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‘You a scam artist’: the most brutal moments in Kendrick Lamar’s Drake diss track

The long-awaited rebuttal to Drake has arrived: Euphoria, a track in which Lamar dismantles Drake’s street credibility. But why use misogyny and homophobia to do it?

Haymakers were thrown yesterday by Kendrick Lamar towards Drake as rap’s top bout enters another round, following duels involving undercards such as J Cole, Rick Ross, Future and A$AP Rocky. Follow up he now has, with Euphoria, which many are putting straight into the diss track hall of fame thanks to a sustained barrage of blows against Drake’s Blackness, street credibility, artistic depth, financial agreements, romantic relationships and more. Another major echo of The Story of Adidon comes in how Lamar chides Drake for not, in his eyes, properly raising his son Adonis, in a sustained series of unadorned lines: “Giving him tools to walk through life like day-by-day, know nothing ’bout that / Teaching him morals, integrity, discipline, listen, man, you don’t know nothing ’bout that.” Lamar’s hackles are clearly up after Drake’s allegation about his wife, and escalates the family drama: “Talk about me and my family, crodie?

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