Judging from Kendrick Lamar’s new verse dissing Drake and J. Cole, it’s safe to say the Compton, California, emcee is not feeling particularly harmonious at the moment.
Though K. Dot and Cole have been friendly over the years and even had plans to release a joint album at one point, it’s more than apparent that the decade-plus-long cold war between Kenny and Drake is still a thing.
On Friday, March 22, Future and Metro Boomin dropped their collaborative album, We Don’t Trust You, and the Kendrick Lamar-featured song “Like That” immediately caught the attention of the internet with Lamar very clearly responding to Drake and J. Cole’s recent number one hit “First Person Shooter.”
“Yeah, get up with me F— sneak dissin’, first-person shooter
I hope they came with three switches
Think I won’t drop the location? I still got PTSD
Muthafuck the big three, n—-, it’s just big me.”
On “First Person Shooter,” Cole name-checked Lamar when rapping about the current kings of rap with the line “Love when they argue the hardest MC/ Is it K-Dot? Is it Aubrey? Or me?/ We the big three like we started a league,” but the consensus is the Dreamville boss caught a stray because of his proximity to Drake.
During Drizzy’s verse in the song, he appeared to leave K. Dot out of the equation when he rapped the line “Who the G.O.A.T.? Who you b—– really rooting for?/ Like a kid that act bad from January to November, n—-, it’s just you and Cole.”
Themselves being one-time collaborators, the war of words between Drake and Kendrick goes back more than a decade when many, including Kendrick, thought Drake’s line “I don’t know why they be lying, but your s— is not that inspiring” on his 2013 song “The Language” was a thinly veiled shot at Kendrick.
Lamar made no efforts to beat around the bush when addressing Drake during the TDE cypher on the BET Hip-Hop Awards that same year when he rapped, “Yeah, and nothing been the same since they dropped ‘Control’/ and tucked a sensitive rapper back in his pajama clothes.”
We Don’t Trust You, which also features appearances from Playboi Carti, Rick Ross, Travis Scott, and The Weeknd, is available to stream now on all digital platforms.
