Kendrick Lamar openly criticizes Drake and J. Cole in new song, why

On a New Song, Kendrick Lamar Appears To Take Shots At Drake And J. Cole: What You Should Know About The Rap Battle

Rapper Kendrick Lamar may have made fun of Drake and J. Cole in a new song from Future and Metro Boomin’s joint album, restarting a rap feud that has lasted 10 years. This set off a social media firestorm on Friday.

The highly anticipated joint album “We Don’t Trust You” by rapper Future and music producer Metro Boomin debuted on Friday. The album features tracks from Travis Scott, Playboi Carti, The Weeknd, Rick Ross, and Kendrick Lamar.

Lamar, who is featured on the song “Like That,” caused a stir on social media when he seemed to be disparaging rappers Drake and J. Cole by referencing their collaboration song “First Person Shooter,” which was released in 2023.

“Yes, come on up with me, f-sneak dissing ‘First Person Shooter,’ and hopefully three switches with them,” Glock switches are prohibited gun accessories that let rifles or handguns to fire like machine guns, according to Lamar.

Lamar goes on, tagging Drake, Lamar, and himself as the “big three” of rap in the lyric “think I won’t drop the location/ I still got PTSD, motherf—the big three, it’s just big me.” This might be a reference to a phrase from “First Person Shooter.”

Then, Lamar seemed to be taking direct aim at Drake when he sang, “‘fore all your dogs gettin’ buried/ that’s a K with all these nines, he gon’ see ‘Pet Sematary,’” alluding to the Canadian rapper’s most recent album “For All The Dogs.”

The intricate and over ten-year relationship between Drake and Lamar includes their collaborations on several songs and albums, such as “F-Problems” and “Poetic Justice.” In 2012, Lamar even traveled with Drake on his Club Paradise Tour, which brought in close to $43 million and sold about 750,000 tickets. But after Kendrick Lamar dissed several rappers, including Drake, J. Cole, Big Sean, Mac Miller, and A$AP Rocky, in a 2013 verse on Big Sean’s song “Control,” it appeared that their beef had gone public. Lamar said, “I got love for you all, but I’m tryna murder you/ Tryna make sure your core fans never heard of you/ They don’t wanna hear not one more noun or verb from you.”

Later that month, Drake addressed the criticism in a Billboard interview, saying, “It just sounded like an ambitious thought to me.” “I am fully aware that Kendrick is not going to murder me on any platform at all.” October of that year saw the release of Drake’s fourth album, “Nothing Was the Same,” which stoked rumors that Lamar had made fun of him during the 2013 BET Hip-Hop Awards Cyphers in October. “Yeah, and nothing’s been the same since they dropped ‘Control,’” rapped Kendrick Lamar. “They tucked a sensitive rapper back in his pajamas.” F

org Then, in 2016, NFL player Marcellus Wiley said that the two rappers were having “beef.” He said that he had seen a cut-down 2013 interview from one of the rappers, though he did not identify them, that “would have ignited” an even larger feud. In a 2019 interview, Drake said that he had “a lot of respect” for Cole and Lamar and expressed excitement in seeing “who can go that extra stretch… who can transcend the generations.”