Breaking Down All of Drake’s Shots at Kendrick (and Half the Rap Game)

It finally happened. After weeks of silence, Drake has responded to Kendrick Lamar’s “Like That” verse (and both of Future and Metro Boomin’s albums) with a diss song of his own. 

On Saturday morning, an unmixed version of the track mysteriously leaked online, causing many to question whether it was AI-generated or not. Then a new version of the song surfaced a few hours later, featuring a different beat, updated lyrics, and much better mixing, leading most people to assume that the track is real and will be officially released at any moment. 

The diss record is full of smoke for Kendrick, Future, Metro Boomin, Rick Ross, The Weeknd, and more. Over an ominous beat that sounds like something from the OG Halloween soundtrack, Drake takes aim at half the rap game for four minutes straight, even making a point to acknowledge that he’s facing a whole army of foes: “What the fuck is this, a twenty-V-one, nigga?”

In an initial leaked version of the track, Drake trashed the idea of a “Big 3,” rapping, “It’s me twice in my Big 3, I had to leave you out,” before bringing up a rumor that Kendrick’s been sitting on a diss record for a very long time: “You had a song for four years, drop that shit and shut your mouth.” Neither of these lines ultimately made it to the updated version of the song, but it still has a lot of jabs from Drake.

As Mike Tyson once said, “Everybody has a plan until they’re punched in the mouth,” but after Kendrick delivered the first blow, Drake has now responded with a whole song full of direct bars. Here’s a line-by-line breakdown of every person Drake dissed on the track.