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Kendrick Lamar and Drake’s feud has become one of the most storied rap beefs in history, but their relationship wasn’t always so fraught with tension.
Before Lamar made his major label debut with 2012’s Good Kid, M.A.A.D City, the Compton native and Drake were on good terms. Lamar made a guest appearance on Drake’s 2011 album, Take Care, and later opened for the Canadian rapper on his 2012 Club Paradise tour. That same year, the duo contributed guest verses to ASAP Rocky’s “F—in’ Problems,” and Drake appeared on Lamar’s track “Poetic Justice.”
Just one year later, however, cracks in their professional relationship started to show as the pair began taking shots at each other in their music, starting with Lamar’s verse on Big Sean’s “Control.” In the decade-plus since, the drama has only escalated — and there’s no sign that these two ever plan on burying the hatchet.
Keep scrolling for a complete timeline of Drake and Lamar’s feud:
August 14, 2013
The drama kicked off when Lamar took aim at Drake — and every other popular rapper of the era — in his verse on Big Sean’s “Control” with Jay Electronica. “I’m usually homeboys with the same n—-s I’m rhymin’ with / But this is hip-hop, and them n—-s should know what time it is / And that goes for Jermaine Cole, Big K.R.I.T., Wale / Pusha T, Meek Millz, ASAP Rocky, Drake / Big Sean, Jay Electron’, Tyler, Mac Miller / I got love for you all, but I’m tryna murder you n—-s / Tryna make sure your core fans never heard of you n—-s / They don’t wanna hear not one more noun or verb from you n—-s.”
Kendrick Lamar and Drake’s rap feud is so heated that it may burn the hip-hop world to the ground. Lamar, 36, and Drake, 37, have been waging lyrical war with increasingly personal diss tracks released over the last several days. Drake’s “Family Matters” song accused Lamar of being a “make-believe” activist, claimed Lamar got physically […] At the time, Drake said he was unbothered by the song, telling Billboard he “got dinner and kept it moving” after hearing the track. “I didn’t really have anything to say about it,” he added. “It just sounded like an ambitious thought to me. That’s all it was. I know good and well that Kendrick’s not murdering me, at all, in any platform. So when that day presents itself, I guess we can revisit the topic.” September 24, 2013 After weeks of speculation about whether Lamar would actually perform “Not Like Us” at the Super Bowl, he did — and brought out Drake’s rumored ex Serena Williams during the song. As Lamar finished his halftime show set, the tennis icon danced on stage in a blue and white outfit. (Lamar and Williams are both natives of Compton, California.) Source link
