On their simultaneously released diss tracks, “Family Matters” and “Meet the Grahams,” Drake and Kendrick Lamar go personal.

Drake and Kendrick Lamar are still at odds over language, but this time it’s personal. Following the release of the latter’s new diss track, “6:16 in LA,” earlier this morning, both rappers issued reaction songs on Friday night, May 3, Drake with “Family Matters” and Kendrick Lamar with “Meet the Grahams.”
Drake started out with “Family Matters,” in which the plot takes a rather personal turn. “You mentioned my seed now deal with his dad,” the seven-minute single from the Toronto native opens with. “I have to go bad, I have to go bad.”

He shoots Lamar from a distance on the track, taking aim at both his opponent and his fiancée Whitney Alford. Referring to Kendrick Lamar’s 2012 song “Money Trees,” he says, “Don’t even go back to your hood and plant no money trees.” “You the Black messiah wifing up a mixed queen / Say you hate the girls I fuck, but what you really mean is that I been with Black and White and everything in between / And hit vanilla cream to help out with your self-esteem.”
The discussion of their kids, which Kendrick Lamar already broached on last week’s diss single “Euphoria,” further muddies the waters. “We could have excluded the children from this; don’t hold it against me,” he sings, “Why you never hold your son and tell him say cheese.” He makes the claim that Dave Free, Lamar’s longtime creative collaborator, is the real father of one of his two children, a boy and a girl.
Drake makes an appearance at the New Ho King Chinese restaurant in the music video for “Family Matters,” while Kendrick Lamar mentions it on his song “Euphoria.” “Kendrick just opened his mouth / Where is your Uncle at / Cause I wanna talk to the man of the house / Someone go hand him a Grammy right now,” he sneers.
Then he brings up the stop and desist letter that Drake received from Tupac Shakur’s estate over “Taylor Made Freestyle,” in which the late rapper’s voice was recreated using artificial intelligence. Drake claims on “Family Matters” that Lamar incited the estate to retaliate against Drake, who had taken the song off from social media immediately after they had threatened to sue him.
“You called the Tupac estate and begged them to sue me and take that shit down. A cease and desist is for hoes. Can’t listen to lies that come out of your mouth.” He ends by making a menacing allusion to their kids: “Our sons should go play at the park / Unless you don’t want to be seen with anyone that is Blacker than you, that shit would be cute / With two light-skinned kids.”
On “Meet the Grahams,” Lamar went even more personal. Every lyric on the song is directed specifically at members of Drake’s family, including father Dennis, mother Sandra, son Adonis, and perhaps a girl who Drake has never mentioned. To be honest, Adonis, I apologise that guy is your father. He starts, “Your dad is not receptive; it takes a guy to be a man. “I regret that you have to grow up and then stand behind him, but I look at him and wish your grandpa had worn a condom.”
He addresses his parents in his second stanza. “Dear Sandra, with all the girls that are hurting in this climate, I hope you don’t undermine your son’s habits.” He then turns to his father, saying that he “raised a horrible fuckin’ person” and that he “gave birth to a master manipulator.”
Then he speaks about Drake supposedly having a “baby girl” that he had kept a secret. When you are eleven, he ought to be teaching you about timetables, watching ‘Frozen,’ or singing poetry to you. Instead, he’s in Turks, paying for sex and popping Percs.”
For those who have been following the beef, this has been quite the roller coaster. Lamar’s shots at Drake and J. Cole for their remarks about their “First Person Shooter” on “Like That” set the whole thing off. Since then, the fight has grown quickly, encompassing everyone from Metro Boomin and Rick Ross to Future and The Weeknd.

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