Drake has attempted to reassert his dominance in the rap game amid the ongoing drama involving Kendrick Lamar and J. Cole.
Hip Hop’s “Big Three” have been at the center of the conversation lately thanks to Kendrick dissing both Drizzy and Cole on Future and Metro Boomin’s “Like That.”
Cole then fired back on “7 Minute Drill” before controversially retracting his diss song and apologizing to the Compton rapper on stage at Dreamville Festival.
While Drake has yet to directly address Kendrick’s lyrical darts, he has issued what appears to be another oblique response by flexing some of his achievements on social media.
Posting on his Instagram Stories on Tuesday (April 9), Drizzy uploaded a picture of two Billboard Music Awards that he won in 2023 for Best Rap Song and Best Rap Album, with both prizes shared with 21 Savage.
“@21savage wipe down,” he captioned the image.
As rap fans eagerly await an official response from Drake, Kendrick Lamar’s “Like That” verse is alleged to have complicated the 6 God’s relationship with J. Cole.
On the latest episode of the New Rory & Mal podcast, Mal claimed that Drizzy told him he had concerns about joining Cole on stage at this past weekend’s Dreamville Festival due to “7 Minute Drill.”
“He might get mad at me for talking about but he knows he’s my n-gga. I asked Drake one question. I said, ‘Yo, you going to Dream Fest this weekend?’” the podcaster said.
“And he gave me an answer that was kind of weird Friday night hearing it, but Sunday night it made all the sense in the world. He says, ‘I don’t know, should I? ‘Cause it’s weird right now. Are we performing the record? Can we ever perform ‘First Person Shooter’?’”
Mal continued to relay Drake’s response, seemingly in his own words: “He has to change the bar now. He has to shit on Kendrick now. So we gonna shit on Kendrick every time we do the record? Nobody wants to hear us together unless we dissing Kendrick.”
The comments referenced Cole’s lyrics on “First Person Shooter” where he praises Kendrick: “Love when they argue the hardest MC/ Is it K. Dot? Is it Aubrey? Or me?/ We the big three like we started a league, but right now, I feel like Muhammad Ali.”
Meanwhile, some believe that Drake is preparing a lyrical response to Kendrick Lamar, who he previously collaborated with on songs such as “Marvin’s Room” and “Fucking Problems” along with A$AP Rocky and 2 Chainz.
Last weekend, the Toronto rap star shared a photo on his Instagram Stories that showed the inside of what appeared to be a sports locker room.
On a bench was the Larry O’Brien Championship Trophy (given each year to the winner of the NBA Finals), next to a notebook and a pen, seemingly indicating that Drake was preparing some prize-winning rhymes.
Cole called himself Muhammad Ali just Togo on stage duck a heavyweight battle and act like a woman. I’ll never check Cole the same again.. wanna be humble stay in ur lane calling yourself the best
I’m sure he cares so much. “oh shit, another dumb nicca won’t listen to my music for free anymore” 😮
Ali….smh…more like the Glass Joe of hip-hop.
Good point lol why pay for rappers music just to let them brag in your face? I digest all hip hop free now, I’d rather support real humble artists w my money.
Weird when he’s not even hip hop
Right!! Because he’s bigger than hip hop !! The Goat!!
now Mal’s Drakes bestfriend lol
Drake dont even write his own raps and sings most of the time
Drake does write his own raps & also writes for other people. Drake has been running the rap game for 13yrs straight.
A sub asserting dominance.. hilarious.
ATTENTION: Sam the beyond pathetic simp B00re and the rest of the non-credible, fraudulent, embarrassing, laughable, corny, cringy, retarded DuncecapD/X SHIT STAFF: YOU SH0RT BUS RIDERS HAVE ALREADY REACHED YOUR OVER RATED AF FRUIT CAKE DRAKE QUOTA FOR THE MONTH. STUCK ON STUPID AZZ MFERS GET DRAKE’S BUTT HOLE OUT OF YOUR MOUTHS AND GO GET REAL JOBS. THIS WHOLE RE T@RDED TR@SH STAFF ARE THE POSTER LOSERS FOR WHAT N0T TO BE IN LIFE.
Whoever wrote this needs to fact check better cause kendrick and drake made “Poetic Justice” not “Marvins Room”
Drake AI would be killin it sometimes. Real Drake need to show that off imo. Then we got somethin. Real Drake got some fire too though but not in the hard hiphop way
drake already washed kendrick on every track they did together.
FACTS!!!
Poetic Justice: DRAKE
F”n problems: DRAKE
Tell me a song Drake didn’t wash kendrick on… c’mon now
Can’t wait for 21 to switch sides and start dissing Drake 🗣️