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The original was posted on /r/hobbydrama by /u/ToErrDivine on 2024-07-21 02:50:47+00:00.

Hi, everyone, welcome back to the Drake-Kendrick writeup. Previous posts can be found here and here. This is the point where we start getting into the more serious topics. This post is going to be talking about and mentioning the following potential triggers: domestic abuse, pedophilia, sex trafficking, sexual assault, child abandonment, and IDK, probably a partridge in a pear tree. Let’s get to it.

Act Four: Firing The Cannons- ‘Buried Alive Part 2’/‘Family Matters’

At this point, Drake was in a pretty precarious position. He was now full-on feuding with Kendrick Lamar, he’d gone out of his way to piss Lamar off, and it had absolutely worked. But he’d done that by disrespecting Tupac Shakur, who multiple commenters told me is practically revered as a god in the West Coast rap scene. If Drake thought the number of people gunning for him was unfair before, it was about to get a lot more slanted against him.

Basically, what I’m trying to say is that Drake had put himself in a position where everything was riding on his winning the feud. If he managed to pull off the win, his insulting Tupac would be regarded as an incredibly ballsy move, one that would give him serious cred as the guy who slagged off the West Coast’s god and survived. But if he lost, he’d be the guy who was stupid enough to think that slagging off Tupac was a smart move. So what he had to do now was win, and win decisively. He needed a master stroke, and it was called ‘Family Matters’.

Before we get to ‘Family Matters’, however, there’s something to cover first. I mentioned back at the start that Kendrick did one of the tracks on Drake’s album Take Care, ‘Buried Alive Interlude’. Well, as part of the promo for ‘Family Matters’, Drake remixed it and added new vocals in Kendrick’s cadence. So, let’s take a look at ‘Buried Alive Interlude, Part 2’.

In this parody, Drake does the following:

1: Says that he would have to be dead for Kendrick to supplant him as the number one rapper (‘For you to make it to the peak, peak/It’d have to be the death of me, death of me’)

2: Says that thirteen years after they met, Kendrick is embarrassed that he’s not on Drake’s level (‘Lookin’ in the mirror, still embarrassed’)

3: Tells him to stop saying that he knows stuff about Drake that he won’t say (‘Stop talkin’ how you gon’ spare us’)

4: Says that Kendrick acts like a toddler throwing a tantrum whenever the topic of Drake is brought up (‘React like an infant whenever I am mentioned’)

5: Says that Kendrick can only get people to pay attention to him and his music if some sort of conflict is involved, whether it’s writing music about social issues or feuding with another rapper (‘It’s like you need tension to get attention’)

6: Says that the real cause of all this is that Kendrick is jealous of Drake’s success (‘You always said how you wanna bury me alive/Jealousy disguised as your motherfuckin’ pride’)

7: Brings up the tour in 2012, but says that Kendrick was just riding Drake’s coat-tails (‘Took you on your first tour with us, tryna catch a vibe/I was headline, you was standin’ on the side/Brought you and that other hoe along for the ride/First time people lined up for your ass’)

8: Suggests either that A, Kendrick gets material for his songs off Twitter, or B, people on Twitter overanalyse Kendrick’s songs and gives them meanings that aren’t there (‘It feel like Twitter ghostwritin’ your reply’)

9: Says that the general response to Kendrick’s side of the feud is basically ‘Hey, good on you for trying’ (‘Streets out here talkin’ like, ‘At least a nigga tried’)

10: Asks why the feud took so long to happen if Kendrick felt this way a decade ago (‘It’s how you felt in 2011, why we wastin’ time?’)

11: And finally alludes to Kendrick talking about how becoming famous metaphorically kills your old self on the original interlude (‘Dreams come true, crodie, this is where you die’)

I haven’t seen a lot of people talk about ‘Buried Alive Part 2’, but I feel it was worth mentioning. With that done, let’s move on to the real topic: ‘Family Matters’.

Drake was gunning for blood on this one. ‘Family Matters’ is seven and a half minutes long, and he did not stint on the attacks. The thing is, though, he actually attacked multiple rappers, so it isn’t seven and a half minutes solely of attacks on Kendrick (thank Christ, this is already going to be too goddamn long as it is).

