Kendrick Lamar shocked the rap world by hurling one other bomb in Drake’s course with “6:16 in LA” arriving on Friday (Might 3).
The Al Inexperienced-sampling Drake diss monitor has but to hit streaming companies and is presently solely accessible on Kendrick Lamar’s Instagram, however that didn’t cease followers from going ballistic Friday morning heading into the weekend.
Okay. Dot accuses Drake of getting traitors contained in the OVO camp leaking info to the opposition whereas name-dropping 6 God associates like Akademiks and Zack Bia.
“Have you ever ever thought that OVO was working for me?/ Faux bully, I hate bullies/ You should be a horrible individual/ Everybody inside your staff is whispering that you simply deserve it/ Can’t Toosie Slide up out of this one, it’s simply gon’ resurface,” Lamar raps.
Followers, critics and extra flooded social media with opinions of Kendrick’s shock assault, with “6:16” arriving simply three days after the scathing “Euphoria,” which served because the Compton legend’s response to Drake’s “Push Ups” diss.
“Kendrick don’t give two sh–s about you needing a membership banger… This rider music. Underground rap fan warmth,” Sizzling 97 host Ebro Darden wrote.
One other individual saluted Akademiks being name-dropped on tracks by each side within the conflict. “Akademiks being talked about by each Drake and Kendrick Lamar in diss data is famous. He’s aside of HipHop historical past, even in the event you love him or hate him, thats objectively a win for impartial media,” they wrote.
Whereas Spotify’s Carl Chery added: “From time to time I hear folks say Kendrick is simply too excessive forehead and his lyrics are too onerous to grasp. I heard it a number of instances within the context of this battle. That is rap. You guys simply have a low rap IQ.”
Some followers have been left with their jaws on the ground after discovering out that Taylor Swift’s frequent collaborator Jack Antonoff was a co-producer on “6:16 in LA.” (Drake poked at Lamar for working with Swift on “Push Ups.”) “So this monitor actually is Taylor Made Okay Kendrick I see you,” one Drake fan said on X.
The talk about who’s successful the Drake-Kendrick conflict is bound to rage on properly into the weekend as followers await the 6 God’s subsequent transfer — which higher be his greatest transfer — within the battle.
Discover extra of the reactions to “6:16 in LA” beneath.