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meet the grahams

By Kendrick Lamar · Targeting Drake

meet the grahams is a diss track by Kendrick Lamar targeting Drake. The track is part of Drake and Kendrick Lamar's 2024 exchange, a rapid sequence of response records that followed Kendrick's verse on “Like That.”

Released2024

Annotated14

ExplicitYes

Addressable transcript

Lyrics & breakdown

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[Verse 1]
Multi-line diss block
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Dear Adonis
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I'm sorry that that man is your father, let me be honest
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It takes a man to be a man, your dad is not responsive
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I look at him and wish your grandpa would've wore a condom
Block noteMakes the feud personal through family
TargetDrake
MeaningWhat it means: In “I'm sorry that that man is your father, let me be honest,” Kendrick Lamar brings a relative or family boundary into the exchange with Drake, moving the dispute beyond music and into private life. Why it was said: The track is part of Drake and Kendrick Lamar's 2024 exchange, a rapid sequence of response records that followed Kendrick's verse on “Like That.” Family references explain why the conflict feels personal: they raise the emotional cost for Drake and make the line more consequential than a routine comparison of rap skill.
ContextThe track is part of Drake and Kendrick Lamar's 2024 exchange, a rapid sequence of response records that followed Kendrick's verse on “Like That.”
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I'm sorry that you gotta grow up and then stand behind him
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Life is hard, I know, the challenge is always gon' beat us home
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Sometimes our parents make mistakes that affect us until we grown
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And you're a good kid that need good leadership
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Let me be your mentor since your daddy don't teach you shit
Multi-line diss block
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Never let a man piss on your leg, son
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Either you die right there or pop that man in the head, son
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Never fall in the escort business, that's bad religion
Block noteMakes the feud personal through family
TargetDrake
MeaningWhat it means: In “Let me be your mentor since your daddy don't teach you shit,” Kendrick Lamar brings a relative or family boundary into the exchange with Drake, moving the dispute beyond music and into private life. Why it was said: The track is part of Drake and Kendrick Lamar's 2024 exchange, a rapid sequence of response records that followed Kendrick's verse on “Like That.” Family references explain why the conflict feels personal: they raise the emotional cost for Drake and make the line more consequential than a routine comparison of rap skill.
ContextThe track is part of Drake and Kendrick Lamar's 2024 exchange, a rapid sequence of response records that followed Kendrick's verse on “Like That.”
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Please remember, you could be a bitch even if you got bitches
Multi-line diss block
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Never code-switch, whether right or wrong, you're a Black man
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Even if it don't benefit your goals, do some push-ups, get some discipline
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Don't cut them corners like your daddy did, fuck what Ozempic did
Block noteMakes the feud personal through family
TargetDrake
MeaningWhat it means: In “Don't cut them corners like your daddy did, fuck what Ozempic did,” Kendrick Lamar brings a relative or family boundary into the exchange with Drake, moving the dispute beyond music and into private life. Why it was said: The track is part of Drake and Kendrick Lamar's 2024 exchange, a rapid sequence of response records that followed Kendrick's verse on “Like That.” Family references explain why the conflict feels personal: they raise the emotional cost for Drake and make the line more consequential than a routine comparison of rap skill.
ContextThe track is part of Drake and Kendrick Lamar's 2024 exchange, a rapid sequence of response records that followed Kendrick's verse on “Like That.”
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Don't pay to play with them Brazilians, get a gym membership
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Understand, no throwin' rocks and hidin' hands, that's law
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Don't be ashamed 'bout who you wit', that's how he treat your moms
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Don't have a kid to hide a kid to hide again, be sure
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Five percent will comprehend, but ninety-five is lost
Multi-line diss block
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Be proud of who you are, your strength come from within
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Lotta superstars that's real, but your daddy ain't one of them
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And you nothin' like him, you'll carry yourself as king
Block noteMakes the feud personal through family
TargetDrake
MeaningWhat it means: In “Lotta superstars that's real, but your daddy ain't one of them,” Kendrick Lamar brings a relative or family boundary into the exchange with Drake, moving the dispute beyond music and into private life. Why it was said: The track is part of Drake and Kendrick Lamar's 2024 exchange, a rapid sequence of response records that followed Kendrick's verse on “Like That.” Family references explain why the conflict feels personal: they raise the emotional cost for Drake and make the line more consequential than a routine comparison of rap skill.