That being said, Drake doesn’t let up on Kendrick, so let’s do this. In ‘Family Matters’, Drake:

1: Makes it clear that he’s being as vicious as he is on this track because Kendrick keeps bringing up his son, which is a tad hypocritical given what Drake’s about to say (‘I’ve emptied the clip over friendlier jabs/You mentioned my seed, now deal with his dad/I gotta go bad, I gotta go bad’)

2: Brings up other rappers who have (or allegedly have) gang ties, thus calling out Kendrick’s comparative lack of street cred (‘You know who really bang a set? My nigga YG/You know who really bang a set? My nigga Chuck T [The Game]/You know who even bang a set out there is CB [Chris Brown]’)

3: Says that J Cole is the one who’s losing sleep over the feud, not Drake (‘And, nigga, Cole losin’ sleep on this, it ain’t me’)

4: Demands that Kendrick back up his allegations of Drake being a snitch with proof (‘You better have some paperwork or that shit fake tea/Can’t be rappin’ ‘bout no rattin’ that we can’t read’)

5: Suggests that Kendrick is only perpetuating the feud because he’s desperate for attention (‘Out here beggin’ for attention, nigga, say please’)

6: Suggests that Kendrick’s previous activism for Black rights is all a façade and he doesn’t really care about it (‘Always rappin’ like you ‘bout to get the slaves freed/You just actin’ like an activist, it’s make-believe’)

7: Says that Kendrick made it rich but hasn’t given any kind of monetary support to his hometown, though this one is easily proven false (‘Don’t even go back to your hood and plant no money trees’)

8: Interprets Kendrick’s line about ‘we hate the bitches you fuck’ as being about race so he can call Kendrick a hypocrite for insulting Drake for sleeping with women of all races when A, Kendrick’s fiancée is also biracial, and B, Kendrick admitted to cheating on her with white women (‘Say you hate the girls I fuck, but what you really mean? I been with Black and white and everything in between/You the Black messiah wifin’ up a mixed queen/And hit some vanilla cream to help out with your self-esteem’)

9: Suggests that Kendrick and Whitney, who were high-school sweethearts, haven’t been in love for a long time and are only staying together for the sake of Kendrick’s image (‘On some Bobby shit, I wanna know what Whitney need/All that puppy love was over in y’all teens’)

10: Asks why Kendrick has never appeared with his son in any of the photos released since he was born, which will come up again shortly… (‘Why you never hold your son and tell him, ‘Say cheese’?’)

11: Says that they could have left their families out of the feud, but Kendrick started it (‘We could’ve left the kids out of it, don’t blame me’)

12: Brings up Kendrick having previously cheated on his fiancée and put her through a lot of suffering in the process *points to the third disclaimer* (‘You a dog and you know it, you just play sweet/Your baby mama captions always screaming ‘Save me’/You did her dirty all your life, you tryna make peace’)

13: Alleges that Kendrick is not the actual father of his son, and that his son was actually fathered by Kendrick’s childhood friend and right-hand man, Dave Free (‘I heard that one of ‘em little kids might be Dave Free/Don’t make it Dave Free’s/‘cause if your GM is your BM secret BD/Then this all makin’ plenty fuckin’ sense to me’)

14: Tells Kendrick to just break up with Whitney (‘Ayyy, let that shorty breathe’)

15: Alleges that Whitney was unfaithful to Kendrick and will be unfaithful to him again in the future (‘Shake that ass for Drake, now shake that ass for free/Yeah, yeah/Well, not that kind of free, I’m talkin’ ‘bout my nigga Dave’)

16: Brings up Kendrick’s height again (‘He always said I overlooked him, I was staring straight/These bars go over Kenny head no matter what I say/I know you like to keep it short, so let me paraphrase’)

17: Says that Kendrick uses his cousin Baby Keem as a ghostwriter, and that the only Kendrick songs that become hits are the ones that Keem wrote- it should be noted that the title ‘Family Matters’ may be at least in part referencing ‘family ties’, Keem and Lamar’s song together (‘*K-Dot shit is only hitti…

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