Drake has denied allegations of kid intercourse offences and of him harbouring a secret little one, each levelled at him by Kendrick Lamar in latest days.
The enmity between the rap superstars has escalated over a collection of diss tracks prior to now few weeks, culminating in a flurry of exercise throughout the weekend with three tracks by Lamar and two by Drake.
Lamar’s most severe allegations come on Not Like Us, with the road: “Say, Drake, I hear you want ’em younger … Licensed Lover Boy? Licensed paedophiles … Tryna ring a bell and it’s in all probability A minor.”
On Meet the Grahams, addressed to a collection of Drake’s members of the family, he raps: “A toddler ought to by no means be compromised and he protecting his little one round them / And we gotta increase our daughters realizing there’s predators like him lurking … I’m seeking to shoot by means of any pervert that lives, preserve the household secure.”
Later in that monitor, Lamar addresses a whole verse to an unnamed lady, saying of Drake: “He a narcissist, misogynist, dwelling inside his songs / Attempt destroy households slightly than takin’ care of his personal / Needs to be instructing you time tables or watching Frozen with you / Or at your eleventh birthday singing poems with you … it’s not your fault that he’s hiding one other little one.”
Drake has responded on to the allegations on a brand new monitor, The Coronary heart Half 6, the title a reference to Lamar’s collection of singles of the identical title. “Drake shouldn’t be a reputation that you just gon’ see on no intercourse offender listing, straightforward does it / You mentioning A minor … B sharp and inform the followers: who was it? … I by no means been with nobody underage however now I perceive why this the angle that you just actually mess with / Only for readability, I really feel disgusted, I’m too revered / If I used to be fucking younger ladies, I promise I’d have been arrested / I’m approach too well-known for this shit you simply advised”.
He provides: “Solely fuckin’ with Whitneys, not Millie Bobby Browns, I’d by no means look twice at no teenager” – a reference to a friendship with Stranger Issues actor Millie Bobby Brown. Brown spoke of their friendship in 2018 when she was in her mid-teens, saying Drake was “a fantastic pal and a fantastic position mannequin” who gave her courting recommendation.
In addition to a play on Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown’s relationship, the road refers to Kendrick Lamar’s long-term companion Whitney Alford, about whom Drake makes a collection of his personal allegations within the diss tracks.
Drake additionally claimed that he and his staff fed Lamar false info relating to the supposed secret daughter. “We plotted for per week after which we fed you the knowledge / A daughter that’s 11 years previous, I guess he takes it / We considered giving a pretend title or a vacation spot / However you so thirsty, you not involved with investigation.”
Drake had beforehand denied the allegation, saying: “For those who or anyone can discover proof that I’ve an 11-year-old daughter, I’ll give up rapping and are available be just right for you.”
Elsewhere among the many many insults and allegations shared on the diss tracks, every rapper attacked the opposite’s artistry and authenticity. Drake mentioned Lamar was “all the time rapping such as you ’bout to get the slaves freed / You simply performing like an activist, it’s make-believe,” whereas Lamar described Drake as “not a colleague, you a fucking coloniser”.
The feud dates again to the 22 March launch of the Future and Metro Boomin monitor Like That, on which visitor rapper Lamar boasted of his superiority to Drake – the monitor reached No 1 within the US. Drake responded with two tracks, Push Ups and Taylor Made Freestyle, the latter that includes AI variations of 2Pac and Snoop Dogg, leading to a warning of authorized motion from the 2Pac property – Drake subsequently eliminated the monitor from social media. After a quick pause, Lamar returned with Euphoria, which attacked Drake’s artistry and known as into query his skills as a father or mother. It’s at the moment the third-most streamed monitor globally on Spotify.
