The ball is back in Drake's court. After Kendrick Lamar's back-to-back diss tracks, “Euphoria” and “6:16 in LA,” the For all dogs The rapper has taken verbal shots at his nemesis with new song “Family Matters.” Listen to it below.
On “Family Matters,” Drake responds to some of Lamar's “Euphoria” lyrics. For example, Lamar questioned Drake's quality as a father, and Drake responds, “You mentioned my seed, now deal with his daddy / Gotta go bad, gotta go bad.” He also mocks Lamar by the names of some of his closest collaborators, Dave Free, Anthony “Top Dawg” Tiffith, and Baby Keem (“K.Dot shit only hits when Baby Keem put his pen down”).
Aside from Lamar, Drake calls out some of the other hip-hop figures who have taken him to task in recent weeks. He has bars for Metro Boomin (“Leland Wayne, he a fuckin' lame, so I know he had to be an influence”), Future (“Pluto shit make me sick to my stomach/We ain't never been really through it “), and Rick Ross (“Ross call me the white boy, and shit kinda got a ring to it / 'Cause all these rappers waving white flags while the whole fucking club sings to him”).
Drake also addresses the legal ramifications of “Taylor Made Freestyle.” The track, which has been removed from the Canadian musician's social media pages, was the subject of a cease-and-desist letter from 2Pac's estate over the song's use of artificial intelligence to mimic the late California rapper's vocals. In his new track, Drake raps, “A cease-and-sist is for hoes/Can't listen to lies that out of your mouth/You called the 2Pac Estate/And begged them to sue me and drop this shit .”
One of Drake's more personal attacks on Lamar comes towards the end of the song when he appears to claim that the Compton artist abused a partner. “He hired a crisis management team/To clear up the fact that you hit your queen,” he raps, “The picture you painted ain't what it seems.” (Aside from Drake's lines, Kendrick Lamar has not faced public accusations of domestic violence.)
“Family Matters” is Drake's third anti-Lamar song, following “Push Ups” and “Taylor Made Freestyle.” He's recently been upset with Lamar (and Future and Metro Boomin) ever since We Don't Trust You song “Like That.”
Read reviews of “Euphoria” and “6:16 in LA,” as well as Alphonse Pierre's analysis of “A Power Ranking of Everyone in the Drake–Kendrick Lamar–Every Rapper Ever Battle Royale.”
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