Kendrick Lamar has escalated his feud with Drake by releasing a second diss track in a week – this time targeting the Canadian superstar’s inner circle.
The new track, which he released on Instagram on Friday, is titled “6:16 in LA” and parodies Drake’s “Timestamp Songs” such as “8 AM in Charlotte” from 2023 or “5 AM in Toronto” from 2015.
After the heartbreaking “Euphoria,” Kendrick escalates the controversy even further, repeatedly lashing out at Drake’s record label OVO Sound, which he runs with a large “crew” of signed artists, friends and colleagues.
“Did you ever think that OVO was working for me?” asks Lamar in his latest track, calling Drake a “fake bully” who “must be a horrible human being.”
“Everyone on your team is whispering that you deserve it,” he continues, adding that Drake “can’t ‘Toosie Slide’ (dancing) his way out of this.”
Lamar also suggests that the people Drake does business with are untrustworthy and that if the rapper was “smart,” he would realize that “twenty” of his “entourage” are trying to “rip him off.”
When Drake got into a feud with Meek Mill in 2015, he released two diss tracks, “Charged Up” and “Back to Back,” before Mill had a chance to respond.
In “6:16 LA,” Lamar references the historic controversy after using the same strategy when releasing his latest track so soon after “Euphoria.”
“‘Back To Back’, I like that record / I’ll come back to it for the album,” he raps.
Drake and Lamar have been involved in a simmering feud for many years.
In March, Lamar took aim at Drake and his rap rival J Cole with a new song, claiming that he does not represent the “big three” of the genre, but only “the big me.”
The song “Like That” appeared on the joint album by Future and Metro Boomin We don’t trust you.
Lamar responded directly to J Cole’s verse on “First Person Shooter” from Drake’s album 2023 For all dogs.
On this song, Cole rapped: “I love it when they fight the hardest, MC / Is it K-Dot? Is it Aubrey? Or me? / We the big three, like we started a league, but right now I feel like Muhammad Ali.”
Lamar is known by his nickname K-Dot, while Aubrey is Drake’s birth name.
