Rap beef sells records and now Drake is using AI to channel the sound of Tupac and Snoop Dogg to help in his latest freestyle. Here’s the latest. The beef kicked off at the end of March when Future and Metro Boomin dropped the song “Like That” featuring Kendrick Lamar. The entire feature is a […]
Future, Rick Ross and Kanye West are among those currently being drawn into one of the fieriest disputes in rap history. Is it good for the culture – and could it depose Drake from the top?One rapper is accused of being derivative while another is mocked for his height. This jibe leads another to join in and accuse the taller man of having buttock implants. A fourth man decides to join in, but quickly retracts his comments for the sake of an easier life. And so it goes on, a feud labelled as a...
The long-running saga enters a new chapter, as Kanye offers his two cents in a fresh diss track.
Drake has a problem. It isn’t—at least not yet—Kendrick Lamar, who escalated a decade of tacit rivalry into open conflict with a diss verse on “Like That,” currently the no. 1 song in the country. (Kendrick has yet to answer Drake’s first response, “Push Ups (Drop & Give Me 50),” leaked last weekend.) Nor is Drake’s problem the larger onslaught of disgruntled collaborators who’ve suddenly teamed up against him, with disses of their own, in the aftermath of “Like That.” Yes, Drake is greatly...
Veteran rapper Styles P has added his voice to the ongoing feud between hip-hop heavyweights Kendrick Lamar and Drake, expressing his belief that the escalating tension could reignite a competitive spirit in the genre that has been missing for years. In an Instagram post shared on Saturday, Styles P shared his candid thoughts on the […] The post Styles P Weighs In on Kendrick Lamar and Drake Feud first appeared on The Source.
Lupe Fiasco is weighing in on the Kendrick Lamar and Drake beef. His take may shock some in the Hip-Hop community. Appearing in a Spaces conversation, Lupe stated that he thinks Drake is a better rapper than K. Dot. “Drake got bars,” Lupe said. “So I would give it to Drake. I think Kendrick’s a […] The post Lupe Fiasco Thinks Drake is a Better Rapper Than Kendrick Lamar first appeared on The Source.
When we said "channel the spirit of Tupac", this is not what we meant Aubrey.In the latest saga of the current hip-hop Civil War, featuring Drake and Kendrick
During this relentless week of back-and-forth diss records from those who many claim to be the best in the game, certified slang spitter Lupe Fiasco may have just dragged himself into the ongoing rap beef by boldly claiming that Drake is a “better rapper” than Kendrick Lamar. In an interview with Aye Verb on X […] The post [LISTEN] Lupe Fiasco Claims That Drake Is A “Better Rapper” Than Kendrick Lamar first appeared on The Source.
Days after its leak, Drake has officially released his response to Kendrick Lamar’s barbed verse on Metro Boomin and Future’s “Like That,” which took aim at him and J. Cole and is currently No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. On “Push Ups,” Drake targets not only Lamar but also the Weeknd, Rick Ross, Metro Boomin, and Cole himself. Check it out below. The back-and-forth began in earnest with Lamar’s verse on “Like That,” itself a response to Cole’s “First Person Shooter,” in which he referred to...
Tupac Shakur’s estate threatened legal action over Drake’s use of AI-generated vocals impersonating the later rapper
Tupac Shakur’s estate is none too happy about Drake cloning the late hip-hop legend’s voice in a Kendrick Lamar diss track. Billboard reported Wednesday that attorney Howard King, representing Mr. Shakur’s estate, sent a cease-and-desist letter calling Drake’s use of Shakur’s voice “a flagrant violation of Tupac’s publicity and the estate’s legal rights.” Drake (Aubrey Drake Graham) dropped the diss track “Taylor Made Freestyle” last Friday, the latest chapter of the artist’s simmering...
In a cease-and-desist letter, the estate says it would ‘never have given its approval’ for Drake to make the song