It’s been a very busy weekend in the ongoing rap beef between Drake and Kendrick Lamar, and the latest installment came on Sunday evening (May 5) with the release of “The Heart Part 6.”
Drake adds to Lamar’s ongoing, five-part “The Heart” series that he began in 2010 with his own entry, derailing his foe’s bigger vision. On the track, the Toronto rapper mainly denies Lamar’s claims on previous diss songs that he pursued underage women, a claim that has long plagued the rapper and recently resurfaced with the beef.
“I never been with no one underage, but now I understand why this the angle that you really mess with,” he raps. “Just for clarity, I feel disgusted / I’m too respected / If I was fuckin’ young girls, I promise I done been arrested / I’m way too famous for the shit you just suggested, but that’s not the lesson / Clearly there’s a deeper message / Deep cuts that never healed and now they got infected.”
Drake then refers to Lamar’s fiancee Whitney Alford, and name-drops Millie Bobby Brown as he was once texting with the actress when she was 14 years old. “I’m your baby momma’s screensaver / Only fuckin’ with Whitneys, not Millie Bobby Browns / I’d never look twice at no teenager / I’m a fuckin’ hitmaker dog, not a peacemaker.”
By the sounds of it, it seems like Drake is tiring of this red-hot beef. “I don’t wanna diss you anymore, this really got me second-guessing,” he raps. In the spoken-word outro, he says, “I’m not gonna lie, this shit was some good exercise. It’s good to get out, get the pen working.”
Among the many claims in the song, he suggests that he “finessed” Lamar by having someone on his team tell him that he has a secret daughter, something that Lamar raps about on “Meet the Grahams” that dropped on Friday night. He also infers that there’s distance between Lamar and Alford, and reinforces a previous claim that Lamar’s longtime creative partner Dave Free is the father of one of his children.
Over the past few days, this months-long spat has hit full throttle. On Friday morning, Lamar released “6:16 in LA,” named in a similar fashion to many of Drake’s tracks. Drake followed later that night with “Family Matters,” and Lamar very shortly after dropped “Meet the Grahams” that featured verses directed towards various members of Drake’s family. Then, on Saturday, Lamar put out yet another diss entitled “Not Like Us,” which doubled down on allegations of Drake’s pedophilia.
