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Everything That’s Happened in the Drake-Kendrick Beef

The Kendrick Lamar-Drake beef explained

Most of Drake’s Kendrick-specific barbs are about the rapper being smaller than him in size and cultural stature, alleging he was caught in a bad deal with Anthony “Top Dawg” Tiffith at his former label, and how that led him to make seemingly out-of-character pop collabs with Taylor Swift and Maroon 5. Drake highlighted the way evolutions in AI stoked confusion around “Push Ups” and subsequent bogus or unclaimed tracks by using verses created with Tupac and Snoop Dogg’s voice in an attempt to goad Lamar into replying. Most shocking line: Drake’s “You better have a motherfuckin’ quintuple entendre on that shit,” a challenge which Kendrick seemingly took him up on, with fans breaking down the rapper’s subsequently dense disses

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