Akademiks is actually taking Kendrick Lamar‘s side amid accusations that Dot stole lyrics for his club-worthy Drake diss “Not Like Us” from Twitter.
Despite being an avid Drake stan, Ak wants to give credit where it’s due. During his live stream on Rumble this week, he addressed the viral post that included older tweets from fans who wrote things similar to what Kendrick raps on the song – and chocked it up to pure coincidence.
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“I’ma just keep it 100. I’ma just give Kendrick his credit for being a genius. This is a good song,” he admitted. “It’s a little dumbed down but that’s exactly what it needed to work. I don’t gotta sit here and try to belittle his efforts… I think it makes us look like salty Drake fans just trying to create shit to discredit the n-gga.”
You can view the video here.
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But even though he’s backing Kendrick Lamar on the stealing accusations, Akademiks still believes Drake won the battle.
During an appearance on the Flagrant podcast that was published on Wednesday (May 8), the streamer made a case as to why Drizzy got the better of K.Dot over their heated back-and-forth.
“The rules aren’t the same for both artists,” he explained to host Andrew Schulz at the 1:32:33 mark below. “‘Like That’ was a response to a song called ‘First Person Shooter’ — he drops ‘Like That,’ Drake has never ducked a battle. He’s always been there, right? It’s been like two weeks, Drake didn’t say anything. You know what everyone says: ‘He’s scared.’ This what I’m saying [about] changing the rules.
“Okay, Drake drops — it’s two weeks now, we’re waiting for Kendrick. ‘Yo, chill out, yo, he just takes a while to cook.’ Like what people think about both artists doing the same thing, just taking time to create music.”
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He added: “I do like this ‘Not Like Us’ record, I like this record, but I’ma be honest with you. The majority of this battle before we got to this, was Kendrick Lamar sitting back and saying, ‘I’m going to pick you apart as a man — they very fabric of what you portray [yourself] to be. You’ve stolen culture, you’re a bad parent, you’ve made the same mistakes and you won’t live up the responsibility.’
“And you’re looking at him, like. ‘Damn, maybe this guy is a fraud,’ so now if [these are all] completely lies …”
