The confrontation wages on between Drake and Kendrick Lamar, and this time it’s private. After the latter launched his new diss monitor entitled “6:16 in LA” earlier this morning, each rappers dropped response tracks, one after the opposite, on Friday night time (Could 3), with Drake placing out “Household Issues” and Lamar releasing “Meet the Grahams.”
Drake was first up with “Household Issues,” the place issues take a really private flip. “You talked about my seed now cope with his dad,” begins the Toronto native on his seven-minute monitor. “I gotta go dangerous, I gotta go dangerous.”
Among the many sprawling photographs he takes at Lamar on the monitor, he weapons for his foe and his relationship along with his fiancee Whitney Alford. “Don’t even return to your hood and plant no cash bushes,” he states, referring to Lamar’s “Cash Timber” that got here out in 2012. “Say you hate the ladies I fuck however what you actually imply / I been with Black and white and every thing in between / You the Black messiah wifing up a combined queen / And hit vanilla cream to assist out together with your shallowness.”
Issues get much more off-limits with the point out of their kids, which Lamar beforehand introduced up on final week’s diss monitor “Euphoria.” “Why you by no means maintain your son and inform him say cheese / We might have left the children out of this don’t blame me,” he states. He means that one in every of Lamar’s two kids, a son and a daughter, was truly fathered by Dave Free, who has been a artistic companion to Lamar for years.
On Lamar’s “Euphoria,” he name-checks a Toronto Chinese language meals restaurant known as New Ho King, and within the video for “Household Issues,” Drake seems on the restaurant itself. “Kendrick simply opened his mouth / Somebody go hand him a Grammy proper now / The place is your Uncle at / Trigger I wanna discuss to the person of the home,” he sneers.
He then references the stop and desist that Tupac Shakur’s property despatched to him over “Taylor Made Freestyle,” on which Drake used AI to create new vocals from the late rapper. On “Household Issues,” Drake states that Lamar was the one who inspired the property to fireplace again at Drake, who eliminated the tune from social media shortly after they threatened to sue him.
“A stop and desist is for hoes / Can’t hearken to lies that come out of your mouth / You known as the Tupac property and begged them to sue me and take that shit down,” he says. He finishes on a darkish observe referring to their kids: “Our sons ought to go play on the park / Two light-skinned children, that shit could be cute / Except you don’t wish to be seen with anybody that’s Blacker than you”
Lamar acquired simply as private on “Meet the Grahams,” on which every verse is addressed immediately at Drake’s members of the family together with his son Adonis, mom Sandra, father Dennis and apparently a daughter that Drake has by no means addressed. “Pricey Adonis, I’m sorry that that man is your father, let me be sincere It takes a person to be a person, your dad is just not responsive,” he begins. “I take a look at him and want your grandpa woulda wore a condom / I’m sorry that you simply gotta develop up after which stand behind him.”
His second verse talks to his mom and father. “Pricey Sandra, your son acquired some habits, I hope you don’t undermine them / Particularly with all the ladies that’s harm inside this local weather.” He strikes on to his father, who he states “gave beginning to a grasp manipulator” and claims that he “raised a horrible fuckin’ individual.”
After which, he addresses a “child woman” that he implies Drake had and has stored secret. “Must be teachin’ you timetables or watchin’ ‘Frozen’ with you / Or at your eleventh birthday, singin’ poems with you / As a substitute, he be in Turks, payin’ for intercourse and poppin’ Percs.”
This has been a whirlwind for anybody who’s been conserving tabs on the meat. It began when Lamar fired at Drake and J. Cole on “Like That” for phrases on their “First Particular person Shooter.” The meat has since progressed at a fast tempo, involving everybody from Rick Ross and Metro Boomin to the Weeknd and Future.