ContextThe track is part of Drake and Kendrick Lamar's 2024 exchange, a rapid sequence of response records that followed Kendrick's verse on “Like That.”
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Can't understand me right now? Just play this when you eighteen
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[Verse 2]
Multi-line diss block
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Dear Sandra
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Your son got some habits, I hope you don't undermine them
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Especially with all the girls that's hurt inside this climate
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You a woman, so you know how it feels to be in alignment
Block noteMakes the feud personal through family
TargetDrake
MeaningWhat it means: In “Your son got some habits, I hope you don't undermine them,” Kendrick Lamar brings a relative or family boundary into the exchange with Drake, moving the dispute beyond music and into private life. Why it was said: The track is part of Drake and Kendrick Lamar's 2024 exchange, a rapid sequence of response records that followed Kendrick's verse on “Like That.” Family references explain why the conflict feels personal: they raise the emotional cost for Drake and make the line more consequential than a routine comparison of rap skill.
ContextThe track is part of Drake and Kendrick Lamar's 2024 exchange, a rapid sequence of response records that followed Kendrick's verse on “Like That.”
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With emotion, hopin' a man can see you and not be blinded
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Dear Dennis, you gave birth to a master manipulator
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Even using you to prove who he is is a huge favor
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I think you should ask for more paper, and more paper
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And more, uh, more paper
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I'm blamin' you for all his gamblin' addictions
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Psychopath intuition, the man that like to play victim
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You raised a horrible fuckin' person, the nerve of you, Dennis
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Sandra, sit down, what I'm about to say is heavy, now listen, mm-mm
Multi-line diss block
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Your son's a sick man with sick thoughts; I think niggas like him should die
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Him and Weinstein should get fucked up in a cell for the rest they life
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He hates Black women, hypersexualize 'em with kinks of a nympho fetish
Block noteMakes the feud personal through family
TargetDrake
MeaningWhat it means: In “Your son's a sick man with sick thoughts; I think niggas like him should die,” Kendrick Lamar brings a relative or family boundary into the exchange with Drake, moving the dispute beyond music and into private life. Why it was said: The track is part of Drake and Kendrick Lamar's 2024 exchange, a rapid sequence of response records that followed Kendrick's verse on “Like That.” Family references explain why the conflict feels personal: they raise the emotional cost for Drake and make the line more consequential than a routine comparison of rap skill.
ContextThe track is part of Drake and Kendrick Lamar's 2024 exchange, a rapid sequence of response records that followed Kendrick's verse on “Like That.”
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Grew facial hair because he understood bein' a beard just fit him better
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He got sex offenders on ho-VO that he keep on a monthly allowance
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A child should never be compromised, and he keepin' his child around them
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And we gotta raise our daughters knowin' there's predators like him lurkin'
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Fuck a rap battle, he should die so all of these women can live with a purpose
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I been in this industry twelve years, I'ma tell y'all one lil' secret
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It's some weird shit goin' on, and some of these artists be here to police it
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They be streamlinin' victims all inside of they home and callin' 'em tender
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Then leak videos of themselves to further push their agendas
Multi-line diss block
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To any woman that be playin' his music, know that you're playin' your sister
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Or better, you're sellin' your niece to the weirdos, not the good ones
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Katt Williams said, "Get you the truth," so I'ma get mines
Block noteMakes the feud personal through family
TargetDrake
MeaningWhat it means: In “To any woman that be playin' his music, know that you're playin' your sister,” Kendrick Lamar brings a relative or family boundary into the exchange with Drake, moving the dispute beyond music and into private life. Why it was said: The track is part of Drake and Kendrick Lamar's 2024 exchange, a rapid sequence of response records that followed Kendrick's verse on “Like That.” Family references explain why the conflict feels personal: they raise the emotional cost for Drake and make the line more consequential than a routine comparison of rap skill.
ContextThe track is part of Drake and Kendrick Lamar's 2024 exchange, a rapid sequence of response records that followed Kendrick's verse on “Like That.”
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The Embassy 'bout to get raided too, it's only a matter of time
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Ayy, LeBron, keep the family away, hey, Curry, keep the family away
