It’s been months sinceKendrick Lamarignited a firestorm by taking aim at Drake and J. Colewith his verse on Future and Metro Boomin’s“Like That” in the spring of 2024. The feud saw the rappers sling vitriol in the form of several diss tracks —with Cole momentarily joining the mix with “7 …
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SZA knows how to make an entrance. She had the world fiending so hard for her new Lana — first she announced the album drop for Friday at midnight, then kept everyone chewing our fingernails while she took an extra 15 hours to give it the right finishing touches. But …
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Spotify has responded to allegations that it helped prop up Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” after the streaming service got pulled into Drake’s legal squabble with Universal Music Group. In November, Drake accused UMG — the major label that both he and Lamar are signed to — of surreptitiously bolstering …
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Drake awarded $10,000 to a fan who won a lookalike competition thrown in his honor. Organized by Casuals Cakery, the contest was held on Saturday in the rapper’s hometown of Toronto. Prior to the event, Drake apparently got word of the competition taking place and hit up the bakery to …
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This year, J. Cole gave rap fans the opportunity to wade into nostalgia. His new podcast series, Inevitable, recollects the first chapter of his career, and he’s spent the past few weeks re-releasing his early mixtapes to DSPs. Later this month, he’ll take the stage at Madison Square Garden for …
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Drake’s taken the Kendrick Lamar beef from the court of public opinion to actual court. This week, Drake’s attorneys made a pair of legal filings that state their intent to find out if Universal Music Group, the parent company of his label Republic Records, sought to artificially boost the acclaim …
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Drake is doubling down in his ongoing legal war against his own label and Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us,” filing a new legal action in Texas that alleges Universal Music Group knowingly allowed Lamar to call him a “certified pedophile” as it sought to “drive consumer hysteria and, of course, …
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As the rap world celebrated the surprise release of his nemesis Kendrick Lamar‘s new album GNX, Drake went on popular streamer XQC‘s livestream Sunday night, where he appeared mostly unbothered despite being the subject of Kendrick’s Grammy-nominated diss track “Not Like Us.” Drake, being Drake, of course, still got off …
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Drake has accused Universal Music Group (UMG) of conspiring to inflate Kendrick Lamar‘s diss track about the rapper, “Not Like Us,” upon its release. In the Monday filing, Drake’s company Frozen Moments accused UMG of having a “scheme” with bots and payola to boost the song while the two artists …
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In the heat of their battle this summer, Drake sarcastically rapped, “Kendrick just opened his mouth, someone go hand him a Grammy right now” on the track “Family Matters.” Well, the Recording Academy decided to actually put Kendrick in the running for five Grammys for his magnum opus of a …
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