Kendrick Lamar is giving his opinion. Again.
A week and a half after Drake released two songs dissing the Compton-born rapper, diss tracks Drake released after Lamar's attack. him last month on the song “Like That” – Lamar returned to his problem on Tuesday with a new song he posted on YouTube called “Euphoria.”
It's a long, detailed catalog of criticism that largely revolves around what Lamar sees as Drake's inauthenticity and his anxieties as a biracial person.
“You're not a rap artist, you're a hustler artist hoping to get accepted,” Lamar raps over a simmering soul beat in the song's intro. “Tommy Hilfiger stood out, but FUBU was never your collection.” Later, after the song's beat begins, Lamar asks, “How many more fairy tale stories about your life until we have enough?” / How many more black features until you finally feel like you're black enough? He also says that he hates the way Drake walks, talks and dresses.
“I even hate it when you say the ‘n—’ word,” he adds, “but I guess that’s just me.”
“Euphoria” comes after Drake’s “Push Ups” and “Taylor Made Freestyle,” in which Drake mocked Lamar for collaborating with Maroon 5 and accused him of taking orders from Taylor Swift. “Taylor Made Freestyle” used artificial intelligence to emulate the voices of Tupac Shakur and Snoop Dogg; Drake removed the track from social media, according to Billboard, after the late Shakur's estate threatened legal action against the Canadian rapper.
“Euphoria” is the first solo song Lamar has released since his 2022 Grammy-winning album “Mr. “Morale and big steps.” “Like That,” a collaboration with Future and Metro Boomin, appeared on their joint album “We Don't Trust You”; Before that, Lamar teamed up with his cousin Baby Keem for their 2023 single “The Hillbillies.”
