The feud between Kendrick Lamar and Drake took a downright nasty turn on Saturday. Kendrick accused Drake of being a pedophile and keeping sex offenders on his OVO payroll on the track “Not Like Us.”
Rumors have swirled that Drake has had a knack for younger women for years; Kendrick just put the accusations on wax. In a cringey response titled “The Heart Part 6" (a play on Kendrick’s “The Heart Part 5"), Drake defends himself by saying he expected Kendrick to call him a child predator.
Sir, what?
“This Epstein angle was the sh*t I expected/TikTok videos you collected and dissected,” Drake rapped. Sadly, it gets worse from there. “Just for clarity, I feel disgusted, I’m too respected/”If I was f**king young girls, I promise I’d have been arrested/I’m way too famous for this sh*t you just suggested.”
Drake essentially stated that if he was engaging in nefarious activity, his celebrity status would have ensured his downfall by now—as if Hollywood hasn’t worked to protect the most notorious predators since its inception.
He went on to name one particular actress who he allegedly tried to be inappropriate with—though Kendrick never did. “Only f**kin’ with Whitneys, not Millie Bobby Browns/I’d never look twice at no teenager/I’m a f**king hitmaker, dog, not a peacemaker.”
The “For All The Dogs” emcee’s latest reply comes across as a confession more than a diss track. In “The Heart Part 6,” Drizzy also said that whoever gave Kendrick dirt on him was a clown. Then Drake stated that his team purposely fed misinformation to the Compton native—which would make Drake the clown?
“We finessed you into telling a story that doesn’t even exist,” Drake said on the track, referring to Kendrick’s claims that he’s hiding an 11-year-old daughter. However, blogs wrote about Drake’s alleged second secret child years ago.
Perhaps most sadly, Drake attempted to shame Kendrick for his song “Mother I Sober.” The song appeared on Kendrick’s fifth album, “Mr. Morale and The Big Steppers,” which was released in 2022. Drake states on “The Heart Part 6,” that is the song where Kendrick says he “got molested.”
However, if Drake listened to the track he would have realized that Kendrick was discussing his mother being sexually assaulted and its traumatic aftermath. It’s clear that Drake has lost this battle and is making incendiary claims for the hell of it.
We don’t need Drake to wave a white flag—we just need him to STFU.