The diss track between Drake and Kendrick Lamar continues, and this time it gets personal. After the Compton rapper posted Friday morning 6:16 in LAboth released response tracks, one after the other, on the evening of May 3: Family Matters by Drake e Meet the Grahams by Kendrick Lamar.
“You mentioned my seed now deal with his dad,” begins Drake in the seven-minute song: “I gotta go bad, I gotta go bad.” Among the various shots at his rival, he attacks Lamar and his relationship with his girlfriend Whitney Alford: “Don’t even go back to your hood and plant no money trees,” rapper, referring to the Money Trees of 2012. “Say you hate the girls I fuck but what you really mean / I been with Black and white and everything in between / You the Black messiah wifing up a mixed queen / And hit vanilla cream to help out with your self-esteem”.
It goes even further with the mention of his children, which Lamar had already mentioned in last week’s diss track Euphoria: “Why you never hold your son and tell him say cheese / We could have left the kids out of this don’t blame me” Drake says, suggesting that the father of one of Lamar’s two children, a boy and a girl, is actually Dave Free, who has been a creative partner of Kendrick for years.
In Euphoria Lamar mentions a Chinese restaurant in Toronto called New Ho King, and in the video of Family MattersDrake appears in the venue itself: “Kendrick just opened his mouth / Someone go hand him a Grammy right now / Where is your Uncle at / Cause I wanna talk to the man of the house”. He then refers to the message that Tupac Shakur’s heirs sent him afterwards Taylor Made Freestylein which Drake used artificial intelligence to create new voices of the late rapper: “A cease and desist is for hoes / Can’t listen to lies that come out of your mouth / You called the Tupac estate and begged them to sue me and take that shit down”. Drake concludes by still calling his children into question: “Our sons should go play at the park / Two light-skinned kids, that shit would be cute / Unless you don’t want to be seen with anyone that’s Blacker than you”.
Lamar is no different with Meet the Grahams, in which each verse is directly addressed to members of Drake’s family, including son Adonis, mother Sandra, father Dennis, and apparently a daughter Drake has never spoken about. “Dear Adonis, I’m sorry that that man is your father, let me be honest It takes a man to be a man, your dad is not responsive”, he attacks. “I look at him and wish your grandpa woulda wore a condom / I’m sorry that you gotta grow up and then stand behind him”.
The second verse speaks to Drake’s mother: “Dear Sandra, your son got some habits, I hope you don’t undermine them / Especially with all the girls that’s hurt inside this climate”, and then it’s up to the father who, says Kendrick, “gave birth to a master manipulator” And “raised a horrible fuckin’ person”.
And then he turns to another little girl, who according to him Drake would have kept hidden: “Should be teachin’ you timetables or watchin’ ‘Frozen’ with you / Or at your eleventh birthday, singin’ poems with you / Instead, he be in Turks, payin’ for sex and poppin’ Percs”.
In short, the beefwhich started when Lamar responded to Drake and J. Cole in Like That After First Person Shooterprogressed quickly, involving everyone from Rick Ross and Metro Boomin to the Weeknd and Future.
