Kendrick Lamar‘s new music has rapidly drawn a response from his fierce rival Drake‘s camp — and for sure, it isn’t constructive.
On Wednesday (September 12), the Compton rap star launched an untitled observe on Instagram unexpectedly, simply because the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards had been kicking off.
Referred to by followers as “Watch the Get together Die,” the five-minute music finds Kendrick lamenting the state of the rap sport and wider music business (if not society as an entire) with lyrics like: “Avenue n-ggas and the company guys, the rappers that report the lies, I would like they households mortified / We are able to do life with out ’em, get they our bodies organized, inform me should you obliged.”
Though he doesn’t take any direct pictures at Drake as he did on different latest releases, Okay. Dot does seem to reference their high-profile battle by rapping: “Simply stroll that man down, that’ll do everybody a stable / It’s love, however robust love generally gotta end in violence.”
However, Drizzy’s longtime affiliate Baka Not Good didn’t take kindly to the music and was fast to dismiss it as a weak effort.
Whereas reacting to the observe on TikTok, the OVO Sound rapper took goal at Kendrick by writing: “Shit sound like how them footwear look lil n-gga [wastebasket emoji].”
It’s maybe no shock that Baka has an axe to grind with Okay. Dot contemplating he aimed a stray shot at him on his chart-topping diss music “Not Like Us.”
Whereas exposing these inside Drake’s crew, Kendrick rapped: “And Baka bought a bizarre case, why is he round?” with the lyric since being become a meme.
The road references Baka’s 2014 arrest for allegedly forcing a 22-year-old girl into prostitution and stealing her cash.
In response to the Toronto Solar, Baka (actual identify Travis Savoury) averted fees of procuring for prostitution and human trafficking however pleaded responsible to assaulting the girl.
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He was subsequently sentenced to 6 months in jail however allowed to stroll free as a consequence of time served.
Whereas he’s but to react to “Watch the Get together Die” himself, Drake did not too long ago seem to deal with the continuing debate surrounding Kendrick Lamar’s upcoming Tremendous Bowl halftime present in New Orleans.
Seemingly agreeing with those that imagine the gig ought to’ve been given to hometown hero Lil Wayne, the 6 God posted a number of throwback pictures of his Younger Cash mentor on social media shortly after Nicki Minaj and Birdman had voiced their complaints.
