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".

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