Last week, Drake released “Taylor Made Freestyle” asking why Kendrick hadn’t gotten in the booth to respond to him yet — this diss might make him wish he never did
HEY HATERS, EVEN YOU! (OR REALLY, HELLO WORLD, THE NICE PEOPLE INCLUDED). Kendrick Lamar asked for a verbal, urgent meeting of the anti-Drake group on Tuesday after dropping “Euphoria”, an impromptu 6-minute freestyle of his, in reaction to Drake’s bullying for the past week.
Last week, Drake released “Taylor Made Freestyle,” his second response to a couple of shots that Kendrick took at him on the Metro Boomin and Future track “Like That.” The song has since been removed due to legal threats from the Tupac estate, but it did feature the line: Since “Like That” your vibe was a little different you weren’t as in for it / How the fuck aren’t you in the booth recording this?! He feel like someone kind of unplug all the connections of his microphone. Of course, Kendrick put his mouth in the mic booth.
“Them super powers gettin’ neutralized, I can only watch in silence/The famous actor we once knew is lookin’ paranoid and now is spiralling/You movin’ just like a degenerate, heavy antic, it’s feelin’ distasteful/Why calculate you, not as calculated, I can even predict your angles,” Kendrick starts, adding: “Know you a master manipulator, and a bitch, you a liar too/But don’t tell no lie ’bout me, and I won’t tell truths ’bout you.”
When the beat switches up, the rapper fully unloads all of his grievances. “Somebody had told that me you got a ring, on God, I’m ready to double the wage/I rather do that, than let a Canadian nigga make Pac turn in his grave,” Kendrick spits, referencing Drake’s use of AI to replicate the late rapper’s voice on “Taylor Made Freestyle.” He also references J. Cole’s brief involvement (and inevitable withdrawal) from the beef: “There’s no accent you can sell me/Yeah, Cole and Aubrey know I’m a selfish nigga/The crown is heavy.”
But mostly, Kendrick makes a case for his standing as a gold medalist in the hating olympics. “This ain’t been ’bout critics, not about gimmicks, not about who the greatest/It’s always been about love and hate, now let me say I’m the biggest hater,” he raps. “I hate the way that you walk, the way that you talk, I hate the way that you dress.”
Elsewhere, he adds: “How many more black features ’til you finally feel that you black enough? I like Drake with the melodies, I don’t like Drake when he act tough.” Kendrick pops into the classic albums convo too, claiming that Drake doesn’t have any: “Let your core audience stomach that/Then tell ’em where you get your abs from.” Another one-liner comes soon after: “When I see you stand by Sexyy Red, I believe you see two bad bitches.”
Kendrick also blasts Drake, in which case he emphasized that the reason he respond so late was because he wanted to unearth more ammo and accusations. “Why would I get in touch with the people I’m trying to catch dirt in, is even more senseless than getting blood in my eyes.” “You[s] all think all my life is just rhymin!” is the way he says it. She says dis to her, “Bout hoe shit you got a son to raise and you knowledgeable about kid raising but you can see you known of it.”
Drake asked for this and now the ball is back in his court.
