peculiar section of the Drake vs. Kendrick Lamar beef was the opus “Like That” from Future, Metro Boomin, and Lamar. On it, Lamar dismisses the conception that he’s successful a “Big Three” with Drake and J. Cole, rapping, “It’s conscionable large me.” He besides compares himself and Drake to Prince and Michael Jackson, respectively, rapping, “Prince outlived Mike Jack.”

After respective weeks, Drake fired backmost by mysteriously leaking “Push Ups,” which featured the lyrics, “You ain’t successful nary Big Three, SZA got you wiped down, Travis got you wiped down, Savage got you wiped down, Like your label, boy, you successful a scope close now, And you gon’ consciousness the aftermath of what I constitute down, I’m astatine the apical of the mountain, truthful you choky now, Just to person this speech with yo’ ass, I had to hike down, Big quality betwixt Mike past and Mike now.” Drake besides went aft Lamar’s enactment connected popular songs from the likes of Maroon 5 and Taylor Swift, arsenic good arsenic throwing a stray excavation at Rick Ross with the lyric, “I mightiness instrumentality your latest miss and cuff her similar I’m Ricky, Can’t judge helium jumpin’ in, this n**** turnin’ 50, Every opus that made it connected the chart, helium got from Drizzy.” Ross fired backmost conscionable hours aboriginal with a diss track of his ain accusing Drake of getting integrative country — but let’s effort to enactment connected taxable here.

While waiting connected Lamar’s effect to “Push Ups,” Drake besides enactment retired the since-deleted track, “Taylor Made Freestyle,” connected which helium utilized the A.I.-generated voices of Lamar’s idols Tupac and Snoop Dogg to spell aft him — earning a cease and desist from Shakur’s estate. After those A.I. verses, Drake came successful with his ain dependable to impeach the rapper of not responding to his archetypal diss due to the fact that helium didn’t privation to interfere with the merchandise of Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department. “Now we gotta hold a fucking week origin Taylor Swift is your caller top, and if you boutta drop, she gotta approve,” helium rapped. Swift has of people not responded — having famously ever wished to beryllium excluded from the communicative erstwhile it comes to being name-checked successful rap songs. While the opus has since been taken down, Snoop Dogg’s reaction is thankfully inactive up.

On “Euphoria,” which shares a rubric with the HBO bid that Drake produces, Lamar eviscerates his rival with axenic hatred, leaving nary chromatic near unturned. The verses onslaught Drake’s parenting (“I got a lad to raise, but I tin spot you cognize nothin’ ’bout that”), his rumored integrative country (“Didn’t archer ’em wherever you get your abs from”), and his rap abilities (“You not a rap artist, you a scam creator with the hopes of bеing accepted”). He besides called retired his usage of A.I., and seemingly confused histrion Haley Joel Osment and televangelist Joel Osteen successful the process: “Am I battlin’ shade oregon AI? N**** feelin’ similar Joel Osteen / Funny, helium was successful a movie called AI.”

Making amusive of Drake’s penchant for utilizing times and locations successful his opus titles, “6:16 successful LA” arrived conscionable days aft “Euphoria,” delivering connected that track’s committedness to spell “back-to-back.” It besides was notably produced by Jack Antonoff, which feels similar an acknowledgement of Drake’s repeated Taylor Swift references. In the song, helium claims to person operatives wrong Drake’s label, rapping, “Have you ever thought that OVO was moving for me? / Fake bully, I hatred bullies / You indispensable beryllium a unspeakable idiosyncratic / Everyone wrong your squad is whispering that you merit it.”

Drake responded with the astir 8 infinitesimal way “Family Matters,” which suggested that Lamar’s kid was really fathered by his manager Dave Free. He besides focused successful connected Lamar’s narration with his fiancée Whitney Alford, alleging infidelity and maltreatment with lyrics like, “You the Black messiah wifing up a mixed queen / And deed vanilla pick to assistance retired with your self-esteem / On immoderate Bobby sh*t, I wanna cognize what Whitney need” and “When you enactment your hands connected your girl, is it self-defense ’cause she’s bigger than you?”

Lamar didn’t springiness america overmuch clip to beryllium with Drake’s past diss, putting retired “Meet the Grahams” conscionable hours aboriginal — which continued the taxable of going aft each other’s families close from the top, by telling Drake’s lad Adonis he’s atrocious Drake is his father. Speaking of children, the way besides alleges that Drake has a concealed daughter, a assertion Drake responded to via Instagram story, writing, “Nahhhh clasp connected tin idiosyncratic find my hidden girl pls and nonstop her to me…these guys are successful shambles 🤣🤣🤣.” Lamar besides circled backmost to his cosmetic process digs, rapping, “Get immoderate discipline, don’t chopped them corners similar your daddy did / F*ck what Ozempic did / Don’t wage to play with them Brazilians, get a gym membership.”

Not adjacent 24 hours aft releasing “Meet the Grahams,” Lamar had much to accidental with the brutal “Not Like Us.” In it, helium makes explosive accusations against Drake, with lyrics like, “Certified Lover Boy, certified pedophiles,” “Say, Drake, I perceive you similar ‘em young / You amended not ever spell to compartment artifact one,” and “Tryna onslaught a chord and it’s astir apt A-minor.” He besides circles backmost to Drake’s usage of A.I. to recreate Tupac’s dependable connected “Taylor Made Freestyle,” rapping, “You deliberation the Bay gon’ fto you disrespect Pac, n****? I deliberation that Oakland amusement gon’ beryllium your past stop, n****.”