Drake Baited Kendrick Lamar into Writing an Entire Verse About A Daughter Who Isn't Real
What has transpired between Drake and Kendrick Lamar over the last two weeks will go down in history as one of the greatest rap battles of all time. After acting like a broken-up high school couple, Drake and Kendrick finally stopped subliminally dissing each other and put all their cards on the table for us fans to enjoy. This beef has been building up for over a decade, and all it took for it to reach its breaking point was Drake leaving Kendrick out of his "big 3" on his song "First Person Shooter" with J Cole. Five months later, Kendrick shot what I believe was the first "clear" shot at Drake in his verse on "Like That." Usually, when these guys diss each other, it's up to us, the listeners, to decide whether or not that verse was about the other rapper. However, Kendrick's verse on "Like That" made it very clear that he was taking shots at the one and only Aubrey Graham.
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Shortly afterwards Drake released dropped "Push Ups" where he basically makes fun of Kendrick for being a midget that wears a size 7 shoe and has to cough up 50% of his earnings to his label. Drake followed that up with "Taylor Made" where he used AI Tupac and AI Snoop Dogg to tell Kendrick to stop ducking smoke like a little bitch and clap back. Safe to say Kendrick did that and much more when he dropped "Euphoria" where he basically tells Drake that he hates everything about him from how he dresses, talks, and his entire way of life. Oh, and I almost forgot, this is where Kendrick reveals to the world that Drake didn't get his abs from being in the gym, he just got a BBL procedure.
Just a couple of days after dropping "Euphoria," Kendrick drops another diss track, "6:16 in LA," which is clearly a play on Drake's iconic time-stamped records. In my opinion, this was the weakest diss of them all, but it served more as a warning to Drake that he has moles in his camp who are relaying information to Kendrick. Remember that because it's very important and basically the whole reason I'm writing this blog.
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Drake responds by dropping "Family Matters," where he exposes Kendrick for being a fraud. Throughout this battle, Kendrick has talked down on Drake as if he's coming from this "moral high ground," as I like to call it. In "Family Matters," Drake explains that Kendrick isn't the person he portrays himself to be, alleging that he has beaten his fiancée and that his friend Dave Free might be the father to Kendrick's kid.
Now, this is when shit gets real.
Kendrick responds to this by dropping "Meet The Grahams," which, in my opinion, even as a Drake fan, is the hardest and most diabolical diss in this entire beef. Kendrick personally addresses everyone in Drake's family, from his mom, son, father, Drake, and an alleged 11-year-old daughter that Drake has been hiding from the world. In this diss, Kendrick tells Adonis (Drake's Son) that he wished his grandfather wore a condom, essentially saying he wishes the entire Graham family didn't exist.
Now, where Drake wins in this diss is that Drake and his team planted fake information in Kendrick's camp.
So while Kendrick thought he had a mole inside of OVO, it was really just Drake's team baiting Kendrick to see if he would jump on any story that he can get his hands on, and it worked. There is no 11-year-old daughter. Drake announces in the latest diss, "The Heart Part 6," that his team made the whole story up, and even thought about giving her a "name" and a "location," but decided not to because they knew Kendrick would just run with the story without even investigating it. And that's exactly what he did. Meaning that Kendrick's greatest piece of work in this beef is tainted by a verse that he wrote about someone who isn't even real. He took the bait, and now it's checkmate.