Rap Beef For Dummies: The Beginners Guide to Drake and Kendrick – M-A Chronicle
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This May, spring flowers came with an unexpected surprise: intense beef between rappers J. Cole, Kendrick Lamar, and Drake that took the internet by storm. As a casual enjoyer of all three main players—the self-proclaimed “big three” of rap—I was taken aback by the sheer quantity of history I needed to absorb to even begin to understand the beef.
In November 2011, Lamar and Drake made their first collaboration on Drake’s Take Care album in the song “Buried Alive Interlude.” Just a year later, Drake was featured on “Poetic Justice,” from Lamar’s album good kid, m.A.A.d. city. In 2012, they collaborated once again on A$AP Rocky’s track “F**kin’ Problems” from LONG.LIVE.A$AP. Unfortunately, this is where the collaboration and kindness ended.
In August 2013, Lamar took aim at Drake and other rappers in a feature on Big Sean’s “Control” in the line “Jermaine Cole…A$AP Rocky, Drake, Big Sean,…Tyler, Mac Miller / I got love for you all, but I’m tryna murder you n****s.” Drake responded to the diss when talking to Billboard, saying, “I know good and well that he’s not murdering me, at all, in any platform. So when that day presents itself, I guess we can revisit the topic.” ...
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