Drake‘s security guard was shot in a drive-by shooting outside of the entertainer’s home in Toronto, Canada in the early morning hours of Tuesday (May 7).
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Drake has removed his diss track ‘Taylor Made Freestyle‘ after Tupac’s estate threatened a lawsuit over AI-generated vocals.The ‘Headlines’ rapper was hit with a cease-and-desist letter (per Billboard) and was told by litigator Howard King that his diss track must be taken down in less than 24 hours. If not, Tupac’s estate would go ahead and “pursue all of its legal remedies” against him.The letter – penned by King – read: “The Estate is deeply dismayed and disappointed by your unauthorized use of Tupac’s voice and personality.
Not only is the record a flagrant violation of Tupac’s publicity and the estate’s legal rights, it is also a blatant abuse of the legacy of one of the greatest hip-hop artists of all time. The Estate would never have given its approval for this use.”It continued, taking issue with the rappers use of Tupac’s vocals to diss Kendrick Lamar: “The unauthorized, equally dismaying use of Tupac’s voice against Kendrick Lamar, a good friend to the Estate who has given nothing but respect to Tupac and his legacy publicly and privately, compounds the insult.”Now, ‘Taylor Made Freestyle’ has been taken down from all streaming platforms as well as all of Drake’s social media accounts following lawsuit threat from the estate of the late West Coast rapper.‘Taylor Made Freestyle’ was the latest in a string of shots back and forth between Drake and Lamar.The first verse on the track has been manipulated to sound like 2Pac, with lines including: “Kendrick, we need ya, the West Coast savior / Engraving your name in some hip-hop history / Fuck this Canadian light-skin, Dot / We need a no-debated West Coast victory, man”.The issue between the two artists began on the 2023 single ‘First Person Shooter’, when Drake
.Drake‘s security guard was shot in a drive-by shooting outside of the entertainer’s home in Toronto, Canada in the early morning hours of Tuesday (May 7).
WWE Hall Of Famer Shawn Michaels has invited Kendrick Lamar and Drake to “settle” their feud on WWE: NXT.Lamar and Drake have been engaged in an ongoing rap battle since March this year. On the diss track ‘Not Like Us’, the former mentioned Michaels’ famous finishing move, rapping: “Sweet Chin Music and I won’t pass the aux.” The lyric caught the attention of the wrestling superstar, with the Senior Vice President of Talent Development Creative at WWE saying that the two rappers can battle it out on the brand he oversees, NXT.“A little Sweet Chin Music goes a long way,” he tweeted.
CBC and Toronto’s CityNews, who each revealed that police and paramedics were called to the scene and a man had to be taken to hospital with serious injuries.According to a new update by Toronto Police on X, the incident took place around 2:10am ET, near the corner of Bayview and Lawrence Avenues.
Vince Staples has weighed in on the ongoing rap feud between Kendrick Lamar and Drake – see what he had to say below.On Saturday (May 4), Staples sat down with Long Beach Mayor Rex Richard for a panel discussion to celebrate Youth Day. During the chat, Staples was asked by a fan in attendance what he thought about Lamar and Drake going at one another.Staples, who has been an advocate for raising up Black culture, spoke about several major changes happening in the music industry that affect the Black community, signalling that more people should be paying attention to that instead of a rap beef.To begin his response, Staples noted that he has been signed to Universal Music Group for 13 years, first signing with them at the age of 17.
“Meet the Grahams,” a direct reference to Drake’s real name, Aubrey Graham. In the song, Lamar calls Drake a “narcissist” and a “misogynist,” and also accuses him of secretly fathering a daughter.
Drake has dropped a new diss track aimed at Kendrick Lamar titled ‘The Heart Part 6’.Today (May 6), Drake released ‘The Heart Part 6’, his fourth track in the ongoing rap feud between him and Kendrick Lamar. The track is a reference to Kendrick’s numerous ‘The Heart’ songs, and is also a response to Kendrick Lamar’s previous play on ‘6:16 in LA’.On ‘The Heart Part 6’, Drake responds directly to Lamar’s claims on ‘Meet The Grahams’ and ‘Not Like Us’ that he is hiding an 11-year-old daughter.
Steven J. Horowitz Senior Music Writer It’s been a very busy weekend in the ongoing rap beef between Drake and Kendrick Lamar, and the latest installment came on Sunday evening (May 5) with the release of “The Heart Part 6.” Drake adds to Lamar’s ongoing, five-part “The Heart” series that he began in 2010 with his own entry, derailing his foe’s bigger vision.
Kendrick Lamar and Drake‘s feud is escalating rapidly.
Kendrick Lamar has dropped his fourth Drake diss track, ‘Not Like Us’, in the latest of the pair’s rapid-fire exchanges in their reignited feud.Lamar’s third Drake diss in 36 hours finds him hitting out at the Canadian rapper for his supposed preference for younger women, even to the point where he calls him a paedophile.“Say Drake, I hear you like ’em young/ You better not ever go to cell block one/ To any bitch that talk to him and layin’ love/ Just make sure you hide your little sister from ’em,” Lamar raps.Lamar later doubles down, rapping: “Certified lover boy, certified paedophiles… Why he trollin’ like a bitch? Ain’t you tired?/ Tryna strike a cord and it’s probably A-Minor.”Elsewhere in the track, Lamar accuses Drake of having to “run to Atlanta when you need a few dollars”, going on to argue that “you not a colleague, you a fuckin/colonizer”. Check it out below:It’s the latest exchange in the pair’s feud since Lamar dropped his verse on Future and Metro Boomin’s ‘Like That‘ back in March.
