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Your favorite rappers are beefing, and it's pretty hard to keep up.
In the same year, Drake seemingly took shots at Kendrick on "The Language" from his third studio album, Nothing Was the Same.
While J. Cole's lyricism might've been a nod to a friendly rivalry, Drake and Kendrick's beef had been sizzling on the skillet for years.
"Taylor Made Freestyle" included AI voices of Snoop Dogg and Tupac and accused Kendrick of delaying his rebuttal because of Taylor Swift's Tortured Poets Department.
For context, Taylor and Kendrick are friends and have collaborated in the past on the remix of "Bad Blood" from her fifth album, which was also re-recorded for 1989 (Taylor's Version).
Drake removed the song after Tupac's estate threatened to sue.
Kendrick's claims were evident in the lyrics, "100 niggas that you got on salary / and 20 of them want you as a casualty / and one of them is actually / is next to you / and two of them is practically tied to your lifestyle."
On the same track, Drake disses The Weeknd, Metro Boomin, Future, Rick Ross, and A$AP Rocky — all artists he's worked with in the past who now have bad blood with him.
There are plenty of lyrical breakdowns of each track, amateur dissertations on the double, triple, and quadruple entendre, and a handful of additional pieces in this chess match that could explain where it all went south.
I honestly believe J. Cole had the right idea of escaping the madness while he was ahead. You played yourself if you thought I was going to take a side.