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Drake and Kendrick Lamar's Ongoing Feud: A Deeper Dive into the Latest Developments
So much has happened with Drake and Kendrick Lamar lately, so let’s dive right in, listeners! Over the past few days, Drake’s been all over the news – not just for the feud with Lamar, but for everything from new music to viral mishaps and even a little drama with some of his former inner circle. Let’s unpack the latest tea and give you that full obsessive Patrick-level breakdown.
Drake just dropped a new album with PARTYNEXTDOOR, and in one of the standout tracks, “Gimme a Hug,” he takes some not-so-subtle jabs that most folks are reading as direct shots at Kendrick. He starts off calling out “Drake elimination, fake intimidation,” which is partly throwing shade at Kanye West for past comments, but soon he’s in full defense mode, likening himself to Neo dodging bullets and calling out folks who, as he claims, use his name for promotion. The real kicker is when he raps about people preying on his downfall, and he takes one final swipe at Lamar’s style by alluding to women twerking with dictionaries if Lamar took his spot. That’s that intellectual “Not Like Us” energy he’s mocking, for sure. But, despite all the back and forth, Drake ends the track pretty much saying he’s over the beef and just wants to party. Of course, we know Drake says he’s “moving on,” but the saga is clearly alive and well online.
If you're all about the Kendrick side, the buzz is that Drake’s trying to shift the narrative, especially since Kendrick’s “Not Like Us” was such a massive cultural moment, reaching a fever pitch during the Super Bowl halftime show. The internet is still dissecting every lyric, with fan debates raging on Instagram comments and Twitter threads. Plus, while Drake has initiated some legal action involving Universal Music Group over the supposed defamation from the “Not Like Us” lyrics, he notably hasn’t sued Kendrick directly. That legal drama adds fuel to fan theories that the beef is “a business move” or “deeper than rap.” During the Super Bowl, Kendrick even mocked the whole lawsuit idea on stage, which had Twitter in stitches.
But it’s not only industry diss tracks. Over the weekend, social media exploded with a viral “thirst trap” mirror selfie that people genuinely believed was Drake. Cue the chaos. Twitter and Reddit ate it up – tons of thirsty comments, people joking about his selfie game, and even a Reddit thread dragging him for “cultural touring” after some Oktoberfest snaps surfaced. Turns out, oops, it wasn’t Drake in the mirror pic at all, but a Brazilian guy named Arthur Neves who had a good laugh at the internet’s confusion. Still, that moment basically became another meme attached to Drake’s name, and the conversation about his online presence – his look, his tats, his hair, the legend of his selfies – just keeps going strong.
Let’s not forget Drake and LeBron James. LeBron addressed the rumors about their so-called falling out, which absolutely does tie back to the Drake-Kendrick feud. Ever since LeBron showed love at Kendrick’s Pop Out show in LA, Drake has apparently not been thrilled, dropping a few sly disses including a switch-up of his classic “6 to 23 like I’m LeBron” lyric during a tour stop. LeBron, for his part, is publicly saying it’s all love, and that they're just at different places in life, but everyone can tell – fans are picking sides and the whole vibe of their decade-long friendship has changed.
Drake, meanwhile, made headlines at his Australian tour stop when he took the stage wearing a hoodie riddled with fake bullet holes and smoke trailing behind, playing into the whole “people want to see me gone, but I’m still here” persona. His dad, Dennis Graham, was filmed shrugging off Kendrick’s Grammy wins for “Not Like Us,” basically saying, “I don’t care about that stuff,” adding another comedic layer for fans dissecting family reactions.
Throughout all of this, Kendrick is still basking in the huge success of “Not Like Us,” winning
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