Drake has seemingly called out some friends who didn’t support him amid his feud with Kendrick Lamar.
Lamar and Drake have been involved in a public rivalry for years, which intensified in 2024 with a series of diss-tracks exchanged between the two chart-topping rappers.
However, the Canadian star isn’t done yet and, on July 4, dropped a new track which seems to reference their battle.
In the surprise single, “What Did I Miss?,” he questions how “people [he] loves” are no longer standing by him, calling them “traitors.” He also warned them not to ask him for any favors after this betrayal.
“I don’t give a f*** if you love me / I don’t give a f*** if you like me/ Askin’ me ‘How did it feel?’ / Can’t say it didn’t surprise me / Last time I looked to my right/ You n***** was standing beside me,” Drake sings in the chorus before asking: “What did I miss?”
In the second verse, Drake seems to directly reference Lamar’s brutal, Grammy-winning diss-track “Not Like Us,” which he performed five time at June 2024 show.
“I'm back in your city tonight, walkin' around with my head high / I saw bro went to Pop Out with them,” Drake rapped. “It feels like nobody's there until you start givin' out two-tones / And nobody cares until they in front of your tombstone.”
He continued: “Y'all been on that type of timing for too long / Iceman, Tiffany blue stones / I done made plenty s*** right out of two wrongs, s***, let's go.”
Later in the song, Drake takes aim at friends who didn’t support him during the feud.
“When I was looking at y’all and cooking with y’all / And giving out verses and bookings to y’all / Making sure wires were hit / Man, what did I miss? / When you was all in my crib lookin’ at h*** / Word for word at all of the shows / You always felt like this, man?” he sings.
The new track was launched ahead of Drake’s highly anticipated album, which is rumored to be called Iceman. A release date has yet to be confirmed.
In February this year, Lamar broke some major music records in the U.S. and UK with his track “Not Like Us”, which he also performed at the Super Bowl.
However, one month before the showcase event, Drake accused Universal Music Group Recordings Inc – which both he and Lamar are signed to – of spreading the “false and malicious narrative” that he is a pedophile in the hit song. Lamar’s song includes lyrics like: “Say, Drake, I hear you like em’ young” and “certified lover boy? certified pedophiles.”
Lamar is not named in the lawsuit. However, Drake additionally claimed that UMG knew the accusations we false but chose corporate greed over the safety and well-being of its artists.
In March, UMG filed a motion to dismiss Drake’s defamation lawsuit, writing: “Plaintiff, one of the most successful recording artists of all time, lost a rap battle that he provoked and in which he willingly participated.”
Drake doubled down on his defamation suit against UMG in April, claiming in an amended complaint that the fact Lamar agreed to censor the word “pedophiles” during his Super Bowl performance proves the reference is defamatory.
“The NFL, as well as the corporate entities responsible for the televised and streaming broadcasts of the Super Bowl Performance, all understood the words ‘certified pedophile’ to be unacceptable in a broadcast to millions of listeners,” the complaint reads. “Notwithstanding that apparent consensus, UMG continues to publish the recording absent the censoring that even Kendrick Lamar deemed acceptable for the Super Bowl Performance.”
