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It's been a few days since the last diss track was released so it seems as if we've at least reached a pause in the Drake/Kendrick beef. Articles have gone from Check Out This Amazing Creative Run Of Songs By These Major Artists Targeting Each Other to People Need To Stop Giving These Misogynists Attention How Dare They Release These Songs While We Clutch Our Pearls Standing At The Fire We've Spent The Last Month Pouring Gasoline On. I'm not here to dissect the lyrics nor to point out that collateral damage to most beefs be it rap or rock and roll has almost always been women and queer men. I just think there was some solid music released that I enjoyed listening to, even if you won't see me singing these at karaoke in the near or distant future. I'm giving the last word to Mackelmore, which I feel weird about because this was a feud that sometimes centered on the valildity of the Blackness of the artists. But. In addition to the more positive Free Palestine/criticism of how the American media and Biden's administration of "Hind's Hall" , I feel like it sums up the media's quick turn of Why Are We Paying Attention To Drake? So it's hopefully not like ending a mix about the Dr. Dre/Eazy-E feud with "Thrift Shop". 1. Family Matters by Drake 2. Can You Say Yeah? by Andrew Wartts & Gospel Storytellers 3. Meet The Grahams by Kendrick Lamar 4. I Believe To My Soul by Monk Higgins 5. Not Like Us by Kendrick Lamar 6. Prove It by Aretha Franklin 7. The Heart Part 6 by Drake 8. BBL Drizzy by Metro Boomin 9. Ana La Habibi by Fairouz 10. Hind's Hall by Mackelmore
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I thought this was going to be the conclusion (as of May 7th, 2024) of the Drake/Kendrick Lamar beef. But an important part of the most recent release in the feud is that Drake had written a Part 6 for a series of songs written by Kendrick Lamar. It's not good. But it's definitely an important part of the feud, and it hinges on knowing some of Lamar's "The Heart Part" songs. I decided to include 2-5 on this album, which includes an incredible but also incredibly long track by 24 Carat Black. So this album is already stretched to an hour, and I just couldn't justify going for another 45 minutes or so. So there will be a What Beef 5 posted later today. There aren't really many features on this album, as the actual Kendrick and Drake songs all came out in the last week, and they didn't have time to get collaborators. Also, if I were anywhere near this feud I would have also backed out this week. As Kendrick's songs get tighter and more specific, Drake's get limper and eventually, for all their personal barbs, they sound more like a white mom with no writing skills was writing an angry Youtube comment than the verse of a professional rapper with twenty years in the business. His song on this album is okay. But I don't think it's much of a surprise that he's not the rapper on this album that has a Pulitzer Prize and a bunch of Grammys. 1. Taylor Made by Drake 2. Euphoria by Kendrick Lamar 3. You're My Latest, My Greatest Inspiration by Teddy Pendergrass 4. The Heart Part 2 by Kendrick Lamar Ft. Dash Snow 5. The Heart Part 3 by Kendrick Lamar 6. Poverty's Paradise by 24 Carat Black 7. Don't Tell A Lie About Me & I Won't Tell The Truth About You by James Brown 8. The Heart Part 4 by Kendrick Lamar 9. What A Wonderful Thing Love Is by Al Green 10. The Blacker The Berry by Kendrick Lamar Ft. Assassin 11. The Heart Part 5 by Kendrick Lamar 12. 6:16 In LA by Kendrick Lamar
