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How That Joke About Drake and Kendrick Lamar’s Beef Made It Into Conan O’Brien’s Oscars Monologue
Writer and comedian Skyler Higley breaks down how he slid a “Not Like Us” reference into Academy Awards lore.
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Drake Tests the Post-Beef Waters With Some Solid Songs (and Some Skips)
His new project with Partynextdoor is a perfectly-fine heat check, but demonstrates that Drizzy Drake is very much alive—and that he might be able to fully bounce back with a strong solo album before long.
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The Kendrick Lamar/Drake Beef, Explained
From “Like That” to “Not Like Us” to the Pop Out and unprecedented lawsuits, we've got your complete guide to the rap feud that's captivated pop culture all year long.
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Watching Kendrick Lamar Live in New Orleans
GQ columnist Frazier Tharpe walks in the Big Easy with the etiquette of LA to feel the energy on the ground for Kendrick’s historic halftime performance.
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On Kendrick Lamar’s GNX, The Hardest Diss Song Is A History Lesson
Asserting his place in a broader lineage of Black music on the polarizing “Reincarnated,” Kendrick attacks Drake's bona fides one more time—without ever saying his name.
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Drake Wore Two Blinged-Out Watches at Once
Because one Jacob & Co. Five Time Zone watch isn’t enough.
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What Comes Next for Rap Music? 17 Experts Weigh In
Superstars at war. Old heads jockeying with the kids for chart supremacy. Up-and-comers from across the country redrawing the map. Hip-hop is more than 50 years old, and it’s still constantly changing. We asked a blue-ribbon panel of writers, broadcasters, MCs, and execs about what kind of year it’s been—and who's up next.
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J. Cole Addresses Bowing Out of Beef With Kendrick Lamar and Shouts Out Drake on New Song ‘Port Antonio’
“Ay Drake, you'll always be my n-gga.”
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How Jay-Z Tapping Kendrick Lamar to Play the Super Bowl Reopened Rap-World Wounds Right and Left
K. Dot’s halftime-show booking came thanks in part to the NFL’s partnership with the Roc Nation founder—and has heated up long-standing issues between Jay and fellow artists like Lil Wayne, Drake, and Nicki Minaj.
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Watch Kendrick Lamar Put On for His City—And Tame an Owl—in the Video for ‘Not Like Us’
The Compton rapper returns to his stomping grounds in the visual for his summer-dominating Drake diss track.
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In the Midst of War, Kendrick Lamar Delivered the Song of the Summer
Someone go hand him a Grammy right now!
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The Drake/Kendrick Lamar Beef Has a Winner. Where Do We Go From Here?
The low blows thrown during this weekend’s volley of diss songs have changed hip-hop’s rules of engagement forever—and may have shifted both Drake and Kendrick’s legacies in the bargain.
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The AI Rap Era Has Already Started. Here’s Why It Might Be Great
Purists recoiled when Drake used new technology to diss Kendrick Lamar in the voices of Tupac and Snoop Dogg—but that's what always happens when hip-hop is on the verge of another evolutionary leap.
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Future and Metro Boomin's We Still Don't Trust You Features A$AP Rocky, The Weeknd, and New Jabs At Drake
Future and Metro's second great album in three weeks opens a new battlefront in the beef of the year.
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J. Cole Publicly Apologizes to Kendrick Lamar for Dissing Him and Bows Out of the Beef
After only two days, Cole is walking back his “7 Minute Drill” diss track after using his Dreamville Fest performance to apologize to Kendrick and declare that he's done with this beef.
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Adonis Gave Drake His Best Album Cover in Years
Drake’s five year-old son just took the For All the Dogs rollout up a notch.
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Drake and His Furry Boots Don’t Care That It’s July
Sweatpants, hair tied, chillin’ with shearling Loewe stompers on—even on a swampy New York summer day.
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Here’s What Went Down at Night One of Drake’s New Tour
Drake kicked off It's All a Blur, his first tour in five years, last night in Chicago.
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Drake Is Dropping a New Poetry Book—and Revealed He Has a New Album to Go Along With It
A QR code in Drake’s promo for his book teased a new album, For All the Dogs.
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Inside the Latest Chapter of the Kanye West-Drake Beef
Drake sampling Kim Kardashian's comments about her divorce on his new song is just the latest chapter in a long-standing Cold War.