‘The Heart, Part 6’ – the latest track in the Drake and Kendrick Lamar feud – has now surpassed 1million dislikes on YouTube.
The Canadian has been in a rap battle with Lamar since March when the latter called him out on ‘Like That’ from Metro Boomin and Future’s debut joint album ‘We Don’t Trust You’. The verse caused the two rappers to go back and forth on scathing diss tracks for the last month.
On May 5, Drake uploaded the latest song in the saga ‘The Heart, Part 6’ to YouTube. In the song, he denied all of the allegations made by Lamar including him having a hidden daughter and being a sexual predator.
The OVO Founder also claimed that he fed false information to the Compton rapper, rapping: “We plotted for a week and we fed you the information / A daughter that’s 11 years old, I bet he takes it.
He continued: “You gotta learn to fact check things and be less impatient / Your fans are rejoicing thinkin’ this is my expiration / Even the picture you used, the jokes and the medication / The Maybach glove and the drug he uses for less inflation / Master manipulator, you bid on the speculation.”
According to XXL, the clip has over 1million dislikes – the most out of any song in his feud with Lamar. Beneath The Hip-Hop Wolf‘s blog post, some fans believed this was due to a “Drake hate train”.
One user wrote: “The hate train is crazy. He needs to disappear for a minute. Music will be so trash that folks will start wanting his music. Kendrick [is] not consistent enough. So enjoy now. I remember Jay-Z actually going through the same thing as far as people turning on him.”
After hearing Lamar mock him on ‘Like That’, Drake fired back with two tracks ‘Push Ups’ and ‘Taylor Made Freestyle‘. On the latter, he included A.I-generated verses from Snoop Dogg and Tupac, causing Tupac’s estate to threaten legal action. The 37-year-old subsequently removed the diss track from streaming. Lamar then responded with the brutal six-minute-long comeback ‘Euphoria‘.
On May 3, Lamar followed up with ‘6:16 in LA’. Hours later, Drake released ‘Family Matters’, and Lamar responded 20 minutes later with ‘Meet The Grahams’. The following day, the Pulitzer Prize winner dropped ‘Not Like Us’ – which is now the most streamed rap song on Spotify and the highest-charting song from the feud, currently sitting at Number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Questlove condemned the conflict, saying: “This was a wrestling match-level mudslinging and takedown by any means necessary – women [and] children [and] actual facts) be damned. Same audience wanting blood will soon put up ‘RIP’ posts like they weren’t part of the problem. Hip-hop is truly dead.”
Vince Staples has echoed the same sentiment, believing rap “deserves better”. “We’ve been saying for decades that we want people to respect Black music and Black art and Black people,” he reasoned. “I think for that to happen, we gotta respect ourselves and they don’t make it easy for us, but we gotta try to work a little bit harder at that.”
In other news, one of Drake’s bodyguards has been shot outside of Drake’s Toronto residence. Later, a man was arrested for breaking into Drake’s mansion a day after the shooting.
Elsewhere, Drake and Lamar’s label Universal Music Group said they’re not going to step in and stop the feud.