Kendrick Lamar and Drake have been exchanging diss records since the release of Metro Boomin and Future’s track ‘Like That’. Since the song’s release, the Scorpion emcee has released multiple songs, including ‘Push Ups’, ‘Taylor Made Freestyle’, ‘Family Matters’ and ‘The Heart Part 6’.
However, one of Kendrick Lamar’s diss tracks, ‘Not Like Us’, has broken a Spotify streaming record previously held by Drake and Lil Baby. In 2021, Drake released his sixth studio album, Certified Lover Boy. The project featured the song ‘Girls Want Girls’ featuring Lil Baby, and the hit managed to accrue over 6.5 million streams in 24 hours.
However, Lamar has now smashed that record with his diss track, ‘Not Like Us,’ which makes fun of the album. On the song, he rhymes, “Certified Lover Boy, certified paedophiles,” before continuing: “Say, Drake, I hear you like ’em young / You better not ever go to cell block one,” and “Tryna strike a chord, and it’s probably A-minor.”
Upon its release, ‘Not Like Us’ managed to rack up over 10.9 million streams in a day, making it the “biggest single day streams of a hip-hop song in US Spotify history”, according to ChartData.
The song focuses heavily on Drake and alleges the Canadian of paedophilia and asserts he has an unhealthy interest in young girls with lyrics such as, “Say Drake, I hear you like ’em young / You better not ever go to cell block one / To any bitch that talk to him and they in love / Just make sure you hide your little sister from him.”
As well as the above, the Compton native also accuses Drake of sleeping with Lil Wayne’s girlfriend while the Young Money mogul was locked up on a gun charge in New York a few years back, rhyming, “Fucked on Wayne girl while he was in jail, that’s connivin’ / Then get his face tatted like a bitch apologizing.”
Before ‘Not Like Us,’ Lamar hit Drake with ‘6:16 in LA’, a direct follow-up to his first diss track ‘Euphoria’, which many found underwhelming. The same night, Drake released ‘Family Matters.’ The track’s music video shows a 1996 Chrysler Town & Country (the same make and model of the car displayed on the cover art of Good Kid, m.A.A.d City’s deluxe edition) being taken to the junkyard and crushed.