All of the Diss Tracks Kendrick Lamar and Drake Have Exchanged in 2024

What is rap music without beef? Kendrick Lamar and Drake have taken the internet by storm with their heated exchanges, which show no signs of slowing down.

Kendrick’s ‘Like That’ Sparked The Flame

Lamar’s featured verse on Future and Metro Boomin’s song, Like That, reignited his and Drake’s feud on March 26 2024, and kickstarted their current diss record battle.

The West Coast rapper’s Like That verse was in response to Drake and J. Cole’s First Person Shooter. In the 2023 collaboration, the She Knows rapper stated: “…When they argue the hardest MC/ Is it K-Dot? Is it Aubrey? Or me?/ We the big three…I feel like Muhammad Ali.”

Drake, who is now Lamar’s main target, also threw shade, insiniating that the only rappers who were deserving of the “Greatest of All Time” title right now was him and Cole. Needless to say, that ruffled Lamar’s feathers.

On Like That he clapped back, “Muthaf**k the big three, n-gga, it’s just big me/ N-gga, bum, what? I’m really like that…”

Drake Fires Back

On April 19, Drake released his song, Pushups a diss track about Lamar where he goes after his height and talent.

“How the f— you big steppin’ with a size seven men’s on/ Your last one bricked, you really not on s— / They make excuses for you ’cause they hate to see me lit/ Pull your contract ’cause we gotta see the split/ Ain’t no way you doin’ splits b—- your pants might rip,” Mr. OVO slams.

The Degrassi Next Generation alum dropped the diss track Taylor-Made Freestyle on the same day as Pushups. In the record, the Canadian artist claimed that Lamar was prolonging his response because the Swimming Pools rhymer didn’t want to interfere with Taylor Swift’s business. Swift dropped her eleventh studio album The Tortured Poets Department the same day Drake released his double-diss tracks against Lamar.

“She Taylor-Made your schedule with Ant, you out of the loop / Hate all you corporate industry puppets, I’m not in the mood,” Drake claimed. Drake’s lyrics seemingly either mentioned Anthony “Top Dawg” Tiffith, or Lamar’s manager Anthony Saleh, implying that Lamar was structuring his diss records around Swift’s schedule.

The song, which included A.I. vocals from Snoop Dogg, was quickly removed due to it also having A.I.-generated vocals from the late rapper Tupac.

Here Come’s The Top Dawg

The Humble rapper finally hits back with Euphoria on April 30, criticizing Drake for several things like appropriating black urban culture, how he “sneak disses,” and the lingo he uses.

Kendrick Claps Back Again

Lamar followed-up Euphoria with 6:16 in LA on May 3, the title mocking the numerous Drake song titles that have the time and the location. Contributing to 6:16 in LA‘s production was Jack Antonoff, a collaborator of Swift’s, most likely not a coincidence since Drake name-dropped Swift in his Taylor Made Freestyle.  

The track alleges that Drake’s employees secretly dislike the rapper and believe Lamar is right for attacking the Best I Ever Had spitter. Lamar even insinuated that he had some people in Drake’s OVO camp on his payroll.

“Have you ever thought OVO is working for me? Fake bully/I hate bullies / You must be a terrible person/Everyone inside your team whispering that you deserve it,” Lamar ranted.

On that Friday night, Drake launched another attack on Lamar through his single Family Matters, in which he alleged that Lamar cheated on his fiancee Whitney Alford with another woman.

“You the Black messiah wifing up a mixed queen/ And hit vanilla cream to help out with your self-esteem/ On some Bobby sh–, I wanna know what Whitney need,” Drake claimed.

Lamar didn’t hold back when he released Meet the Grahams on May 3. A nearly 8-minute track where he rapped different messages to Drake’s family members: his mom, Sandra Graham, dad, Dennis Graham, and six-year-old son, Adonis.

Lamar made a few claims in the song, like Drake hiding an 11-year-old daughter, using Ozempic, and hiring escorts.

Triple Decker Diss

On May 4, Lamar released Not Like Us, his most scathing diss of Drake yet. He accuses Drake of grooming minors and using the famous Atlanta rappers he’s collaborated with, like Lil’ Baby, Future, and 21 Savage, to boost his career.

“You run to Atlanta when you need a few dollars/ You not a colleague, you a f**kin’ colonizer/ The family matter, and the truth of the matter/ It was God’s Plan to show you’re a liar,” Lamar raged.

Drake Digs In

The God’s Plan rapper addresses Lamar’s claims in his song The Heart Part 6, which he dropped Sunday. Drake outright denied allegations of pedophilia that Lamar made on his songs Meet the Grahams and Not Like Us.

“Speaking of anything with a child, let’s get to that now/ This Epstein angle was the shit I expected/ TikTok videos you collected and dissected/ Instead of being on some dis-direct s–t/ You rather f—ing grab your pen and misdirect s–t,” he protested.

Drake also revealed that he was the one who spread the rumor about him having a secret 11-year-old daughter. He did it because he wanted to fool Lamar because he’d knew that he’d take the bait.

“We plotted for a week and then we fed you the information/ A daughter that’s eleven years old, I bet he takes it/ We thought about givin’ a fake name or a destination,” the actor-turned-rapper admitted.

Additionally, Drake called out Lamar for lying on his name in his diss records.

“You would be a worthy competitor if I was really a predator and you weren’t f—–g lying to every blog or an editor but, it is what it is,” Drake shadily spat.

Lamar hasn’t countered The Heart Part 6 with another song taking a shady swipe at Drake, but best believe it’s on the way.