The Drake–Kendrick Lamar feud continues to escalate after the Canadian rapper launched “The Coronary heart Half 6,” a brand new diss observe on Sunday night time that pushed again towards among the sexual predator allegations made by Lamar in a sequence of songs launched over the past week.
The largest rap feud in years has more and more change into vitriolic and private, and has seen each Drake and Lamar throw unsubstantiated allegations at one another. Amongst them, Drake has accused Lamar of bodily abusing his associate, and Lamar prompt Drake has a hidden love youngster. In his previous couple of tracks, Lamar has targeted on allegations that Drake is a sexual predator, and within the music “Meet the Grahams,” which was launched Might 3, he immediately accuses Drake of harboring “intercourse offenders” at his label OVO and even calls his rival a “pervert” for his alleged curiosity in youthful girls. He additionally raps that “we gotta elevate our daughters knowin’ there’s predators like him lurkin’.”
In “Meet the Grahams,” Lamar additionally raps that “The Embassy ’bout to get raided too, it’s solely a matter of time,” a direct reference to Drake’s home, which he has dubbed “The Embassy,” and hyperlinks it to current federal raids of Sean “Diddy” Combs’ properties associated to an unspecified ongoing investigation.
Lamar doubled down on the predator accusations towards Drake in a follow-up diss observe, “Not Like Us,” launched Might 4. In that observe, Lamar extra explicitly calls Drake a predator, rapping the road, “Say, Drake, I hear you want ’em younger.” Elsewhere within the music, Lamar calls Drake and his crew pedophiles, rapping, “Licensed Lover Boy? Licensed pedophiles,” in a reference to Drake’s 2021 album, which is then adopted by the road, “making an attempt to ring a bell, and it’s most likely A-minor.”
Lamar additional makes allegations by making the duvet image of “Not Like Us” observe a Google maps picture of Drake’s home coated in predator map pins.
In a music that was posted to YouTube on Sunday, Drake addresses the myriad accusations made by Lamar within the music “The Coronary heart Half 6,” a title that performs on Lamar’s critically acclaimed 2022 music “The Coronary heart Half 5.” The music includes a pattern from the Aretha Franklin music “Show It” and begins with Franklin singing the traces, “Now let me see you show it / Simply let me see you show it.”
Addressing the predator allegations head on in “The Coronary heart Half 6,” Drake raps, “Speakin’ of something with a toddler, let’s get to that now / This Epstein angle was the shit I anticipated / TikTok movies you collected and dissected / As an alternative of being on some dis-direct shit / You quite fucking seize your pen and misdirect shit,” accusing Lamar of spreading lies.
Later within the music, Drake returns to denying the predator allegations. “I by no means been with nobody underage however now I perceive why this the angle that you simply actually mess with / Only for readability, I really feel disgusted, I’m too revered,” he raps, earlier than including, “If I used to be fucking younger women, I promise I’d a been arrested / I’m means too well-known for this shit you simply prompt.”
Within the music, Drake suggests Lamar is throwing predator allegations at him as a means for the Compton rapper to course of and challenge his personal trauma of allegedly being abused as a toddler. Drake raps, “Wait a second, that’s that one report the place you say you bought molested / Aw, fuck me, I simply made the entire connection / This about to get so miserable / That is trauma from your individual confessions / This when your father depart you house alone with no safety, so uncared for / That’s why these pedophile raps and shit you so obsessive about, it’s so extreme.”
Within the outro to “The Coronary heart Half 6,” Drake raps, “You’ll be a worthy competitor if I used to be actually a predator and also you weren’t fuckin’ mendacity to each blogger and editor, however / It’s what it’s.”