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To anybody that embody the love for their kids, keep the family away
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They lookin' at you too if you standin' by him, keep the family away
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I'm lookin' to shoot through any pervert that lives, keep the family safe
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[Verse 3]
Multi-line diss block
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Dear baby girl
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I'm sorry that your father not active inside your world
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He don't commit to much, but his music, yeah, that's for sure
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He a narcissist, misogynist, livin' inside his songs
Block noteMakes the feud personal through family
TargetDrake
MeaningWhat it means: In “I'm sorry that your father not active inside your world,” Kendrick Lamar brings a relative or family boundary into the exchange with Drake, moving the dispute beyond music and into private life. Why it was said: The track is part of Drake and Kendrick Lamar's 2024 exchange, a rapid sequence of response records that followed Kendrick's verse on “Like That.” Family references explain why the conflict feels personal: they raise the emotional cost for Drake and make the line more consequential than a routine comparison of rap skill.
ContextThe track is part of Drake and Kendrick Lamar's 2024 exchange, a rapid sequence of response records that followed Kendrick's verse on “Like That.”
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Try destroyin' families rather than taking care of his own
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Should be teaching you time tables or watchin' Frozen with you
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Or at your eleventh birthday singin' poems with you
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Instead, he be in Turks payin' for sex and poppin' Percs, examples that you don't deserve
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I wanna tell you that you're loved, you're brave, you're kind
Multi-line diss block
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You got a gift to change the world, and could change your father's mind
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'Cause our children is the future, but he lives inside confusion
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Money's always been illusion, but that's the life he's used to
Block noteMakes the feud personal through family
TargetDrake
MeaningWhat it means: In “You got a gift to change the world, and could change your father's mind,” Kendrick Lamar brings a relative or family boundary into the exchange with Drake, moving the dispute beyond music and into private life. Why it was said: The track is part of Drake and Kendrick Lamar's 2024 exchange, a rapid sequence of response records that followed Kendrick's verse on “Like That.” Family references explain why the conflict feels personal: they raise the emotional cost for Drake and make the line more consequential than a routine comparison of rap skill.
ContextThe track is part of Drake and Kendrick Lamar's 2024 exchange, a rapid sequence of response records that followed Kendrick's verse on “Like That.”
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His father prolly didn't claim him neither
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History do repeats itself, sometimes it don't need a reason
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But I would like to say it's not your fault that he's hidin' another child
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Give him grace, this the reason I made Mr. Morale
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So our babies like you can cope later
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Give you some confidence to go through somethin', it's hope later
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I never wanna hear you chase a man 'cause it's feral behavior
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Sittin' in the club with sugar daddies for validation
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You need to know that love is eternity and trumps all pain
Multi-line diss block
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I'll tell you who your father is, just play this song when it rains
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Yes, he's a hitmaker, songwriter, superstar, right
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And a fuckin' deadbeat that should never say "more life"
Block noteMakes the feud personal through family
TargetDrake
MeaningWhat it means: In “I'll tell you who your father is, just play this song when it rains,” Kendrick Lamar brings a relative or family boundary into the exchange with Drake, moving the dispute beyond music and into private life. Why it was said: The track is part of Drake and Kendrick Lamar's 2024 exchange, a rapid sequence of response records that followed Kendrick's verse on “Like That.” Family references explain why the conflict feels personal: they raise the emotional cost for Drake and make the line more consequential than a routine comparison of rap skill.
ContextThe track is part of Drake and Kendrick Lamar's 2024 exchange, a rapid sequence of response records that followed Kendrick's verse on “Like That.”
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Meet the Grahams
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[Verse 4]
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Dear Aubrey
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I know you probably thinkin' I wanted to crash your party
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But truthfully, I don't have a hatin' bone in my body
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This supposed to be a good exhibition within the game
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But you fucked up the moment you called out my family's name
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Why you had to stoop so low to discredit some decent people?
