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The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the "beef" between Kendrick Lamar and Drake (both pictured) dates back to the 2013 song "Control"?

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Laxmi (May 7, 2024). ""Made J. Cole look like he died in the war": Drake vs Kendrick Lamar Rap Battle Gets a World War 2 Styled Wikipedia Update That No One Saw Coming". fandomwire.com. Retrieved May 7, 2024. While Wikipedia might not always be the most trusted source of information, the renowned website has recently caught the attention of fans for a page chronicling the details and timeline of the rap battle between Drake and Kendrick Lamar.
Ms Sharmin (May 7, 2024). ""THE DRAKE/KENDRICK LAMAR FEUD GOES WIKIPEDIA EPIC". hypefresh.com. Retrieved May 8, 2024. This struggle, for which the concept of "rivalry" is not enough, is presented in the wiki as a historical event, the chronicle of which is organized according to the principle of war.

Ongoing

Is it really ongoing? I feel like it's been over after not like us 77roundz (talk) 21:28, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Kendrick included a song titled "Heart Pt. 6" on his new album. Should this be included as a related song? Title is in direct reference. 98.143.66.199 (talk) 05:22, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Feud is still ongoing. Drake is currently threatening to sue Kendrick for defamation over the diss track "not like us." Even threatening to sue his own label for alleged bots for "not like is" which UMG stated is "offensive and untrue."

This feud is far from over due to the legal stakes introduced. Craftedpixel2 (talk) 02:18, 28 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

As of the time of writing, Kendrick has now won five grammys for Not Like Us - the first diss track to ever win any grammys and the most awards ever for a single rap song (not to mention as many grammys as drake has won ever). Despite Drake's attempts to win this battle in the legal sphere, I feel like we can more than reasonably claim that Kendrick won a decisive victory on the cultural front that all rap feuds have taken place in until Drake decided to pull a lawyer into one. LemmaEOF (talk) 10:47, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Infobox parties

The parties section in the infobox currently implies that there was a coordinated effort between Kendrick Lamar, the Weeknd, Rick Ross, and Kanye West to take down Drake. This isn't true, and shows that the current criteria for being in a party is too broad. Would we include Black Country, New Road if a song on their upcoming album had a lyric about Drake? If we need to have the parties list, it would be better to only include close associates and producers who worked on the tracks, so that one side is Drake/J. Cole/Boi-1da and the other side is Kendrick/Mustard/Future/Metro Boomin. Or we could get rid of it entirely. – MW_(t•c) 01:26, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

NPR verdict

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/12/g-s1-48276/kendrick-lamar-super-bowl-game-winner

Headline: Almost a year after the battle, Kendrick Lamar has won the war jengod (talk) 22:31, 12 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A review on recent additions

Recently, the article has jumped from ~150k bytes to 180k. I find some of the information added to be rather unnecessary for an article about the whole feud in general, with additional considerations that it might not be written in wikivoice. What do others think? CorrectionsJackal (correct me) 09:18, 17 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Uncensoring Lamar's verse

Lamar's verse should be uncensored per WP:NOTCENSORED. I can't do this because my edit is being flagged as disruptive. Dabmasterars (talk) 18:02, 28 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

See e.g. Special:Diff/1277825602. — Chrisahn (talk) 18:11, 28 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, so it's featured twice on the same page. I'm just gonna revert it then. Dabmasterars (talk) 18:18, 28 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I already did. :-) — Chrisahn (talk) 18:19, 28 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]