In the big rap beef, Kendrick Lamar completely outplayed Drake, but it was the many major mistakes made by Drake that led to his loss.
First of all, Kendrick is simply a better musician than Drake. While Kendrick’s music is filled with powerful messages and delivery, Drake’s music is designed to be soulless mall music.
In all of his tracks, Kendrick’s delivery made his disses a lot more memorable than Drake’s. His pacing also outmatched Drake’s. He responded so quickly to Drake’s disses that there was no time for any of the insults in Drake’s tracks to be really analyzed.
Drake’s first big mistake was choosing to respond to “Like That” with AI generated vocals of Snoop Dog and Tupac Shakur on “Taylor Made Freestyle.” Not only is it disrespectful to Tupac’s legacy, but it also resulted in Drake being forced to take it down by Tupac’s estate. His first track was quite the embarrassing failure. It is also very hypocritical of him to use AI voices in his song when he criticized Ice Spice’s use of an AI voice of him in her song “Munch.”
His second mistake was overextending on “Family Matters.” He chose to respond to all of the musicians against him, and it stretched his diss too thinly. He has enough resources to make many tracks, but in the course of trying to look cool, he weakened his position too much.
“The Heart Part 6” was the final mistake for Drake. The only successful part of this track was ruining Kendrick’s “The Heart”series by attaching this poor excuse for a song to the name.
Drake tried to rebut Kendrick’s “A minor” line, but he plays a G-sharp while saying “You mentionin’ A minor.”
He then says that Kendrick “gotta B sharp,” but there is no B sharp chord. Drake also spends the entire track poorly trying to defend himself from the allegations dished out by Kendrick, resulting in a sad attempt at a clean-up as his final track in the diss.