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Guess integrity is lost when the metaphors doesn't reach you
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And I like to understand 'cause your house was never a home
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Thirty-seven, but you showin' up as a seven-year-old
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You got gamblin' problems, drinkin' problems, pill-poppin' and spendin' problems
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Bad with money, whorehouse
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Solicitin' women problems, therapy's a lovely start
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But I suggest some ayahuasca, strip the ego from the bottom
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I try to empathize with you 'cause I know that you ain't been through nothin'
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Crave entitlement, but wanna be liked so bad that it's puzzlin'
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No dominance, let's recap moments when you didn't fit in
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No secret handshakes with your friend
Multi-line diss block
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No culture cachet to binge, just disrespectin' your mother
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Identity's on the fence, don't know which family will love ya
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The skin that you livin' in is compromised in personas
Block noteMakes the feud personal through family
TargetDrake
MeaningWhat it means: In “No culture cachet to binge, just disrespectin' your mother,” Kendrick Lamar brings a relative or family boundary into the exchange with Drake, moving the dispute beyond music and into private life. Why it was said: The track is part of Drake and Kendrick Lamar's 2024 exchange, a rapid sequence of response records that followed Kendrick's verse on “Like That.” Family references explain why the conflict feels personal: they raise the emotional cost for Drake and make the line more consequential than a routine comparison of rap skill.
ContextThe track is part of Drake and Kendrick Lamar's 2024 exchange, a rapid sequence of response records that followed Kendrick's verse on “Like That.”
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Can't channel your masculine even when standin' next to a woman
Multi-line diss block
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You a body shamer, you gon' hide them baby mamas, ain't ya?
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You embarrassed of 'em, that's not right, that ain't how mama raised us
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Take that mask off, I wanna see what's under them achievements
Block noteMakes the feud personal through family
TargetDrake
MeaningWhat it means: In “You a body shamer, you gon' hide them baby mamas, ain't ya?,” Kendrick Lamar brings a relative or family boundary into the exchange with Drake, moving the dispute beyond music and into private life. Why it was said: The track is part of Drake and Kendrick Lamar's 2024 exchange, a rapid sequence of response records that followed Kendrick's verse on “Like That.” Family references explain why the conflict feels personal: they raise the emotional cost for Drake and make the line more consequential than a routine comparison of rap skill.
ContextThe track is part of Drake and Kendrick Lamar's 2024 exchange, a rapid sequence of response records that followed Kendrick's verse on “Like That.”
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Why believe you? You never gave us nothin' to believe in
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'Cause you lied about religious views, you lied about your surgery
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You lied about your accent and your past tense, all is perjury
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You lied about your ghostwriters, you lied about your crew members
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They all pussy, you lied on 'em, I know they all got you in 'em
Multi-line diss block
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You lied about your son, you lied about your daughter, huh
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You lied about them other kids that's out there hopin' that you come
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You lied about the only artist that can offer you some help
Block noteMakes the feud personal through family
TargetDrake
MeaningWhat it means: In “You lied about your son, you lied about your daughter, huh,” Kendrick Lamar brings a relative or family boundary into the exchange with Drake, moving the dispute beyond music and into private life. Why it was said: The track is part of Drake and Kendrick Lamar's 2024 exchange, a rapid sequence of response records that followed Kendrick's verse on “Like That.” Family references explain why the conflict feels personal: they raise the emotional cost for Drake and make the line more consequential than a routine comparison of rap skill.
ContextThe track is part of Drake and Kendrick Lamar's 2024 exchange, a rapid sequence of response records that followed Kendrick's verse on “Like That.”
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Fuck a rap battle, this a long life battle with yourself
Multi-line diss block
Block noteForces the dispute into a direct contest
TargetDrake
MeaningWhat it means: In “Fuck a rap battle, this a long life battle with yourself,” Kendrick Lamar addresses Drake as an opponent who must prove the claims being made rather than rely on reputation. Why it was said: The track is part of Drake and Kendrick Lamar's 2024 exchange, a rapid sequence of response records that followed Kendrick's verse on “Like That.” The challenge narrows the argument to performance under pressure, where refusing or failing to answer can itself be presented as a loss for Drake.
ContextThe track is part of Drake and Kendrick Lamar's 2024 exchange, a rapid sequence of response records that followed Kendrick's verse on “Like That.”