The internet believes Kendrick Lamar is untouched, while his ultimate rivals – the other two of the ‘Big Three’ – Drake and J. Cole are facing a virtual slap in the face for releasing music without thinking it through, after coming out of a war of words that they have been embroiled in for over a month.
A week ago, J. Cole unexpectedly joined Cash Cobain on his song ‘Grippy,’ rising above all the messy drama that spiraled out of control when Kendrick Lamar spit fire on his verse on Future’s ‘Like That.’ Although Cole made his exit before more gunfire broke out between the Pulitzer-winning hip-hop star and Drake, he did make his point by criticizing Lamar earlier on ‘7 Minute Drill.’ Staying true to the title of his mixtape that contained the song, Cole, in fact, later deleted it to get out of the messy controversy.
Kendrick and Drake kept hurling strong digs at each other, some more personal than others. While the ‘Hotline Bling’ hitmaker’s hits like ‘Push Ups’ and ‘Family Matters’ clearly kept the web hooked and the headlines, his first featured outing outside of that line-up crashed with a questionable crash.
Teaming up with relatively new Toronto artist Snowd4y, Drizzy created the song ‘Wah Gwan Delilah’, which is a parody of Plain White T’s 2005 hit track. Just like Cole’s ‘Grippy’, Drake’s latest beat also faced criticism from fans.
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Reactions to Drake and J. Cole’s first music releases since Kendrick Lamar controversy
Fans’ lips pursed in disdain, while many chose to push these releases aside after hearing the iconic rappers’ tunes. Some even went so far as to hail Kendrick Lamar as the “boogeyman” who supposedly intimidated his rivals, resulting in these nonsensical deliveries. Many stood by the proposition that Lamar had conquered their minds, and that the mental burden was indeed too much for Drake and Cole to bear.
Yet, when the army of hip-hop fans gathered to poke fun at them, hardly anyone thought that the two artists were probably just venting. After all, they have just come out of a major war in the Dis-verse. Whatever the case, the internet, as usual, continues to fabricate stories around Cole and Drake, who probably just wanted to have some fun.
Given the current climate of the hip-hop world, you never know when the next feud of peace-destroying rhymes might start up again. The spark is still burning, especially after Drake’s May 2024 post of Kendrick Lamar’s diss track “The Heart Part 6” was deleted from Instagram.
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Here’s what several hip-hop fans wrote on X/Twitter:
- “Grippy and wow gwaan Delilah… if you didn’t already believe the boogeyman story it’s time you found out why. Leave Compton alone!”
- “The devastating fallout caused by Kendrick “The Boogeyman” Lamar must be studied.”
- “I refuse to believe that Wow Gwan is the first 2 tracks post Delilah and Grippy Kendrick controversy… it’s not like that at all 😔
- “Kendrick took J Cole and Drakes talent with him after feuding with them.”
- “Both Drake and J. Cole have released the worst music of their entire careers right after losing to and being dissed by Kendrick Lamar.”
- Moreover, after Drake deleted ‘The Heart Part 6’ post from Instagram, the fire turned into a wildfire. Comments like, “He’s almost confirmed he lost”, and “He finally realized he lost”, were posted.
- “Drake deleted The Heart Part 6 from his Instagram page? That’s a shame… Kendrick Lamar really is The Boogeyman.”
- “This is no joke. This is a real song. Drake came out of the Kendrick Lamar controversy with this song. An accented version of Hey There Delilah. I’m shedding real tears here.”
