Whereas Kendrick Lamar and Drake’s heavyweight battle has been a spectacle sweeping popular culture for the previous couple of weeks, Questlove isn’t thrilled with the messy feud and its “mudslinging” antics.
The Roots drummer scoffed at Drake and Ok. Dot’s warfare in a fiery Instagram put up on Tuesday evening (Might 8) the place Quest put followers on blast for his or her visceral reactions to the haymakers exchanged on the scathing diss tracks.
“No one received the warfare. This wasn’t about talent. This was a wrestling match stage mudslinging and takedown by any means obligatory — ladies & kids (& precise details) be damned,” he wrote earlier than declaring hip-hop to be useless. “Identical viewers wanting blood will quickly put up ‘rip’ posts like they weren’t a part of the issue. Hip Hop really is useless.”
Questlove’s put up made references to each Drake and Kendrick bringing household and youngsters into the meat in a really private technique to assault each other. Ok. Dot accused Drizzy of hiding an 11-year-old daughter on “Meet the Grahams,” whereas the 6 God alleged that Lamar’s supervisor Dave Free was the daddy of one of many Compton rapper’s kids on “Household Issues.”
“Right here We Are Now…Entertain us,” Questlove captioned the put up, quoting Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit.”
Quest turned off his Instagram feedback, however that didn’t cease his sizzling take from sparking reactions on X as one consumer reminded Quest that he performed the drums for Jay-Z’s Unplugged stay album in 2001 that included “Takeover,” Hov’s diss monitor towards Nas. “Wasn’t Questlove the drummer on ‘Unplugged’ stay the place Hov carried out ‘Takeover?’” the consumer wrote. “A battle the place ladies and youngsters have been additionally talked about? Shut up, man.”
Together with Kendrick’s explosive help on Future and Metro Boomin’s “Like That” in March, Lamar and Drake exchanged 10 diss tracks in complete with the newest installment approaching Sunday (Might 5) with the defensive “The Coronary heart Half 6,” the place Drake shut down pedophilia allegations repeatedly made by Ok. Dot.
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