Drake has a really bizarre response to Kendrick Lamar’s pedophile accusation in latest diss track

Drake and Kendrick Lamar are in an all-out war right now, one that seems to have gone a lot further than any recent standard rap beef. While it’s clearly not over just yet (and likely won’t be for a while, with the rate Kendrick seems to be able to produce), projected loser Drake fired the most recent shot with “The Heart Part 6" last night, a weak and mean track that likely won’t gain him any of his lost ground.

There’s a lot to process here, so first a quick refresher: Drake and Kendrick have been firing volleys for years, but this particular battle started in March, when Kendrick claimed he wasn’t a part of the “Big Three” with Drake and J. Cole (“Motherfuck the big three, n***, it’s just big me”) on the track “Like That” with Future and Metro Boomin. It all blew up from there. Drake fired back on “Push Ups” and then again on “Taylor Made Freestyle,” using an A.I.-generated voice of Tupac Shakur to do his dirty work for him. Bad idea. Kendrick followed up with a six-minute screed called “euphoria” (a nod to the HBO series, which Drake produces), that seemed vicious at the time, but pales in comparison to “meet the grahams” and “Not Like Us,” two more tracks the Pulitzer-prize winning artist dropped over the weekend. Lamar released these in response to “Family Matters,” a follow up from Drake implying that Kendrick wasn’t the father of his child.

In response to Drake’s cannonball, Kendrick went straight for the nukes. In “meet the grahams,” written as a series of speeches to different members of Drake’s family, Kendrick accuses his opponent of being an absentee father, having a secret daughter who doesn’t know about him, taking Ozempic, and being a predator. (“You son’s a sick man with sick thoughts, I think n*** like him should die/Him and Weinstein should get fucked in a cell for the rest they life.”) In “Not Like Us” he doubles down, especially on that last claim: “Certified Lover Boy? Certified pedophiles… tryna strike a chord and it’s probably A-minor.”

While it feels almost useless to try to address allegations of this magnitude in song form, Drake did try—“try” being the operative word here. In his response, “The Heart Part 6" (a reference to Kendrick’s ongoing song series), Drake introduces his denial of Kendrick’s accusations by rapping, “This Epstein angle was the shit I expected,” which is sort of an odd thing to say if you’re surprised to be called a pedophile—as anyone who isn’t a pedophile should really be! He goes on to say that he’s “way too famous” to be interested in children and that if he was, he “promise[s] I’d have been arrested.” He also pulls a potential Freudian slip and name-drops Millie Bobby Brown—a figure Kendrick notably never mentioned—who he was accused of grooming while she was a teenager a few years ago.

Perhaps the cherry on top of this whole mess is that Drake goes as far as to outright claim that Kendrick is only projecting his accusations because he was molested as a child. “That’s that one record where you say you got molested/Aw, fuck me, I just made the whole connection,” Drake says. “This is trauma from your own confessions… That’s why these pedophile raps is shit you so obsessed with, it’s so excessive.” It’s all nasty work that likely won’t end anytime soon. Whenever it does, it seems it could be either with a Grammy or in a courtroom.