As Drake and Kendrick Lamar continue to exchange diss tracks at an impressive rate, you might be wondering what exactly started this heated feud.
once rapped that Taylor Swift was the only artist he's ever “rated” enough to push back an album release, now he's using her name to diss .ICYMI: Drake, Lamar, and J.Cole are currently embroiled in a weeks-long , which only as Drake and Lamar each dropped back-to-back diss tracks on May 3. But with Lamar's release of “6:16 in LA,” some fans are joking that the rappers are actually fighting over who is closer friends with Taylor Swift.
Drake and Kendrick Lamar have fired brand new diss tracks in the latest series of developments in their feud.Yesterday (May 3), Kendrick dropped his latest diss track against Drake ‘6:16 in LA‘, but now, the pair have traded blows with new diss tracks within an hour of each other, beginning with Drake’s ‘Family Matters’.On the track, Drake sent more shots towards Lamar and his wife Whitney Alford, rapping: “You the black messiah wifing up a mixed queen / And hit vanilla cream to help out with your self-esteem / On some Bobby shit I wanna know what Whitney need / All that puppy love was over in your late teens”.Along with dissing Lamar, Drake took aim at The Weeknd (“a drugged out little punk sissy from the northside“), A$AP Rocky (“Gassed cause you hit my BM first n***a do the math who I was hitting then“) and Rick Ross (“What the fuck I heard Rick drop n***a / Talking something ’bout a nose job n***a“).Drake finally ended his track with a bombshell accusation against Lamar: “They hired a crisis management team to clean up the fact that you beat up your queen/The picture you painted ain’t what it seems”An hour later, Lamar quickly fired back with his own track ‘Meet The Grahams’, which saw the Compton musician address every family member of Drake (real name Aubrey Graham).He began his track by speaking to Drake’s son Adonis: “Dear Adonis, I’m sorry that that man is your father, let me be honest / It takes a man to be a man, your dad is not responsive / I look at him and wish your grandpa woulda wore a condom / I’m sorry that you gotta grow up and then stand behind him”.To Drake’s father Dennis, Lamar said: “You raised a horrible fuckin’ person/The nerve of you, Dennis,” in which he then spoke to Drake’s mother Sandra,
Steven J. Horowitz Senior Music Writer The war of words wages on between Drake and Kendrick Lamar, and this time it’s personal.
Kendrick Lamar has released ‘6:16 in LA’, another brutal diss track directed towards Drake.The ‘Humble’ rapper wasted no time in creating a follow-up to his recent release ‘Euphoria‘ – a six-minute-long diss track that sees Lamar call the ‘Hotline Bling’ a “scam artist”, “master manipulator” and question his abilities as a father.Lamar took to his Instagram today (May 3) – three days after the release of ‘Euphoria’ – to share a new track – ‘6:16 in LA’.
Kendrick Lamar has included a sample of a reversed Richard Pryor line from ‘The Wiz’ on his new Drake diss track ‘Euphoria‘.The six-minute-long diss track sees Lamar call the ‘Hotline Bling’ a “scam artist”, “master manipulator” and question his abilities as a father. It has been revealed that the jumbled audio in the intro of the song samples dialogue from the 1978 film The Wiz.Following its release yesterday (April 30), fans clipped the short sample and played the line backwards to find the first line: “eurt si em tuoba yas yeht gnihtyrevE” happens to be a line from the iconic film in which Richard Pryor – who portrayed The Wiz – says: “Everything they say about me is true.”the reversed audio at the beginning of euphoria played backwards pic.twitter.com/9aNxxTxs57— Dissect Podcast (@dissectpodcast) April 30, 2024Pryor’s line in the film is taken from a scene in which his character is exposed as Herman Smith, a washed-up politician from Atlantic City.
Drake has replied to Kendrick Lamar‘s brutal ‘Euphoria’ diss track on his Instagram stories.Last night, Lamar released the six-minute diss track against the rapper, calling him a “master manipulator” and questioning his abilities as a father amongst other accusations. It is the latest response in a feud ignited by Lamar, who hit out against Drake and J.
Kendrick Lamar has hit back at Drake with a six-minute-long diss track, Euphoria’, in which he calls him a “master manipulator” and also questions his abilities as a father.Lamar re-ignited his feud with Drake last month on a song with Future and Metro Boomin‘s new track ‘Like That’, on which he also hit out at J. Cole.
Suge Knight has commented on Drake using A.I. to get Tupac and Snoop Dogg to feature on his ‘Taylor Made Freestyle’ diss track.Last weekend, Drake uploaded ‘Taylor Made Freestyle’ online, marking the second time the Canadian has thrown jabs at Kendrick Lamar.
Drake and Kendrick Lamar feud by sharing his own parody diss track.The British-Zimbabwe social media star is known for his viral musical skits (as either himself or as “posh driller” Unknown P) that provide satirical commentary on pop culture and public affairs. Now, he has waded in on the current conflict between Drake and Lamar and released what he thinks the latter’s diss track would sound like.The 31-year-old raps in a squeaky voice: “And your last track was average / Fell off like Cinderella’s shoe on the way to the carriage / Off with his head like the Queen said to Alice / Drake only go for girls under 21, Yo! I’m a savage.”A post shared by Munya Chawawa (@munyachawawa)Beneath the post, rapper Professor Green commented: “Money on this being the best diss in the whole beef”.
Steven J. Horowitz Senior Music Writer After Tupac Shakur’s estate threatened to sue him for using the late rapper’s AI vocals on his song “Taylor Made Freestyle,” Drake has removed the track from his social media profiles. Drake initially posted the song, a diss track towards Kendrick Lamar, on April 19, featuring computer-generated verses from the late Shakur and Snoop Dogg.