The ongoing feud between rappers Drake and Kendrick Lamar has escalated further as the “Hotline Bling” singer released a new diss track titled “The Heart Part 6” on Sunday night (May 5).
The two have been hurling insults and accusations at each other all week, with Lamar, 36, calling Drake, 37, a “certified pedophile” in his third diss track, “Not Like Us,” released on Saturday (May 4).
Lamar made a series of claims accusing Drake of harassing underage women and urging men to hide their younger sisters from the Canadian rapper.
“Say, Drake, I heard you like ’em young,” Lamar began. “You better never go to cell block one.”
Lamar continued to make fun of the title of Drake’s studio album Certified Loverboy when he mocked “Certified Loverboy? Certified pedophiles.”
The artwork for “Not Like Us” features an aerial view of Drake’s mansion with sex offenders pictured above it. There is no evidence to support the allegations made against Drake, but it is typical for rappers to make false claims in diss tracks to humiliate or insult their opponents.
Drake hit back at Lamar’s allegations in his new track “The Heart Part 6,” a five-minute response that features Aretha Frankin’s vocals in several interludes.
Responding to Lamar’s claim that he is a “certified pedophile,” Drake said the rapper was spreading false information by “misleading shit” and defended himself by saying he was “too famous” to get away with such accusations.
“I’ve never been with minors but now I understand why you try so hard / Just to be clear: I’m disgusted, I’m too respected / If I was f*cking young girls, I would’ve been arrested, I promise / I’m way too famous for the shit you just suggested,” Drake rapped.
He continued: “Drake is a name you will not see on any sex offender list.”
“That Epstein angle was the shit I expected / TikTok videos you collected and dissected / Instead of being on some dissdirect shit / You’d rather grab your damn pen and misdirect that shit,” he said, referring to disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
“That’s why you’re so obsessed with this pedophile rap, it’s so excessive.”
Drake then took a swipe at Lamar’s personal life, claiming that Lamar’s fiancée Whitney Alford was being stalked by record label executive Dave Free.
For the artwork for “The Heart Part 6,” Drake used a screenshot of an Instagram comment by 37-year-old Free under a photo shared by Alford showing her smiling with her two children, whom she has with Lamar.
Free commented on the photo with two heart emojis and Drake took a screenshot of the comment to mock Lamar.
“And why doesn’t Whitney deny all the allegations? / Why is she following Dave Free and not Mr Morale?” said Drake (Mr Morale is a name Lamar used in his 2022 album. Mr. Morale and The Big Steppers).
“You haven’t seen the kids in six months, the distance is unbelievable / Dave leaves heart emojis under the child’s pictures.”
This comes after Drake released the three-part “Family Matters” on Saturday (May 4), in which he accused Lamar of hypocrisy in his pro-black activism. In the song, he also accuses him of domestic violence and of “begging” the estate of Tupac to sue Drake for using AI versions of the late rapper in a diss track.
Lamar hit back within minutes, releasing his third diss track this week, “Meet The Grahams,” in which he accused the rapper of having a secret daughter and suffering from a series of gambling, alcohol, drug and sex addictions.
The two rappers initially began their relationship as friends after the Canadian artist invited Lamar to join his Club Paradise headlining tour in 2011. However, over the years, the relationship became more hostile. Find out how the feud started in The Independent‘s timeline here.
The Independent has reached out to representatives for Lamar and Drake for comment.
