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Now that some time has passed and we’ve all had a chance to process the insanity of last weekends events, I figured I’d go back to the beginning of the beef and see if anything stuck out as note worthy now in hindsight. The following is a blow-by-blow account of one of the biggest rap beefs in Hip Hop History.

10/06 - First Person Shooter

-Drake and Cole colab on a song for Drakes album For All The Dogs. Cole makes reference to the “Big Three” in rap referring to himself Drake and Kendrick. Drake or his team reach out to Kendrick for a feature, however Kendrick ignores the request.

03/22 - Like That

-Kendrick, salty to see FPS turn into a huge hit, and bitter with himself for not being man enough to get past his own insecurities and accept Drakes request for feature decides to run his mouth

04/13 - Push Ups

-Drakes been poking at kendrick since he dropped the Control verse and he’s HYPED that Kendrick finally came direct

-Whoo Kid Tag - Subtle enough at the time that it could really just seem like a call back to the GUNIT beefs from the 00’s… but the fact Whoo Kid had nothing to do with the production on the song, ya gotta think it made Kendrick pause for a second and wonder

-“I be with some bodyguards like Whitney”

-“Rolling Loud stage, y'all were turnt, that was slick as hell Shit'll probably change if your BM starts to kiss and tell”

04/24 - Taylor Made Freestyle

-The 2pac verse really is diabolical. It’s no longer just about responding to Drake. Drake paints Kendrick into a corner to where he basically HAS to respond. If not, he’ll be letting down the entire west coast and be disgracing the torch that Pac and Snoop have passed on to him.

-“I know you in that NY apartment… you better have a quintuple entendre”… The closing lines had to make Kendrick’s stomach drop when he heard them. “He knows… and if he knows I’m living in NY, and he’s bringing it up then he must know WHY I’m living in NY”

04/30 - Euphoria

-Kendrick starts by trying his best to preempt what he already knows is coming. He begins laying the groundwork for a narrative that Drake is a liar and a “master manipulator.” He’s already trying to discredit things that Drake hasn’t even mentioned yet.

-Kendrick is the first one to directly bring family into the beef with the bars about Drake being a shitty father and not teaching his son how to be a man

-KENDRICK LAMAR — The KING of meticulously crafted lyrics somehow fucks up a line about the movie AI and confuses the guy who stared in it with a television evangelist?? It might not be a huge deal, but it seems like an unforced error by KDot and very out of character considering his reputation as a perfectionist.

-He seems to know exactly what Drake’s going to say about his son and BM

-Kendrick tries hard to portray himself as the voice of the black community at large, and to make his personal grievances against Drake into those of “the culture”

05/03 - 6:16 In LA

-Kendrick doubles down on the attempt to portray Drake as liar.

-He again tries to discredit things that Drake still hasn’t brought up at this point. “Smell somebody lying, I don’t see no fire” essentially, whatever Drake’s about to say is just smoke - without the fire. There’s no basis for his lies

-Kendrick laughably tries to play off the fact that he’s been spending time in Brooklyn just for the pizza

-Again tries to discredit what’s coming as “propaganda”

05/03 - Family Matters

-Drakes RED BUTTON

-I think it’s probably fair to say Drake has always felt some type of way about Kendricks accolades over the course of their careers. He says as much with the first line in the third verse when he mocks the fact that Kendrick seems to get a grammy every time he opens his stupid mouth. -Drake goes on to completely humiliate Kendrick by dismantling his entire persona as a positive role mode for “the culture”. This isn’t just Drake getting back at Kendrick. He’s finally getting back at all the institutions and media outlets that have dismissed him as being pop or R&B — someone not worthy of wearing the Hip Hop crown.

-If anything, this is Drakes only miscalculation. He underestimates the backlash and fury from everyone that crowned KDot as the black messiah and the savior of black culture over the last decade. Those people have skin in the game and their own credibility on the line and by exposing Kendrick, Drake makes them look like fools as well.

-The closing lines echo in your head after only a few listens. “There’s nowhere to hide, there’s nowhere to hide, you know what I mean……”

05/04 - Meet The Grahams

-Kendrick’s HAIL MARRY - He’s been completely exposed. He’s been stripped bare of everything he’s pretended to be. He’s never extorted anyone. He’s never been a gangster. He’s always been the short kid getting picked on by the bullies. He’s not present as a father. He’s not a good husband. He’s not a role model for the community that’s bent over backwards to shower him with praise and accolades. He’s a fraud and the worst part is, even Kendrick knows it.

-And so what do you do when you’ve got no where else to hide and nothing meaningful to use for your rebuttal? You call the other guy a pedophile. You say most brutal and heinous things you can think of so at the very least you can change the subject to something other than the huge revelations about your personal life that were just made public.

-And…the entirety of Hip Hop world is shocked lol.. Meet the Grahams is without a doubt the most brutal thing I’ve ever heard put to wax. I didn’t even know what to think when I heard it, and I think it probably got a similar reaction from Drake and his camp.

05/04 - Not Like Us

-Damage control. Kendrick realizes he may have overplayed his hand with the completely fabricated story of an illegitimate daughter, so he tries to double down on the pedophilia accusations and culture war because at least there’s SOME basis for it in Drake’s history — even if every time the media has tried to play that angle every girl implicated has come out in Drake’s defense.

-Now that Kendrick has basically flipped over table and successfully put Drake on the defensive his last play is to make a song with a catchy beat and some replay value so that the conversation stays on Drake, and stays off Kendrick’s own damaging revelations.

05/05 - THE HEART PART 6

-Drake is still kinda dumbfounded by the events of the last 48 hours.

-He does what he can to ice the wounds and salvage his reputation.

-He tries his best to capitalize on Kendrick’s misstep about the estranged daughter and sell it as misinformation that OVO fed to Kendrick intentionally. This seems unlikely at best, since they would have absolutely saved some receipts to share as proof for later. But, since Drake knows the information isn’t true there’s nothing to lose by saying his camp planted the false narrative to trip Kendrick up. What could Kendrick possibly say to refute this? That he wasn’t fed the false information and simply made the whole thing up himself?

-It’s very common for people who suffered from sexual trauma as children to end up hyper-vigilant towards any sign of these behaviors when they become adults. Drake plays the only card he’s got left and questions if this might be the real motivation behind Kendrick’s baseless claims of pedophilia.

-However it’s clear Drake doesn’t actually believe Kendrick was a victim of abuse because he closes the song by pointing out the hypocrisy of Kendrick coming to R Kelly’s defense.

-It’s pretty clear from the entire song that Drake is on his back foot and trying his best to bring the situation back to a place where he’s in control. This entire thing has spiraled in a direction that he did not anticipate.

05/10 - The Verdict

-Ultimately, there is no winner. Regardless of the lack of factual basis for any of Kendrick’s allegations, it’s clearly not a great look for Drake. A large percentage of the Hip-Hop world now believes that he’s some kind of Jeffery Epstein protege, operating a sex trafficking ring out of The Embassy with a staff of predators on his payroll. Kendrick might not have had a red button he could press, but he sure as fuck made good on the promise of Mutually Assured Destruction. He was put in a no-win situation where the best he could do was force a draw.

I wholeheartedly believe that Drake would not be at the status he is now had he not been shoved down Canadians throats for years and years as Canadian radio stations are forced to play atleast 35% Canadian Content.

We’re truly in the meme renaissance with this beef