The track titled Euphoria is the latest in a long-running feud between the two hip-hop heavyweights which has been going on since the beginning of this year.
There has been a ‘civil war’ going on in the world of rap for the last few months. Kendrick Lamar has released a diss track against rapper Drake. The track titled Euphoria is the latest in a long-running feud between the two hip-hop heavyweights which has been going on since the beginning of this year.
The song, which shares a name with the HBO series on which Drake serves as executive producer, was released on Lamar’s YouTube channel on Tuesday. The six-minute track disses Drake’s parenting skills, his biracial identity and his Canadian background. Lamar also calls Drake a “master manipulator and habitual liar.”
Elsewhere, he raps “How many more Black features ‘til you finally feel that you’re Black enough?” and accuses Drake – who is the most-streamed male artist of all time on Spotify – of selling out by merely making “music that pacify ‘em”.
Drake and Kendrick Lamar’s feud
The pair’s feud dates back to 2013 when Lamar – who had just broken out at the time – appeared on the Big Sean track Control to assert his dominance over his fellow rappers.
The same year, he aimed at Drake, referring to him as a “sensitive rapper” in a performance at the BET Awards. The feud reignited earlier this year, when Lamar made a guest appearance on Future and Metro Boomin’s hit Like That.
Lamar’s verse responds to a 2023 song called First Person Shooter by Drake and J Cole where the two artists called themselves, along with Lamar, the “big three” of hip-hop.
“Motherf**k the big three,” Lamar raps on Like That. “It’s just big me.”
A month later, in April, Drake released the first of two diss tracks. Titled Push Ups, the song mocks Lamar’s shorter stature as well as his mainstream collaborations with Maroon 5 and Taylor Swift.
That’s not all, another diss track by Drake used AI technology to imitate the voices of Snoop Dogg and the late Tupac Shakur and criticised Lamar.
Released on Instagram, the song quickly drew flak, including from Shakur’s estate, which sent a cease and desist letter calling the track “a blatant abuse of the legacy of one of the greatest hip-hop artists of all time”.
Drake eventually removed the song from his social media accounts.
The squabble has drawn in many rap peers over the past two months, including the Weeknd and Kanye West, to refer to the feud in their own tracks.
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