Who da GOAT: Drake vs K-dot diss tracks—who’ll be the first to raise the white flag?

“I’m like go on ‘head, say it then, who the G.O.A.T.?

Who the G.O.A.T.? Who the G.O.A.T.? Who the G.O.A.T.?

Who you […] really rootin’ for?” — First Person Shooter by Drake ft. J.Cole 

The hip-hop culture is alive and everyone is all ears for this beef between Drake (Drizzy) and Kendrick Lamar (K-dot) as they release diss tracks like they’re in a rap battle these past few days.

Only a week has passed and fans are already full of the beef that the two rappers were cooking as they were trolling each other with flaming words. Netizens have a lot to digest as which side is true by breaking down information mentioned in the diss tracks. 

How did they get to this?

It all started from Kendrick’s feature on “Like That” with Metro Boomin and Future from the “WE DON’T TRUST YOU” album where K-dot addresses Drake and J. Cole’s feature “First Person Shooter” as Cole said that he’s the G.O.A.T by metaphorically selfsame as he’s Muhammad Ali of hip-hop. 

“Love when they argue the hardest MC

Is it K-Dot? Is it Aubrey? Or me?

We the big three like we started a league, but right now, I feel like Muhammad Ali” – J. Cole on “First Person Shooter”

“Mother**** the big three, n****, it’s just big me,” – K-dot responded.

Few days after K-dot’s statement, J. Cole releases his seventh studio album “Might Delete Later” where he disses K-dot from his now-deleted track “7 Minute Drill.” 

“If he wasn’t dissin’, then we wouldn’t be discussin’ him”

The track was deleted after Cole publicly apologizes to Lamar during his Dreamville Festival show. He insisted how proud he was to his new album but regretted dissing K-dot.

“It’s one part of this […] where make me feel like ‘man that’s the lamest I ever did in my life’ […] I want to say right now tonight, how many people think Kendrick Lamar is the greatest […] to ever touch a microphone? Dreamville y’all love Kendrick Lamar, correct? As do I. So, I just want to come up here and be like, publicly be like, ‘Bro, that was the lamest, like goofiest [music I’ve done.]”

Cole also said that he felt terrible for releasing that music, and indeed the album title “might delete later” the track to all streaming services. 

Continuous beef between Drizzy and K-dot

Felt bombarded on the side-by-side affront of the two rappers? Well, everything’s just getting serious, so sit down and listen. 

On the same day of May 3, 2024, Drake responded with “Family Matters” that accused Lamar with information that one of his kids with Whitney (Kendrick’s wife) is not really his but it’s with Dave Free, the former president of Top Dawg Entertainment. 

“‘Cause all these rappers wavin’ white flags while the whole fuckin’ club sing to it” 

“There’s nowhere to hide, there’s nowhere to hide, you know what I mean

They hired a crisis management team to clean up the fact that you beat on your queen” – Drake on his diss track.

Drake not yet having his moments for an hour with his previous diss track, Kendrick already dropped “Meet the Grahams” on the same day addressing Drizzy as manipulator, misogyny, has a 11-year-old daughter and even disses Drake’s parents.

“Dear Adonis

I’m sorry that that man is your father, let me be honest

It takes a man to be a man, your dad is not responsive

I look at him and wish your grandpa woulda wore a condom,” – Kendrick’s message to Drake’s son Adonis.

“Dear Sandra

Your son got some habits, I hope you don’t undermine them

Especially with all the girls that’s hurt inside this climate

You a woman, so you know how it feels to be in alignment

With emotion, hopin’ a man can see you and not be blinded

Dear Dennis, you gave birth to a master manipulator

Even usin’ you to prove who he is is a huge favor” – Kendrick to Drake’s parents. 

“Not Like Us” vs. The Heart Part 6

Just a night passed, and Kendrick already released another diss track for Drake—”Not Like Us” which claims that Drizzy is a pedophile.

“Certified Lover Boy? Certified pedophiles,”

“Why you trolling like a [b****] aren’t you tires tryna strike a chord and it’s prolly A-Minor,”

And Drake keeps on serving fresh beats as he replies to K-dot with “The Heart Part 6” that seems to be a hard diss for entitling a song based on the Kendrick Lamar series release of ‘The Heart.’ 

“You waited for this moment

Overcome with desperation,

We plotted for a week

and then we feed you the information,” Drake tells Lamar that the team just tricked him with false information.

This just all happened this week and these two artists have their highest ego to surrender from this beef as no one is initiating a signal. 

For now, fans keep on enjoying music from the two legends that are throwing each others’ relentless words that once was educating us about ‘poetic justice.’

 Your guess is just good as mine as to who will raise the white flag first if K-dot and Drizzy are both competitive to fight for their pride. 

With reports from Alexandra Mae Uy