The Proxy War for Hip-Hop’s Soul Isn’t Over

Just when it seemed the talk about the Kendrick Lamar-vs.-Drake beef had finally simmered down following the concert last month that some (me) considered the latter’s funeral, a video for Lamar’s massive hit “Not Like Us” dropped on July Fourth. The Compton native used Independence Day to remind Drake that he isn’t an American, just as Lamar had leveraged his Juneteenth “Ken and Friends” concert in Inglewood to drive home his argument that his opponent isn’t Black in the way that most of his hip-hop peers are.

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