Kendrick Lamar responds to Drake with diss track Euphoria in escalating feud – Latest Chapter In Their Beef

Kendrick Lamar: Euphoria is the latest in the hip-hop heavyweights’ fight via songs, which has now drawn in some of the biggest names in rap.

Kendrick Lamar Euphoria Drake Diss Track

Kendrick Lamar just reminded us there’s no substitute for real emotion in rap beef.

This morning, the LA rapper released his response in the ongoing feud between himself and Drake, by dropping a six-minute diatribe aimed at Drizzy as a rap artist and, more importantly, as an assassination of his character on a human level.

“Euphoria” not only references Drake’s involvement with the MAX hit drama of the same name but also expresses the level of elation Lamar likely feels in finally getting these things off his chest. Lamar’s song is the latest plot point in the timeline of hostility between the two rap titans considered to be part of hip-hop millennial Mount Rushmore. This is a timeline that goes back over a decade and was recently reignited in the beginning of 2024 with a storm of messy diss tracks — both authentic and artificial.

Kendrick Lamar slammed Drake as “calculated” and a “scam artist,” questioning his authenticity as a rapper and accusing him of being a “pathetic master manipulator.”

He took multiple shots at Drake’s biracial identity, asking: “How many more Black features ’til you finally feel that you Black enough?” and questioning whether Drake should say the n-word in his raps.

Kendrick Lamar slammed Drake as a father, rapping: “I got a son to raise, but I can see you don’t know nothin’ ’bout that,” and referenced Drake’s infamous beef with rapper Pusha T in which he controversially revealed the identity of Drake’s son, Adonis, in a diss track.

Kendrick Lamar echoed Rick Ross’ earlier Drake diss in which Ross accused Drake of getting a nose job, a procedure on his abs and other cosmetic surgeries, with Lamar rapping: “Didn’t tell ’em where you get your abs from.”

Elsewhere, he raps “how many more Black features ‘til you finally feel that you’re Black enough?” and accuses Drake – who is the most-streamed male artist of all time on Spotify – of selling out by merely making “music that pacify ‘em”.

The pair’s feud dates back as early as 2013, when Kendrick Lamar – who had just broken out at the time – appeared on the Big Sean track Control to assert his dominance over his fellow rappers. Later that year, he took aim at Drake, referring to him as a “sensitive rapper” in a performance at the BET awards.

In March this year, the feud ignited again when Kendrick Lamar made a guest appearance on Future and Metro Boomin’s Billboard-topping hit Like That.

Kendrick Lamar verse responds to a 2023 song called First Person Shooter by Drake and J Cole where the two artists called themselves, along with Lamar, the “big three” of hip-hop.

“Motherfuck the big three,” Kendrick Lamar raps on Like That. “It’s just big me.”

In April, Drake released the first of two diss tracks. Titled Push Ups, the song mocks Lamar’s shorter stature as well as his mainstream collaborations with Maroon 5 and Taylor Swift.

I hate the way that you walk, the way that you talk
I hate the way that you dress
I hate the way that you sneak diss
If I catch a flight it’s gonna be direct
We hate the b****** you f*** because they confuse themselves for real women
Notice I say, “We”
It’s not just me; I’m what the culture feeling

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