The Drake vs Kendrick Lamar beef had a slow build. First it enveloped J Cole but then Future's collaborative albums, We Don't Believe You and We Still Don't Believe You upped the game a bit. It dared Drake to respond. So Drake responded. These are pretty much the slapping of a 19th century dueling glove. Yea, there's a little bit of sting here but as far as personal attacks go, it's got nothing on part four. But musically, this has some solid steel. I debated whether to include the Temptations version of "Smiling Faces Sometimes", which has always been a favorite of mine but The Undisputed Truth's version, which appears here just fits better with Future and Drake's music. 1. Redemption by Snorre Tidemand 2. Look Me In The Eyes by Joe Washington and Wash 3. First Person Shooter by Drake Ft. J Cole 4. Eazy Duz It by Eazy-E 5. Like That by Future Ft. Metro Boomin and Kendrick Lamar 6. 7 Minute Drill by J Cole 7. Five To One by The Doors 8. Takeover by Jay-Z 9. Smiling Faces Sometimes by Undisputed Truth 10. Jumpman by Drake Ft. Future 11. We Still Don't Trust You by Future Ft. Metro Boomin and The Weeknd 12. Red Leather by Future Ft. J Cole 13. (Don't Worry) If There's A Hell Below We're All Going To Go by Curtis Mayfield 14. Show Of Hands by Future Ft. A$AP Rocky and Metro Boomin 15. Push Ups by Drake and DJ Akademiks
In 2018, I did a musical primer for the Drake/Meek Mills feud, complete with the songs they sampled, and the songs that inspired their feud. It's 2024 and Drake is in a deeper feud with someone whose lyrics and musical skills put Drake's to shame. And Drake is by no means terrible. He just isn't Kendrick Lamar. It's going to take two mixes just to take us up to May 2024. This one starts in 2010 and goes to last June. Like the original "What's Beef" primer, it's full of samples that go back to the 1970s, and it's designed to be chronological to the beef but also fun to listen to as one long mix. I can't offer much commentary because I'm a music fan not a music journalist. But check out any site that proclaims to be about music and they'll have at least three articles about this feud. If they don't, they're either incompetent or racist. 1. Double Barrel by Ansel & Dave Collins 2. Biz Is Going Off by Biz Markie 3. Buried Alive Interlude by Drake ft. Kendrick Lamar 4. Poetic Justice by Kendrick Lamar ft. Drake 5. Any Time Any Place by Janet Jackson 6. El Pueblo Unido Jamás Será Vencido by Quilapayún and Sergio Ortega 7. Get Bizy by Kendrick Lamar ft. Kurupt 8. Me Against The World by Tupac Shakur 9. Control by Big Sean ft. Kendrick Lamar 10. SRL2 by Lupe Fiasco 11. Everyone Nose (Remix) by NERD ft. Kanye West, Lupe Fiasco 12. TKO (Black Friday Remix) by Justin Timberlake ft. J Cole, A$AP Rocky, Pusha T 13. The Language by Drake 14. 100 by The Game ft. Drake 15. Feel The Fire by Peabo Bryson 16. Element By Kendrick Lamar 17. Ha by Juvenile 18. Sticky by Drake 19. PDLIF by Bon Iver 20. Hillbillies by Baby Keem & Kendrick Lamar
I made a mixtape of songs from the Drake/Pusha T feud that included some of the songs sampled in the various diss tracks. 1. BTSTU by Jai Paul 2. Dreams Money Can Buy by Drake 3. Don't Fuck With Me by Pusha T 4. What's Beef by Notorious BIG 5. Exodus 23:1 by Pusha T ft The-Dream 6. We're The Royal Macadamia Nuts by The Turtles 7. Serious (Ceereeus BDP Remix) by Steady B ft KRS-One 8. Keep It Thoro by Prodigy 9. When Seasons Change by Curtis Mayfield 10. Tuscan Leather by Drake 11. HGTV Freestyle by Pusha T 12. Two Birds One Stone by Drake 13. I Want To make Up by 24 Carat Black 14. Infrared by Pusha T 15. Ever So Lovingly by Tata Vega 16. Duppy Freestyle by Drake 17. Four Women by Nina Simone 18. Story of OJ by Jay-Z 19. Shut Em Down by Public Enemy 20. I'm On One DJ Khaled ft Drake, Rick Ross & Lil Wayne 21. Story Of Adidon by Pusha T 22. Right Now by Van Halen 23. Good Night, Good Lucky by Empire ft Drake
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