Kendrick Lamar Comes Back for More on His Second Drake Diss ...

A hater’s well never runs dry and Kendrick Lamar‘s is overflowing. The rapper started this week off by letting Drake know just how much he hates him on the single “Euphoria,” released without warning on Tuesday morning. Drake knew the response was coming — in fact, he released two back-to-back singles urging Kendrick to get in the booth. “Euphoria,” as it turns out, was only the beginning. On Friday morning, the rapper came back for more with another surprise release, “6:16 in LA.”

“Have you ever thought that OVO was working for me?/Fake bully, I hate bullies/You must be a terrible person,” Kendrick tells Drake on the record. “Everyone inside your team is whispering that you deserve it/Can’t Toosie Slide up outta this one/It’s just gon’ resurface.”

The reference to “Toosie Slide,” Drake’s attempt at sparking a TikTok trend in 2020, nods to some gripes that Kendrick expressed on “Euphoria,” where he rapped: “I make music that electrify ’em, you make music that pacify ’em/I can double down on that line, but spare you this time, that’s random acts of kindness.”

A few hours after “Euphoria” was released, Drake referenced it in an Instagram Story. Responding to Kendrick declaring “I hate the way that you walk, the way that you talk, I hate the way that you dress” with a scene from 10 Things I Hate About You, where Julia Stiles delivers the classic monologue that follows the same pattern: “I hate the way you talk to me and the way you cut your hair. I hate the way you drive my car. I hate it when you stare; I hate your big dumb combat boots and the way you read my mind.”

On “6:16 in LA,” Kendrick makes a note of Drake’s affinity for memes, rapping: “You’re playin’ dirty with Zack Bia and Twitter bots/But your reality can’t hide behind Wi-Fi/Your lil’ memes are losing steam, they figured you out.”

The record also references the role of rap media personality DJ Akademics in this ongoing fuel. For background, Drake released the Kendrick diss track “Taylor Made Freestyle” last week. After it was released and before it was removed following the threat of legal action from Tupac’s estate, Akademics said that Drake sent him a text message noting, “I was waiting on Kendrick for years to go first… then I could actually drop… I was tryna come off tour and relax, and niggas fucked up my whole Feng shui.”

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Akademics’ reactions to the ongoing circus — often captured on live streams, like the one he’s on right now as this is being written — have become an act within it, as Kendrick notes: “Yeah, somebody’s lyin’, I could see the vibes on Ak’/Even he lookin’ compromised, let’s peel the layers back/Ain’t no brownie points will be on your chest/Harassin’ and fuckin’ with good people.”

Drake has yet to respond to either diss outside of his Instagram Story.