is there something that brought this on?

Drake, Kendrick Lamar Beef Explained: A Timeline this has been brewing since 2011

A Complete Track-by-Track Timeline of Drake and Kend...

Tumblr I found this to be a good rundown myself, with links to some of the songs not in the beef but are relevant

I was too scared to ask

i was going to link the same one that florescentia did

i shake your hand

the tldr is this has been simmering for a while, drake opened his mouth and kendrick finally decided he’s had enough and is now not only calling drake out for hitting on and possibly sleeping with underage girls but he’s also backing megan up wrt to her accusations about drakes label

there’s a handful of bars in at least one track implying he’s getting fed info from drakes team

he’s publicly beating the shit out of drake and it’s pretty satisfying

he also accuses drake of having a second hidden child, a daughter

florescentia: so satisfying given how long the shirt about under age girls has been going around like an open secret

thank goodness; the only things I know about either of these people are that they're musicians lmao

right??

people have been saying it but not SAYING it

oh my god thank you for asking this, i too have been too scared to ask but now i am so much wiser

the thing people are memeing on is drake firing back with stuff like umm you don’t go back to your hood

and acting like he’s one upped

that tumblr has some other good posts about it too, op points out that kendrick now has a club hit accusing drake of sex trafficking

Drake if I remember correctly was also having sleep overs with Millie Bobby Brown like during s1 or s2 of stranger things

yeah, she said they were close friends and texted every day when she was 14

oh forgot to mention, drake had to pull one of his tracks involved in this because he used ai to mimic tupac and his estate sent a c&d (he used it for snoop too but i haven’t been able to find any reaction from snoop)

I've been so confused about this thank you for asking

I haven't listened to any of the songs as they're not really my type of music but reading the lyrics helps a lot for context

i remember the Millie thing and her at 14 not understanding why it was creepy af, and everyone was like MILLIE. LOL. THIS IS NOT NORMAL. I wonder if now that she's older she's starting to get it

theskyisnew: I think that depends on how much grooming happened because her parents were cool with it

there is also just a lot of simmering resentment on both ends about the dichotomy of the most successful rapper vs the most respected rapper

kendrick is leveraging that pretty hard, as he was crowned by the culture exactly how drake was denied due to his inauthenticity

Let the record show that yes they are both musicians but Kendrick is Beethoven and Drake is Vanilla Ice

q: what do you get when the most successful and least respected man in modern music comes at the most respected worker rapper in the game?

a: you get what's fucking coming

So imagine that Drake is a very loud and unruly child who is in over his head, in addition to a pedophile

my coworker was joking that she heard kendrick just has 19 hours already locked and loaded and he’s just pulling from that every time drake tries to get back up

florescentia: honestly your coworker sounds correct ngl

with the rate at which kendrick is slapping down responses?

yeah, i believe him when he says he’s got someone on the inside leaking info

i personally had no idea where/when/why the beef started but was so glad to finally see a big name and lbr another man in the business smacking drake down and calling him out for being fucking disgusting

i've been anti-drake since i found out about his "friendship" with millie bobby brown a few years ago so i'm just sitting back with my popcorn like "yeah, get the fucker"

also metro boomin jumping in like "free beat to whoever wants to lay down a track against drake" is genius and i support it

possibly multiple someone’s

very likely, honestly

a loooot of people hate drake lmfao so

sit down papi

take the l and keep quiet, he's only making it worse for himself whenever he tries to reply

my other question is does this mean we can finally, as a culture, talk about something that isn't taylor swift?

no because in the pulled diss track drake references her

there were swifties deep in this beef analyzing lyrics, so sort of yes, but only because Drake referenced her and then one of Kendrick's diss was produced by someone who works with Taylor

yeah i've also heard drake is the male version of taylor but obviously kendrick worked with her

but let us exclude her from the narrative

yeah she really doesn’t need to be part of this, drake

Taylor over here like the John Mulaney quote "I was sitting on the bench!!!"

yeah taylor def doesn't really have a spot in this discussion

it is worth noting that kendrick hasn't released a response to drake's latest drop, but he also doesn't really need to

no yeah i don't think he really does i feel like he has already won

if i was kendrick i’d just drop the album

Security guard shot at Drake's Toronto home amid bee...so..... the new chapter of this beef just started

nnh yeah i read that a little bit ago. i don't know if it's actually related or not, because people are saying that drake's address and like -- blueprints of his house are pretty readily available. scary if it is, though, god

ohhh shit

Word on ffa is that it's related to a different beef between drakes label and the weeknd's

See above point: a lot of people hate drake

good lord

grain of salt

oh also side note is j. cole has won the bullet dodged award for being adjacent to the start of the beef and then like. immediately realizing he stepped in it, taking down his own diss track and then apologizing.

GESTURES AT ALL THIS

i saw a post on tumblr like “j cole is doing the metaphorical equivalent of sitting on his back porch, watching the sunset, sipping a lemonade”