Drake left a Kendrick Lamar breadcrumb in his “100 Gigs” project.
In a two-minute video, located at MVI_7806.MP4 in the 2.0 NWTS_1 folder, he, OVO 40 and OVO Hush listen to a beat produced by 40 and Omen that was intended for Drake and an unnamed guest appearance. As 40 talks about how the beat is constructed, Drake nods in agreement and says, “I know he’s gonna rock that with his current situation.” 40 then responded, “When he told me about Kendrick, it just made so much sense. Oh, how awesome! So good.”
The Toronto rapper ultimately didn’t use the beat and the collaboration never came to fruition. However, the beat found a home and ended up in the hands of Queens rapper Action Bronson for his song “Actin Crazy” from his 2015 album. Mr Wonderful.
Drake recorded his third solo album, Nothing was as beforebetween 2012 and 2013, and released it on September 24, 2013. This is relevant information because Kendrick’s “Control” verse, in which he mentions several rappers by name, including Drake, was released in August 2013.
Drake spoke about this verse twice: once in a Billboard Cover story (August 2013) and a meeting with Elliott Wilson during 2013. “I didn’t really have anything to say about it. It just sounded like an ambitious idea to me,” he said Billboard at the time. “That’s all. I know for a fact (Lamar) is not killing me, on any platform. So when that day comes, I guess we can revisit the topic.” About a month later, in September, he downplayed Lamar’s verse, telling Wilson, “That (‘Control’) verse was a moment that needed to be talked about. But are you listening to it now?”
Dot responded to these quotes during TDE’s BET Cypher, which aired in October 2013. In it, he rapped, “Yeah, and nothing’s been the same since they dropped ‘Control’ and put a sensitive rapper back in his pajama clothes.”
While Kendrick has remained quiet since the release of the “Not Like Us” video, Drake has hinted at a possible another round with the Compton rapper in the stories of his finsta Instagram account @plottttwistttttt.
