Dua Lipa Explains the Drake and Kendrick Lamar Feud on ‘SNL’

If you happen to’re confused by Drake and Kendrick Lamar’s feud, look no additional than Dua Lipa for all of the intel.

The pop star, 28, tried to elucidate the rappers’ unhealthy blood whereas internet hosting Saturday Night time Dwell on Saturday, Might 4, in a skit titled “Good Morning Greenville.” (Dua was additionally the episode’s musical visitor.)

Within the sketch, Dua appeared as tradition critic Wanda Weems on the morning present — hosted by Heidi Gardner and Mikey Day — and pieced collectively Drake, 37, and Lamar’s current diss tracks about each other. She stood in entrance of a detective-like pinboard that related all of the mysteries surrounding the artists’ newest quarrel.

Lamar, 36, shocked followers on Friday, Might 3, by releasing a second Drake diss monitor, “6:16 in LA,” which he shared mere days after his first, “Euphoria.” The songs have been Lamar’s long-awaited response to Drake’s “Push Ups” and “Taylor Made Freestyle,” which he launched final month.

“Nicely, right here’s one clue: on the tune ‘Euphoria’ when Kendrick describes Drake as Canadian, that’s as a result of Drake is from Toronto,” Dua stated within the skit as Gardner, 40, and Day, 44, reacted with shock. “And he calls Drake ‘crodie,’ which is a time period utilized by the Crips, which in accordance with Wikipedia is an alliance of avenue gangs primarily based in southern California.”

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There really are cutthroat lyrics in Lamar’s six-minute takedown “Euphoria,” together with: “It’s at all times been about love and hate, now let me say I’m the most important hater / I hate the best way that you simply stroll, the best way that you simply discuss / I hate the best way that you simply costume / I hate the best way that you simply sneak diss, if I catch flight, it’s gon’ be direct.”

Apparently sufficient, Lamar labored with producers and co-writers Jack Antonoff and Sounwave on “6:16 in LA,” an obvious dig at Drake’s point out of their longtime collaborator and good friend Taylor Swift in his first two diss tracks.

In “Push Ups,” Drake mocked Lamar’s hip-hop authenticity by mentioning how he appeared on Maroon 5’s “Don’t Wanna Know” and on Swift’s “Unhealthy Blood,” a tune from her 2014 album, 1989. Then, Drake referenced the upcoming success of Swift’s new album, The Tortured Poets Division, in “Taylor Made Freestyle,” a tune he additionally launched on April 19 after Lamar’s perceived lack of response.

“Now in Drake’s diss monitor, he questioned Kendrick’s manhood saying he wears a measurement 7 shoe,” Dua added in her SNL bit. “However now Drake is being sued by 2Pac’s property for utilizing an AI model of his voice.”

Drake may, actually, face authorized motion from Tupac Shakur’s property. In response to Billboard, the property threatened to sue Drake over his use of the late rapper’s voice in “Taylor Made Freestyle,” ensuing within the tune being pulled from streaming companies.

Though Gardner and Day tried to quell the feud on SNL utilizing face masks paddles of Drake and Lamar, it seems their battle isn’t waning. Their pleasant profession beginnings first turned bitter when Lamar took intention at Drake and others on Huge Sean’s 2013 monitor “Management.” From there it slowly escalated till Drake lastly answered with the J.Cole diss monitor “First Particular person Shooter” in October 2023. Lamar responded on Future & Metro Boomin’s “Like That” earlier than Drake, after all, launched “Push Ups” and “Taylor Made Freestyle.”

The diss tracks have been dropping extra incessantly. Drake referred to as Lamar “pipsqueak” on “Push Ups,” which he launched on April 19, and Lamar responded with “Euphoria” 11 days later. He didn’t anticipate Drake’s response earlier than he adopted up with “6:16 in LA” on Friday, Might 3.

The meat solely acquired extra private on Saturday, Might 4, when Drake launched “Household Issues” — during which he accuses Lamar of dishonest on fiancée Whitney Alford — and Lamar dropped “Meet the Grahams” simply hours later, during which he claimed Drake is a deadbeat dad and has a secret daughter. Later that day, Lamar adopted up with “Not Like Us.”