Kendrick Lamar has scored yet another victory over Drake thanks to his “Not Like Us” video.
The music video for K. Dot’s chart-topping diss song has raced to more than 41 million views on YouTube in the six days since its release last Thursday (July 4), cruising past Drizzy’s own diss track “Family Matters.”
That video, released over two months ago at the height of the high-profile battle, has racked up 35 million views (and counting).
“Family Matters” was also quickly overshadowed by Kendrick’s other diss song “Meet the Grahams” which was released roughly an hour later, fueling speculation that the Compton rapper had a mole in his rival’s camp.
YouTube isn’t the only arena in which Kendrick has bested Drake.
He has also dominated the OVO Sound hitmaker on streaming services, with “Not Like Us” amassing over 470 million streams on Spotify alone compared to 122 million for Drizzy’s “Push Ups.”
In fact, the Mustard-produced anthem has broken several of the 6 God’s records, including dethroning “God’s Plan” as the fastest rap song to reach 100 million streams on Spotify.
Kendrick’s widely perceived victory has also been underlined on the charts. “Not Like Us” and “Like That,” his collaboration with Future and Metro Boomin that set alight the long-simmering beef, both reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, while “Euphoria” peaked at No. 3.
Drake, meanwhile, failed to crack the top five, with “Family Matters” and “Push Ups” maxing out at No. 6 and No. 10, respectively.
Kendrick’s wider catalog also enjoyed a boost during the contest, with past albums like good kid, m.A.A.d city, To Pimp a Butterfly and DAMN. seeing huge surges on the Billboard 200.
Drizzy’s discography, on the other hand, suffered a slight slump.
Despite being deemed by many to have lost the battle, even some of Kendrick Lamar’s close friends aren’t counting Drake out just yet.
While weighing in on the beef earlier this week, Ab-Soul backed the Toronto rap star to make a comeback, although he claimed that Drake was never a lyrical match for his former TDE labelmate.
“If Drake is the MC I imagine he can be. Redemption is not off the table,” Solo wrote on X (formerly Twitter), before adding: “Key word ‘MC.’”
He then said: “But b4 my rant gets out of context. He could never Fucc wit da Gang’Nem on sum rap shyt. That was Never a question. We could still ‘potentially’ match ‘artistry’. (Removing my obvious personal/educated bias).”
this is the reason nobody in NYC raps other than whoever got paid off it. too much garbage in the community too much nonsense. young people turned their back on it. this is why no one respects the old dudes in rap. they just a bunch of weak clowns idolizing fake gangsters at 50 and 60 years old
but.. butt.. you are gay-ngster greg.
“Fake gangsters ”.. like the white, ex-child actor ,pop singer from Canada who pretends to be a gangster ?
He’s a super Gay Gangsta lol
90 percent of the garbage posted on this absolute joke of a website is about fruitcake Drake. LIKE LITERALLY 90 PERCENT! To the entire non-credible, fraudulent, embarrassing, laughable, corny, cringy, retarded DuncecapD/X SHIT STAFF: YOU SUPER SLOW SH0RT BUS RIDERS HAVE ALREADY REACHED YOUR OVER RATED AF FRUIT CAKE DRAKE QUOTA FOR THE MONTH LIKE 693 IRRELEVANT AZZ ARTICIES AGO. STUCK ON STUPID AZZ MFERS GET DRAKE’S BUTT HOLE OUT OF YOUR MOUTHS AND GO GET REAL FUCKING JOBS WHERE YOU CAN ACTUALLY MAKE SOME REAL MONEY AND NOT LAUGHED AT BY EVERYONE EVERY SINGLE DAY THE WAY YOU DICKHEADS DO NOW. THIS WHOLE RET@RDED TR@SH STAFF ARE THE POSTER LOSERS FOR WHAT N0T TO BE IN LIFE. It doesn’t get anymore pathetic than this gay goofy Will the cringy super simp Scooby.
Hey Willy I know I speak on behalf of all the non-cornballs when I say go nose dive off a really tall building I can guarantee you with 100 percent certainty that you won’t be missed.
Kendrick is a far better rapper but Drizzy’s got the best booty in the rap game. just saying
great greg is going to have a stroke lol
the booty bandit crew is such losers and clowns as if video views matter. 500m views and 2 dollar get you a soda punks
So views only matter if it’s in Drake’s favor. Got it.
Gay greg is so pissed haha
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