Not Like Us: A timeline of Drake’s feud with Kendrick Lamar

Sign up to Roisin O’Connor’s free weekly newsletter Now Hear This for the inside track on all things music Get our Now Hear This email for free Get our Now Hear This email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. He then released his third album, 2013’s Nothing Was the Same, in which he appeared to take aim at Lamar on “The Language”, rapping: “F*** any n***a that’s talking that s*** just to get a reaction.” On the same track, he referred to himself as “the kid with the motormouth / I am the one you should worry about.” He open image in gallery Artwork for Kendrick Lamar’s 2012 album, ‘Good Kid, MAAD City’ On a recent episode of the What’s the Dirt YouTube show, in which host Matt delves into beefs between prominent hip-hop artists, it was suggested that Drake was being contemptuous of Lamar’s rapid-fire delivery, and felt that his own music had more substance. “Comparing these projects makes zero sense,” Matt said, referring to Lamar’s Grammy-winning album To Pimp a Butterfly and Drake’s If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late, both released in 2015. open image in gallery Artwork for Kendrick Lamar’s critically adored 2015 album ‘To Pimp a Butterfly’ “Drake’s project was great for club DJs, gym playlists, cruising in the car… whereas Kendrick’s album touched on real-world issues, was chanted during protests, and is looked at today as one of the greatest hip-hop albums of all time,” he said. It also resulted in Drake achieving his first ever UK No 1 album, as it also debuted at the top of the US Billboard 200. open image in gallery Drake dancing to Hotline Bling However, Drake couldn’t resist making a few digs around that time, rapping with The Game on his track “100” about the perception of him as a pop artist: “I would have all of your fans if I didn't go pop / And I stayed on some conscious sh**.” A year later, Lamar released his own fourth album, DAMN, and received considerably more critical praise than Drake had for Views. open image in gallery Kendrick Lamar dropped not one but two diss tracks in the space of a week, before Drake had even responded to the first “A lot of people asking me how I’m feeling… listen, the way I’m feeling is the same way I want you to walk out of here feeling tonight about your f***ing self,” Drake told his audience, footage shared to social media on 25 March shows.