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Music The Day Rap Broke The Internet: Reexamining Kendrick Lamar's "Meet The Grahams" Vs. Drake's "Family Matters" One year ago today, Drake and Kendrick Lamar went song-for-song at the height of their feud. By Aron A. May 03, 2025
Music Kendrick Lamar & Doechii The Main Attractions For Upcoming Split Milk Festival After not going down in 2024, Australian music festival Split Milk is returning and with Kendrick Lamar and Doechii no less. By Zachary Horvath May 03, 2025
Music DJ Akademiks Reveals Who He Thinks Saved Rap After Kendrick Lamar “Ruined" It DJ Akademiks recently took to Twitter to look back on the peak of Kendrick Lamar and Drake's feud a year later. By Caroline Fisher May 03, 2025
Music DJ Akademiks Goes Scorched Earth On DJ Hed For His Kendrick Lamar Drake Debate With Mal DJ Akademiks and Mal may give Kendrick Lamar a lot of props in the Drake beef, but Ak's praise doesn't extend to pro-K.Dot fans like DJ Hed. By Gabriel Bras Nevares May 03, 2025
Music DJ Akademiks Ranks Every Song From Drake & Kendrick Lamar’s Explosive Feud According to DJ Akademiks, his ranking of the songs from Drake and Kendrick Lamar's battle is "based off quality, bars, not impact." By Caroline Fisher May 03, 2025
Music Warren G Claims Snoop Dogg & Dr Dre Ghosted His Calls During Their Super Bowl Performance Warren G said he just wants to hang out with Snoop Dogg and Dr Dre again, and isn't asking them for anything more. By Gabriel Bras Nevares May 03, 2025
Music Fat Joe's Mother Passes Away At 77 Our condolences go out to Fat Joe and his loved ones as these last couple of months have been incredibly rough for the NY rapper. By Zachary Horvath May 03, 2025
Music Finesse2tymes Seemingly Turns Himself In After Allegedly Threatening To Shoot Girlfriend’s Mother Finesse2tymes accuses his girlfriend's mother of being jealous, and accuses his ex-protégé FNG King of cooperating with authorities. By Caroline Fisher May 03, 2025
Music Jim Jones Doubles Down On His Pessimistic View Of His Beef With Cam'ron Dipset's Jim Jones and Cam'ron started feuding earlier this year due to some comments Cam made about Jim performing at a 50 Cent show. By Gabriel Bras Nevares May 02, 2025
Music UMG's Newest Partnership Sparks Major Suspicion From Drake Fans Drake is currently taking legal action against Universal Music Group over the release of Kendrick Lamar's "Not Like Us." By Cole Blake April 02, 2025
Music NAV Outpacing Lil Durk In Tight First-Week Sales Race A lot of fans are absolutely flabbergasted by this current projection but clearly, NAV did his thing with "OMW2 REXDALE." By Zachary Horvath April 02, 2025
Music DJ Mustard Announces He's Joining Kendrick Lamar & SZA's "Grand National Tour" As The Opening Act There was some hope that Doechii was going to be the opener for Kendrick Lamar and SZA, but its DJ Mustard who fills in instead. By Zachary Horvath April 01, 2025