Kendrick Lamar May Have Dissed Drake Back In 2018 On The "Black Panther" Soundtrack

BYCole BlakePublished on May 08, 20244.8K Views

Kendrick Lamar Performs During Half Time For The 2018 College Football Playoff National Championship Game

ATLANTA, GA - JANUARY 08: Rapper Kendrick Lamar performs during half time during 2018 College Football Playoff National Championship Game at Centennial Olympic Park on January 8, 2018 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Paras Griffin/Getty Images)

Fans think Kendrick Lamar's been dissing Drake for years.

While going back through Kendrick Lamar's catalog, fans have come to believe the Compton rapper has been dissing Drake for much longer than just a couple of months. In one viral tweet from Tuesday night, a user on Twitter theorized that Lamar dissed Drake on the Black Panther soundtrack for the song, "All the Stars." They shared a comment from Drake congratulating Lamar for going number one on the charts with his album, Damn. On "All the Stars," he raps: "F*ck you and all your expectations / I don't even want your congratulations"

"Can we bring it back to 2018 when Drake congratulated Kendrick for outselling him and Kendrick replied with a verse on the Black Panther album that said 'Don't Congratulate Me - I Don't Like You.' There was entire hip hop forum discussions about how this verse was for Drake, and I can't find any of them anymore," The tweet reads. When another user suggested Lamar has been throwing subliminal shots at Drake for years, they wrote back: "It's so OBVIOUS, which is why I personally get annoyed when people say the beef is new. It's been 10 years of jabs back and forth."

Kendrick Lamar Attends The Met Gala

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 01: Kendrick Lamar attends The 2023 Met Gala Celebrating "Karl Lagerfeld: A Line Of Beauty" at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 01, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Arturo Holmes/MG23/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue)

Lamar and Drake have been beefing directly since the release of Future and Metro Boomin's "Like That," back in March. On the song, Lamar called out both Drake and J. Cole for mentioning him on "First Person Shooter." In the time since, Lamar and Drake have dropped several diss tracks aimed at one another.

Fans Think Kendrick Lamar Previously Dissed Drake

Check out Lamar's interaction with Drake as well as his "All The Stars" verse above. Be on the lookout for further updates on Kendrick Lamar and Drake on HotNewHipHop.

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Cole Blake is currently an Editor at HotNewHipHop based out of Brooklyn, New York. He began working at the site as an intern back in 2018 while studying journalism at St. John’s University. In the time since, he’s graduated with a bachelor's degree and written extensively about a wide range of topics including pop culture, film & television, politics, video games, sports, and much more. He’s also covered music festivals such as Gov. Ball and Rolling Loud. You can find him publishing work for HNHH from Monday to Wednesday or on weekends. On the sports front, Cole’s a passionate NBA and NFL fan with his favorite teams being the Indianapolis Colts and Los Angeles Lakers. He also roots for the Yankees whenever he finds himself at Yankee Stadium or the Red Storm when in the company of other SJU alumni. His favorite hip-hop artists are billy woods, Earl Sweatshirt, Cam’ron, MIKE, and Mach-Hommy.