Drake has put more pressure on Kendrick Lamar with a second diss track within the span of a week, this time with some technological assistance.
On Friday (April 19), less than a week after “Push Ups” leaked online, the Canadian superstar amped up his feud with K.Dot with a new joint. Whereas the authenticity of his first counterattack was under speculation for a while, “Taylor Made Freestyle” openly embraces artificial intelligence with features from the computer-generated voices of 2Pac and Snoop Dogg to convey alternate perspectives using lyrics that Drake wrote.
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After using the two legends’ viewpoints to press his adversary to drop a response, the 37-year-old references Taylor Swift‘s new album and TDE boss Anthony “Top Dawg” Tiffith with the bars: “But now we gotta wait a fucking week ’cause Taylor Swift is your new Top/ And if you ’bout to drop, she gotta approve/ This girl really ’bout to make you act like you not in a feud/ She tailor made your schedule with Ant, you out of the loop.”
Soon after the track went live, Akademiks revealed during a livestream that he received a text from the “Hotline Bling” hitmaker that reads: “Ak, you know I was trying to come off tour and relax. N-ggas done fucked up my whole feng shui. Now I gotta eat until this debate is done.”
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Listen to the whole song below:
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— Drizzy (@Drake) April 20, 2024
The Compton native also reportedly has a response ready to go, according to Joe Budden Podcast host Antwan “Ish” Marby, who also claims its viciousness is comparable 2Pac.
On an episode of the podcast that premiered earlier this week, he shared what his sources have told him about the yet-to-be-released clapback song.
The cut in question is apparently just as brutal as the late rapper’s notorious “Hit Em Up” joint, a song that opens with him addressing his rival at the time, The Notorious B.I.G, with: “That’s why I fucked your wife, you fat muthafucka.”
“Some people that have heard the Kendrick track, I heard that his energy is just something that’s going to be hard for Drake to match. They said he’s coming on some Pac ‘Hit Em Up’ energy,” Marby said.
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Future, Metro Boomin and Kendrick Lamar dropped “Like That” in late March, on which the California native devotes his entire guest verse to taking shots at Drizzy and J. Cole.
The beef has since escalated a great deal, with Rick Ross, The Weeknd and A$AP Rocky joining K.Dot’s side and Cole withdrawing from the beef after releasing a diss track of his own.
