A very eventful weekend in the war between Drake and Kendrick Lamar finally came to an end last night with the release of “THE HEART PART 6,” Drake’s response to Kendrick’s “meet the grahams” and “Not Like Us.” On those two tracks, Lamar accuses Drake of hiding an 11-year-old daughter and being a pedophile (among other things), and Drake addresses both allegations on this latest song, which borrows its title from Lamar’s famed “Heart” series.
After producer Boi-1da’s clever sample of Aretha Franklin’s 1967 song “Prove It,” Drake opens “THE HEART PART 6” by rebutting Kendrick’s claim that he’s a snitch who’s helped the police in past investigations. Drake insists that, if this were true, the world would’ve heard about it by now.
The Pulitzer Prize winner is definitely spiralin'
I got your fucking lines tapped, I swear that I’m dialed in
First, I was a rat, so where’s the proof of the trial then?
Where’s the paperwork or the cabinet it’s filed in?
1090 Jake would’ve took all the walls down
Next, Drake turns to the idea that he’s hiding an 11-year-old daughter, one of the big reveals on Kendrick’s “meet the grahams.” Drake says his team was responsible for giving Kendrick that bogus intel, and that Lamar ran with the story before checking its validity.
We plotted for a week and then we fed you the information
A daughter that’s eleven years old, I bet he takes it
We thought about giving a fake name or a destination
But you so thirsty, you not concerned with investigation
Drake contrasts Kendrick’s apparently false reporting with the scandalous information included in his own song “Family Matters.” On that track, Drake accuses Kendrick of beating his fiancée, Whitney, and suggests that one of Lamar’s children might have been fathered by Dave Free, Kendrick’s PGLang co-founder. The single artwork for “The Heart Part 6” is a screengrab of Free responding to an IG post from Whitney about Kendrick’s kids with a heart emoji.
What about the bones we dug up in that excavation?
And why isn’t Whitney denyin' all of the allegations?
Why is she following Dave Free and not Mr. Morale?
You haven’t seen the kids in six months, the distance is wild
Dave leaving heart emojis underneath pics of the child
A few lines later, Drake denies Kendrick’s allegations of pedophilia and suggests Lamar is projecting some of the traumas he discusses on his 2022 song “Mother I Sober.”
Ahh, wait a second, that’s that one record where you say you got molested
Aw, fuck me, I just made the whole connection
This about to get so depressin'
This is trauma from your own confessions
This when your father leave you home alone with no protection, so neglected
That’s why these pedophile raps is shit you so obsessed with, it’s so excessive
He then says that he’s way too big a celebrity to get away with trafficking underage girls.
I never been with no one underage but now I understand why this the angle that you really mess with
Just for clarity, I feel disgusted, I’m too respected
If I was fucking young girls, I promise I’d have been arrested
I’m way too famous for this shit you just suggested
In the spoken-word outro, Drake takes pride in the fact he got Kendrick writing so vigorously. But he again insists that everything Lamar has spouted thus far is untrue.
You know, at least your fans are gettin' some raps out of you
I’m happy I could motivate you
Bring you back to the game, like
You know, but
Just let me know when we’re gettin' to the facts
Everything in my shit is facts
I’m waitin' on you to return the favor, like
Did Drake make a convincing case? Read all the lyrics to “THE HEART PART 6” and make up your own mind.
