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How the West Was Won: 5 Ways Kendrick Lamar Defeated Drake

Kendrick Lamar has emerged victorious from his ongoing feud with Drake. Here's five ways how he did it.

He seemed to plot everything out in advance — from teasing a bit of the eventual Dennis Graham Dossier with the “6:16 in LA” cover art to revealing the full picture with “Meet the Grahams.” The Compton rapper refrained from posting on social media unless it was to drop a song, and didn’t leak records or information to popular streamers. His trolling may have went bit too far, though, as he had to take down “Taylor Made Freestyle,” in which he used AI to rap in the voices of 2Pac and Snoop Dogg, after the Shakur estate threatened legal action if it wasn’t wiped from Drake’s YouTube channel and social media accounts. Ebro Darden, the longtime Hot 97 morning show host and Apple Music’s resident hip-hop expert, took to Threads to let off about what he thought was an apt historical precedent for how this feud has unfolded.

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