The “great war” in the rap world between Kendrick Lamar on one side and Drake on the other seems to have come to an end with the overwhelming victory belonging to Kendrick Lamar. The rap songs that Kendrick Lamar wrote for Drake are not only rated higher in terms of “facts” (facts satirizing the opponent), but also in terms of technique, content, message,… are all superior. Not stopping there, Kendrick Lamar also prevailed over Drake on the Billboard Hot 100 chart this week.
Top 10 Billboard Hot 100 chart this week.
Specifically, the extremely intense diss track Not Like Us debuted at number one on Billboard with 70.9 million official streams and 15 thousand copies sold in the US. In this diss track, Kendrick Lamar directly points out that Drake is a pedophile who likes to meet young girls. Kendrick also posted a picture of Drake’s house with a symbol of a 𝓈ℯ𝓍ual assaulter. The remaining diss tracks that Kendrick Lamar aimed at Drake also landed in the top 10 include #3 – Euphoria (mocking Drake’s preference for hanging out with much younger women, even hinting that Drake is gay); #6 – Like That (Kendrick Lamar affirms his number 1 position).
Drake’s relatively weak response track to Kendrick Lamar’s “all-out attack” – Family Matters – also debuted at No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. In this track, Drake attacks more personal issues by Kendrick, alluding to Kendrick’s troubled relationship with his fiancee Whitney Alford, accusing Kendrick of having an affair and “touching” her, even continuing to bodysham Kendrick because of the rapper’s modest height.
Great Drake War – Kendrick Lamar fell asleep with the result in favor of Kendrick Lamar.
Even the Taylor Swift “industry” is having a hard time staying afloat in the face of the “great war” that can be considered the most intense in the rap industry in many years. Fortnight fell from number one to number 4 with a clear decline in indexes. However, this is the time when Taylor Swift is focusing on The Eras Tour with an extremely impressive arrangement for her own “era” of The Tortured Poets Department, so there is a high possibility that the tracks on the album will soon return to the top 10. .
