Ranking ‘Euphoria’ and the 5 best disses at Drake

Kendrick Lamar and Drake have gone back and forth with some explosive diss tracks, as each superstar rapper takes aim at each other in this massive hip-hop beef.

In a run that started a few months ago, with a Kendrick verse on the song “Like That” featuring Future, these two modern hip-hop legends have feuded multiple times. This beef has attracted some of hip-hop’s biggest names in addition to Kendrick and Drake.

Multiple rappers and music artists, including A$AP Rocky, J. Cole, Rick Ross, The Weeknd and even Kanye West, have blasted the Toronto rapper since Kendrick’s verse on “Like That” from Future and Metro’s record Boomin disappeared in March. titled We don’t trust you.

This whole reference goes back to the song “First Person Shooter”, featuring J. Cole and Drake. J. Cole mentions in a verse on the hit track that he, Drake and Kendrick are the big three in the modern rap game.

Kendrick responded to Cole with his verse on “Like That,” which seemingly came out of the blue on Future and Metro’s We don’t trust you when it was released in late March 2024. When “First Person Shooter” came out last October, it didn’t seem like much of an insult for J. Cole to include Kendrick in the “big three” conversation in rap.

But Kendrick clearly wanted no part of that equation between him and J. Cole and Drake.

Drake and J. Cole both released diss tracks to Kendrick in the weeks following the release of “Like That.” J. Cole released “7 Minute Drill” on his improvised mixtape May delete later. But J. Cole quickly retracted his diss track aimed at Kendrick. Just a few days later, he apologized for the diss track during his headlining set at Dreamville Fest.

About a week after J. Cole retracted his response and removed “7 Minute Drill” from streaming services, Drake’s response to “Like That” was leaked on April 13. Drake called out not only Kendrick but all the rappers who recently featured him on the song “Push-ups.”

Drake later released the song in full on streaming services on April 19.

On the same day Drake dropped “Push Ups” on streaming services, he doubled down on his attacks on Kendrick with the song “Taylor Made Freestyle.” Drake played some creative mind games with Kendrick with a controversial use of Tupac and Snoop Dogg’s AI voices, while saying Kendrick was tied to a release schedule from Taylor Swift, for the sequel to “Push Ups.”

While Drake was pressing Kendrick for a response to “Taylor Made Freestyle” and with some regular social media posts, the Compton rapper was busy preparing the six-minute diss “Euphoria.” Kendrick had a double-diss of his own, following up the release of “Euphoria” (which dropped on Kendrick’s IG page on April 30) by dropping “6:16 in LA” a few days later.

As it stands now, the ball is in Drake’s court to respond. Kendrick’s diss track “Euphoria” spent two days at No. 1 on the Spotify USA Daily Songs charts and the iTunes Store charts, ahead of Drake’s “Push Ups.”

Kendrick seems to have the upper hand at the moment. But Drake came up with a solid response once and he was able to do it again.

However, Kendrick is far from the first rapper to feud with Drake. These two have a long history of beef, something that is common for the founder of the OVO record label. It seems like Drake has collaborated with almost everyone in the rap industry over the past decade.

Here’s a ranking of the five best diss songs aimed at Drake from the past decade.

Kendrick was far from the only rapper Future and Metro recruited to diss Drake in their two-album saga We Don’t trust youAnd We still don’t trust you. About the sequel to We don’t trust youA$AP Rocky jumped on “Show of Hands” with Future to send more shots Drake’s way.

A$AP responded to multiple Drake references in his songs over the course of the year, which are believed to have discussed his feelings from his past relationship with Rihanna. Rocky and Rihanna have been dating for the past few years and have two children together.

However, Drake and Rihanna were rumored to have dated at least once in the past decade. Drake has been sending subliminal shots to Rihanna over the years since their rumored relationship ended in mid-to-late 2010.

“N****s swear they whine the worst, I just wrapped the worst
N****s in their feelings about women, what, did you get hurt or something?
I hit him before you were born, son, Flacko hit him first, son
I still don’t trust you, it’s always us, never them
I heard you dropped the last of your stuff
Funny how it just came and went”

– A$AP Rocky on ‘Show Hands’

A$AP took shots at Drake’s subliminal disses towards Rihanna in his verse on “Show of Hands.” He also implies that it is Drake’s last project For all dogshas aged badly.

