Kendrick Lamar and Drake. Kenny Sun from Boston, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons and musicisentropy, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

In October 2023, Drake dropped an album called “For All The Dogs,” which had a song called “First Person Shooter.” On that song, J.Cole says, “Love when they argue the hardest MC is K-Dot? Aubrey? or me? We the big three like we started a league.” What Cole is saying is that Drake, Kendrick and he run the rap and no one else is on their level.

Then Metro and Future dropped a highly-anticipated collaboration album in March called “We Still Don’t Trust You.” On that album there is a song called “Like That,” and halfway through the song – a surprise artist who had been out of the rap game for two years comes on. It was Kendrick Lamar, and he mentions how he hates how Drake and J. Cole sneak dissed him on “First Person Shooter” and that “there is no big three, it’s just big me.” So Kendrick just let everyone know he is back and he is not playing around. Everyone was shocked when the album was released. For one, Kendrick is known as Mr. Morale since his last album drop. And the fact that Kendrick wasn’t listed on the song added a lot of shock value. Not to mention, he just attacked two of the biggest names in the rap industry right now.  

On April 5, J. Cole dropped a mixtape called “Might Delete Later.” On that mixtape for the closing number, there was a song called “7 Minute Drill,” where Cole dissed Lamar and told him how he fell off. He also said that “he only has a hard verse every 30 months or something” and he also said, “Lord, don’t make me have to smoke him because I mess with him.” He went on to say how, “Your first album was a classic and his last album was tragic, his second album could put people to sleep but they gassed it but then your third album was massive that was your prime.” Just a week later J. Cole did just what the title of the mixtape was and he deleted “Might Delete Later.” That same night he apologized to Kendrick about dissing him and that he shouldn’t have. 

A week after J.Cole was seen apologizing on stage to Kendrick the world finally got to hear from Drake when he dropped “Push ups,” where immediately he dissed Future, who had dissed Drake on “Like That.” In the song he said, “I could never be nobody’s number one fan, your first number one I had to put it in your hand.” He said that because Future’s first number one was a song he did with Drake called “Way 2 Sexy.” Then he dissed Kendrick by saying, “How you big stepping with a size seven men’s on?” which we all know is him calling Kendrick short. He follows up by saying “Drop and give me 50,” which he is referring to the label deal Kendrick has with TDE, who gets 50% of his earnings.

His diss to Metro was simple: He said “Metro, shut up and make some drums.” He also told Lamar that he isn’t in the big three – “SZA got you wiped down, Travis got you wiped down, Savage got you wiped down,” which he is essentially calling Kendrick washed. 

After 10 long days of silence from Kendrick he dropped “Euphoria.” It’s titled that because Drake is a producer for the TV show “Euphoria.” Kendrick starts the diss out by saying that he can see Drake spiraling from a once good superhero to a nobody. He told him he is not a rap artist, he is a scam artist with hopes of being accepted. He then goes on at the end to say that all this was just a warning shot and Drake can end it here.

But after Euphoria three days later Kendrick dropped “6:16 in LA”. Where Kendrick basically let Drake know that he had no other choice but to respond to the diss. And that this isn’t even the beginning and that once again this is only a warning shot. 

On the same day Drake finally responded with “Family Matters” now this is where the beef starts to escalate. Not only did Drake bring Kendrick’s wife into it he also accuses Kendrick of beating his wife. Now up to this point, no one had brought family into the equation. This is an unwritten rule in diss tracks that there should be no family involved because it gets messy. 

Not even an hour later, Kendrick dropped “Meet the Grahams” and you better buckle up because this is about to get wild. In this diss track, Kendrick exposed Drake for having a secret daughter in hiding and tells Adonis Drake’s son that he will be his mentor since his dad isn’t a dad. He goes on to say that Drake has a pill addiction, drinking addiction, and has had a BBL surgery that he lied about. Next he talked to Drake’s mom saying she raised a horrible human being and that he is a womanizer and that he keeps pedophiles on his payroll and that Drake is a pedophile himself. He adds that Drake leaked his own nudes because he wanted to get in touch with the younger girl audience. Then he moves on and addresses Drake himself telling him that he has an ego that is too big  “You lied about your son, you lied about your daughter” and he ends the song with “Meet the Grahams.” So everyone was in shock. I mean these are some heavy accusations being thrown that could potentially end Drake’s career. 

That same night Kendrick didn’t let up and dropped “Not like us” where he went further on about Drake being a pedophile and keeping pedophiles on his payroll. This one had more of a dance beat compared to “Meet the Grahams,” that had a “Dance with the Devil” type vibe. 

All of a sudden, Metro dropped  what the people are calling a “disstrumental” called “BBL Drizzy BPM 150.” He said whoever has the best song using the beat gets a free beat from him. A Metro beat goes anywhere from $75,000 to $150,000 and could make someone’s career, so every aspiring rapper is hopping on the beat and everyone’s decided that if you rap on the beat it has to be a diss. 

Then all this takes us to Drake, who had been silent, dropping “The Heart pt. 6,” where he name dropped Millie Bobby Brown. He said he didn’t groom her, even though Kendrick didn’t drop any name on his diss. He also said if he was a pedophile that he would be caught by now, as if Hollywood isn’t one big pedophile ring. And on top of that lame excuse, he made fun of Kendrick for being sexually assaulted. However, if he listened more on “Mother I Sober,” a song from Kendrick’s last album “Mr. Morale and the big steppers,” he would know Kendrick’s mom was the one who was sexually assaulted. So that whole diss was Drake basically saying nuh-uh and making fun of sexual assault so the public really isn’t on his side right now. 

So as of this point it is painstakingly clear that Kendrick murdered Drake. If I was Drake, I would just retire while I still had a lot of money and disappear from the public for a hot minute.