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Drake is moving on from his rap beef with Kendrick.
He released a new album with Partynextdoor and references his “rap beef” with Kendrick Lamar on the song “Gimme a Hug.”
It marks Drake’s first new music since Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime show, where he performed the Drake diss “Not Like Us,” to an audience of 127 million.
Drake starts the song with “Drake elimination, fake intimidation,” which some have interpreted as a response to Kanye West, who, on a podcast last year spoke about wanting to see the “elimination” of Drake at the top of the music industry.
Later in the song, Drake raps, “Funny how a lot of ppl are waiting on the boy’s obituary / ‘Cause if I die, it’s these ppl that become the sole beneficiary... he said...” People are preying on Drake’s downfall ..wonders how they’d fill his shoes.
Ultimately, the song signals Drake’s desire to move on from his rap beef with Lamar, which really kicked off in March 2024 with Lamar’s verse on Metro Boomin and Future’s “Like That” and reached a climax with last week’s Super Bowl halftime show.
