Fans React to Kendrick Lamar's Explosive Drake Diss '6:16 in LA ...

4 May 2024

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Fans React to Kendrick Lamars Explosive Drake Diss 616 in LA

Kendrick Lamar's "6:16 in LA" Drake Diss dropped out of the sky. See what fans had to say.

Kendrick Lamar surprised the rap world by hurling another bomb in Drake’s direction with “6:16 in LA” arriving on Friday (May 3).

The Al Green-sampling Drake diss track has yet to hit streaming services and is currently only available on Kendrick Lamar’s Instagram, but that didn’t stop fans from going ballistic Friday morning heading into the weekend.

K. Dot accuses Drake of having traitors inside the OVO camp leaking information to the opposition while name-dropping 6 God affiliates like Akademiks and Zack Bia.

“Have you ever thought that OVO was working for me?/ Fake bully, I hate bullies/ You must be a terrible person/ Everyone inside your team is whispering that you deserve it/ Can’t Toosie Slide up out of this one, it’s just gon’ resurface,” Lamar raps.

Fans, critics and more flooded social media with opinions of Kendrick’s surprise attack, with “6:16” arriving just three days after the scathing “Euphoria,” which served as the Compton legend’s response to Drake’s “Push Ups” diss.

“Kendrick don’t give two sh–s about you needing a club banger… This rider music. Underground rap fan heat,” Hot 97 host Ebro Darden wrote.

Another person saluted Akademiks being name-dropped on tracks by both sides in the war. “Akademiks being mentioned by both Drake and Kendrick Lamar in diss records is legendary. He’s apart of HipHop history, even if you love him or hate him, thats objectively a win for independent media,” they wrote.

While Spotify’s Carl Chery added: “Every now and then I hear people say Kendrick is too high brow and his lyrics are too hard to understand. I heard it a few times in the context of this battle. This is rap. You guys just have a low rap IQ.”

Some fans were left with their jaws on the floor after finding out that Taylor Swift’s frequent collaborator Jack Antonoff was a co-producer on “6:16 in LA.” (Drake poked at Lamar for working with Swift on “Push Ups.”) “So this track literally is Taylor Made Okay Kendrick I see you,” one Drake fan said on X.

The debate about who’s winning the Drake-Kendrick war is sure to rage on well into the weekend as fans await the 6 God’s next move — which better be his best move — in the battle.

Find more of the reactions to “6:16 in LA” below.

Kendrick don’t give two shits about you needing a club banger…

This rider music.

Underground rap fan heat.
— the Old Man Ebro (@oldmanebro) May 3, 2024

The title of '6:16 in LA' might be the QUINTUPLE entendre that Drake asked for ????????

• Kendrick Lamar drops the song at exactly 6:16am• 16th of June 2024 is father’s day in Canada• 16th of June 1972 Tupac Shakur was born• 16th of June 1994 OJ Simpsons murder trial… pic.twitter.com/q7sUA33Vat
— Hip Hop All Day (@HipHopAllDayy) May 3, 2024

This may be the last era of battle rap we see at a mainstream level. A lot of the new rappers solve their beef in the streets or they don’t care lyrically enough to engage. We gotta enjoy Drake & Kendrick while they here
— Naji (@NajiChill) May 3, 2024

looked deeper into the lyrics and found that kendrick lamar rushed for 616 yards during the first super bowl that was ever played on june 16, 1916

his QB? that's right — jesus christ.
— charles (“you look good” – andy reid) mcdonald (@FourVerts) May 3, 2024

Unlike many, I don’t think Kendrick even hates Drake. I think he just don’t take that nigga serious and is offended that somebody so lame is still walking around like they’re not a lame because they got bread and relationships they essentially paid for. We all know one of those.
— Lawrence Burney (@TrueLaurels) May 3, 2024

drake’s been rapping about his paranoia for years and years now and then kendrick drops a diss entirely of telling him “yeah your entire inner circle hates you and is giving me information” LMFAO
— ????????‍♂️ (@ziyanm_) May 3, 2024

Kendrick is living the dream of everyone who hates someone but didn’t really have a reason to go off until the person he hated opened his mouth.
— Joel D. Anderson ???? (@byjoelanderson) May 3, 2024

The craziest thing about that Kendrick song is Drake’s uncle is playing guitar on that Al Green song he sampled to diss him on. That’s extremely calculated on top of all of the other entendres.
— LAKIM (@LAKIMisAlive) May 3, 2024

Drake really want to diss everybody again. Kendrick life boring as hell. I know he got some shit on the rest of them. That 20 v 1 narrative was a winning strategy.
— ????®️ (@MADEREESE) May 3, 2024

If your girl believes Drake is winning right now, keep her. She’s a real a dummy????
— MrMajestrix (@MrMajestrix) May 3, 2024

Still tied, but Drake has the edge. 2-2
— Fw (@Relly__1) May 3, 2024