has taken a page from ‘s playbook and released back-to-back diss tracks against the Canadian rapper.
Following a surprise drop of his brutal “” track on Tuesday, the Compton, California, native released “” on his Friday morning. The song title is a reference to a song format Drake is known for popularizing, including “6PM in New York” from “If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late” to “8am in Charlotte” from his recent album, “For All the Dogs.”
“It’s survival,” Lamar opens the track. “I think somebody lying. Smell somebody lying.”
Art for the 3-minute and 44-second track includes a photo of a black Maybach glove. , who entered the convoluted rap beef last week with “Champagne Moments,” is a founder of the rap label Maybach Music Group.
‘6:16 in LA’ lyrics: Kendrick Lamar says Drake’s label OVO is ‘working for me’
Lamar begins the track discussing buying yachts and taking trips to Ibiza, in what may be a nod to Ross’ “luxury rap” style of music.
“Who am I if I don’t go to war?” he raps, later adding that messing “with good people make good people go to bat.”
Lamar takes a shot at Drake’s label and team, rapping, “Have you ever thought OVO is working for me?” before calling Drake a “fake bully.”
He continues: “I hate bullies / You must be a terrible person / Everyone inside your team whispering that you deserve it.”
Lamar then says he was having “fun” with the tit-for-tat until Drake put “money in the streets” for dirt against the . But Lamar claims Drake “lost money ’cause they came back with no receipts.”
“I’m sorry that I live a boring life / I love peace / But war ready if the world is ready to see you bleed,” he says.
Lamar continues the offensive on OVO. “If you were street smart you would’ve caught that your entourage is only to hustle you,” he raps, claiming Drake has 100 people on salary, and “20 of them want you as a casualty.”
The then ends the track with reference to ‘s hit “You Are Not Alone”: “It’s time that you look around on who’s around you / Before you figure that you’re not alone, ask what Mike would do.”
Both Drake and Lamar have referenced Jackson in their music, with Drake saying he’s “one hit” away from Jackson’s record of 13 hits on on his October track “First Person Shooter.” Drake has since tied with Jackson with that very song. Drake has also sampled the late singer’s vocals for the 2018 track “Don’t Matter to Me” from an unreleased 1980 studio session.
Lamar followed up on ‘s “Like That,” rapping: “Prince outlived Mike Jack.'”
Kendrick Lamar’s back-to-back disses ‘6:16 in LA,’ ‘Euphoria’ follow Drake disses
In “Euphoria,” Lamar complimented Drake’s track “” saying he “liked that record.” The 2015 single was a diss track aimed at rapper , and was Drake’s follow-up to his first diss, “Charged Up.”
Now, Lamar has released a back-to-back of his own. On “Euphoria,” Lamar called Drake a “scam artist,” took shots at his relationship with his son and invoked the Toronto-born rapper’s .
He continued: “How many more fairytale stories about your life ’til we’ve had enough? How many more Black features ’til you finally feel that you’re Black enough?”
Drake, who is biracial, was previously called out by in a similarly vicious feud for a photo featuring him in blackface. After Pusha T used the picture as the cover for his diss track “The Story of Adidon,” Drake said the blackface photo was from 2007 when he was working on a “project that was about young black actors struggling to get roles, being stereotyped and type cast.” Pusha T also revealed Drake had a child, unbeknownst to the public at the time.
“Euphoria” and “6:16 in LA” follow Drake’s diss tracks “Push Ups” and “Taylor Made Freestyle.” “Taylor Made Freestyle” pulled from streaming services after Tupac Shakur’s estate threatened to sue over the use of a AI voice imitation. “The unauthorized, equally dismaying use of Tupac’s voice against Kendrick Lamar, a good friend to the Estate who has given nothing but respect to Tupac and his legacy publicly and privately, compounds the insult,” a cease-and-desist from the estate said.
Listen to Kendrick Lamar’s ‘6:16 in LA’
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Contributing: Brendan Morrow
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