The Drake–Kendrick Lamar The feud continues to escalate after the Canadian rapper released “The Heart Part 6,” a new diss track on Sunday night that pushed back against some of the sexual predator accusations Lamar made in a series of songs released over the past week.
The biggest rap feud in years has become increasingly vicious and personal, with both Drake and Lamar making baseless accusations at each other. Among them, Drake has accused Lamar of physically abusing his partner, and Lamar suggested that Drake has a hidden love child. In his last few songs, Lamar has focused on accusations that Drake is a sexual predator, and in the song “Meet the Grahams,” released on May 3, he directly accuses Drake of harboring “sex offenders” on his label OVO and even calls his rival a “pervert” for his alleged interest in younger women. He also raps that “we have to raise our daughters knowing that there are predators like him lurking.”
In “Meet the Grahams,” Lamar also raps that “The Embassy gon' get robbed too, it's just a matter of time,” a direct reference to Drake's home, which he has dubbed “The Embassy,” and links it to recent federal raids at the homes of Sean “Diddy” Combs were related to an unspecified ongoing investigation.
Lamar doubled down on the predator accusations against Drake in a follow-up diss track, “Not Like Us,” released on May 4. In that song, Lamar more explicitly calls Drake a predator, rapping the line: “Say, Drake, I hear you like them young.” Elsewhere in the song, Lamar calls Drake and his crew pedophiles, rapping, “Certified Lover Boy? A minor.”
Lamar further makes accusations by having the cover photo of “Not Like Us” be a Google Maps image of Drake's house covered in predator map pins.
In a song posted to YouTube on Sunday, Drake addresses Lamar's numerous accusations in the song “The Heart Part 6,” a title that plays off Lamar's critically acclaimed 2022 song “The Heart Part 5.” The song features a sample of the Aretha Franklin song “Prove It” and begins with Franklin singing the lines, “Let me see you prove it now / Just let me see you prove it.”
Drake Addresses Predator Accusations In 'The Heart Part 6', Raps: 'Speaking of anything to a kid, let's look at that now / This Epstein angle was the shit I expected / TikTok- videos you've collected and dissected / Instead of somehow being concerned with the wrong direction / You'd rather pick up your pen and steer the wrong way,” Lamar accuses of spreading lies.
Later in the song, Drake returns to denying the predator accusations. “I've never been with anyone underage, but now I understand why this is the angle you really mess with / Just to clarify, I'm disgusted, I'm too respected,” he raps, before adding, “If I would fuck young girls , I promise I got arrested / I'm way too famous for this crap you just proposed.
Also in the song, Drake raps, “Only fuckin' with Whitneys, not Millie Bobby Browns, I would never look twice at a teenager.” The rapper makes an unsolicited reference to his alleged inappropriate relationship with Stranger things star Millie Bobby Brown. In a 2018 Access to Hollywood interviewthe British actress shared that she befriended Drake when she was 14 and that they texted each other.
In the song, Drake suggests that Lamar is throwing accusations of predators at him as a way for the Compton rapper to process and project his own trauma of alleged abuse as a child. Drake raps: 'Wait a minute, that's that one record where you say you were abused / Aw, fuck me, I just made the whole connection / This is about to get so depressing / This is a trauma of your own confessions / This when your dad leaves you home alone without protection, so neglected / That's why these pedophile raps and shit you're so obsessed with, it's so exaggerated.
In the outro of “The Heart Part 6,” Drake raps, “You'd be a worthy competitor if I really was a predator and you wouldn't lie to every blogger and editor, but / It is what it is.”