The Kendrick Lamar / Drake beef keeps moving at a rapidfire pace, and last night (5/5), Drake responded to Kendrick’s last two songs with “The Heart Part 6.” Just as Kendrick’s “6:16 in LA” had a title that referenced Drake’s timestamp series, “The Heart Part 6” clearly references Kendrick’s “Heart” series. Over a beat from frequent collaborator Boi-1da that begins with a sample of Aretha Franklin’s “Prove It,” Drake goes on to deny the multiple allegations that Kendrick has made against him, including that he’s a pedophile and has a secret daughter, and he says his camp’s been feeding Kendrick misinformation to see if he takes the bait. He also brings up Kendrick addressing sexual trauma on “Mother I Sober” from his 2022 album Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers, and raps, “This is trauma from your own confessions/This when your father leave you home alone with no protection, so neglected/That’s why these pedophile raps is shit you so obsessed with, it’s so excessive.”

During the song’s spoken word outro, Drake brings up Kendrick’s club-friendly “Not Like Us” and says, “I would like that one… that would be some shit I could dance to if you wasn’t triplin’ down on some whole other bullshit.”

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