Kendrick’s follow-up to “Euphoria” was a surprise drop on his Instagram on May 3, titled “6:16 in LA.” There are multiple references that the song title has been associated with on Genius and social media, including Father’s Day and Tupac’s birthday.

This song doesn’t have as many direct shots at Drake as Kendrick’s first response to “Euphoria,” but it still has just as many funny bars and intelligent shots at the Toronto rapper as you’d expect on any song from him.

“6:16 in LA” has more laid-back and consistent production and tone to the songwriting on the song than we get with Kendrick’s multiple beat changes and aggressive delivery on “Euphoria.”

The song that started it all in 2024, before the back and forth between Kendrick and Drake in one of the biggest hip-hop hits of all time. “Like That” not only delivers a great verse from Kendrick, breaking away from the “big three” conversation with Drake and J. Cole, but also features a great performance from Future and a top-notch Metro beat.

“If he walks around with that stick, it’s not André 3K
You think I won’t drop the location? I still have PTSD
Motherf**k the big three, nigga, it’s just a big me’

– Kendrick Lamar on ‘Like That’

Kendrick also stands out with the power of his discography in a more timeless sense compared to the come-and-go album cycles that Drake implies, such as with his last studio album, For all dogs.

‘What? I’m really like that
And your best work is a light suit
N***a, Prince survived Mike Jack’
N***a, boom
Before all your dogs are buried
That’s a K with all these nines, he’s going to Pet Sematary (yeah)’

– Kendrick Lamar on ‘Like That’

The direct response to Drake’s “Push Ups” and the “Taylor Made Freestyle,” Kendrick’s “Euphoria” arrived in a surprise drop on YouTube on April 30. Kendrick takes dozens of shots at Drake, ranging from his abilities as a father to the oft-discussed accusations that Drake is a “culture vulture.”

‘Then give him the means to go through life day in and day out, you know nothing about that
Teach him morals, integrity, discipline, listen, man, you don’t know anything about that
If you speak the truth and consider what God is considering, you know nothing about it.”

– Kendrick Lamar on “Euphoria”

One thing Kendrick makes clear is that he personally doesn’t like Drake. He has no intention of mending any broken fences with Drake and he doesn’t care how he is perceived in the scope of the “big three” conversation.

‘I hate the way you walk, the way you talk, I hate the way you dress
Surprised you wanted that feature request
You know we have some things to discuss
I even hate it when you say the word ‘n***a’, but that’s just me, I guess
Some are just chilling, it doesn’t even have to be deep I guess’

– Kendrick Lamar on “Euphoria”

There’s so much to parse through Kendrick’s lyrics and the dozens of shots at Drake on “Euphoria.” We won’t go into all of this.

But Kendrick diving so deep with a diss towards Drake makes it even more compelling to see what moves God makes next in this battle.

In many ways, Pusha T set the standard for modern diss tracks in hip-hop. The standard of a good diss track was no longer just about the lyrics and delivery rappers sent each other in beefs.

When Pusha T revealed to the entire world that Drake had a child in “The Story of Adidon,” the Toronto rapper’s image in the public eye changed forever. Pusha T says in “The Story of Adidon” that Drake had a child with a porn star that he tried to keep hidden from the public eye.

“You’re hiding a child, let that boy come home
Deadbeat mothaf***a playing border patrol, ooh
Adonis is your son
And he deserves more than an Adidas press run; that is real
Love that baby, respect that girl
Forget she’s a star, let her be your world, yuugh!”

– Pusha T on “The Story of Adidon”

King Push also takes shots at Drake’s inner circle, which includes his producer 40 and his former boss at Young Money, Birdman.

‘OVO 40, bent over like he 80 – tap, tap, tap
How much time does he have? That man is sick, sick, sick

– Pusha T on “The Story of Adidon”

“The Story of Adidon” was Pusha T’s response to Drake’s diss track for him called “Duppy Freestyle” in an ongoing multi-year beef with Drake. The first response we got from Drake on video that directly addressed what Push said on “The Story Adidon” came in late 2019 with the Rap Radar podcast.

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