There have been several rap battles in the history of hip-hop music that caught the attention of people worldwide. Some of these include Jay Z vs. Nas, 2Pac vs. Biggie, Ice Cube vs. N.W.A., Boogie Down Productions vs. Juice Crew, Kool Moe Dee vs. Busy Bee, Eazy-E vs. Dr. Dre, and Eminem vs. Benzino/The Source, as the top rap battles of all time. Now, raising the stakes a new battle that has made it to this list is of between the Compton native, Kendrick Lamar, and the Toronto native, Drake.

This has now caught the attention of entities belonging to the NBA and the WNBA.

Caitlin Clark’s boyfriend Connor McCaffery picks sides

Connor McCaffery has chosen his side in the ongoing musical battle between rappers Drake and Kendrick Lamar the moment he hit that like button on these posts shared on X, featuring Drake’s new single. Recently, the two have taken the internet by storm, releasing back-to-back singles dissing each other’s version revolving around the issue of who out of these two is the current holder of hip-hop’s crown.

Yesterday morning brought with it a song capable of initiating a domino effect with the two rappers fighting a lyrical battle that seems to have gone too far. Kendrick Lamar released his new track called ‘6:16 in LA’ yesterday, dissing Drake.

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In his song, Lamar calls out Drake for being an absent father when he sings, “You lied about your son, you lied about your daughter, huh, you lied about them other kids that’s out there hoping that you come,” indicating that Drake has a daughter who is not known to the world.

As the day matured, Drake released another track later on Friday night called, ‘Family Matters’, which was again dissed by Lamar in his response tracks called, ‘Euphoria’ and ‘Meet the Grahams’. Taking things down to personal town, Drake rapped in stern lyrics that went, “You mentioned my seed now deal with his dad. I gotta go bad, I gotta go bad.”

Things went to another level of crazy when Drake sings, “Say you hate the girls I f*ck but what you really mean / I been with Black and white and everything in between / You the Black messiah wifing up a mixed queen / And hit vanilla cream to help out with your self-esteem.”

To this, Lamar sang a comeback verse which goes, “You f—ed up the minute you called out my family’s name. You got gambling problems, drinking problems, pill-popping and spending problems, bad with money, wh*re house/ Therapy’s a lovely start.”

Tensions have escalated with plenty of rumors, personal attacks have added to unmatched levels, and with this came crazy responses from people including an interesting response from the NBA veterans. Let’s take a look.

Euphoria ‘Inside the NBA’

During the halftime report for the NBA’s playoff series’ Game 5 matchup between the LA Clippers and Dallas Mavericks, the TNT crew played one of Lamar’s latest tracks ‘Euphoria’. On hearing the song, former NBA champ Kenny Smith remarked, “C’mon man … Why y’all putting us in the middle of the rap beef? We gonna play one side, we gotta play the other side.”

Listening to Smith’s response, NBA legend Charles Barkley aka ‘Sir Charles’ took a sarcastic jab saying, “Rap beef… Grown-a** man,” while Shaquille O’Neal enjoyed the song calling out the DJ on the set.