For more than a decade, Drake and Kendrick Lamar have had an ongoing feud. It wasn’t always like this, as they’ve collaborated in a couple of songs. In 2013, Kendrick Lamar was featured on Big Sean’s song “Control,” and during his verse, he dissed several rappers, including J. Cole, Drake, Meek Mill, and more. Following this, Drake would write his first diss to Lamar on his song, “The Language,” . and from then on, both rappers would throw several shots at each other in the form of subliminals. As their arguments have now grown to a larger scale, there have been comparisons to the beef with Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G..  Juniors Joshua Troung and Michael Kwok believe that Lamar is the one “winning the battle.”

Back in October, Drake released a song named “First Person Shooter,” featuring J. Cole, who had unintentionally insulted Lamar. Lamar later directly attacked Cole and Drake during his verse in Metro Boomin’s “Like That.”

Cole would respond to Lamar’s attacks with his mixtape “Might Delete Later” with the song “7 Minute Drill.” Cole responded to Kendrick by attacking his image and his music. He called Lamar’s first album, “good kid, m.A.A.d city,” a classic but named his most recent album, “Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers,” a tragedy. The entire track was a diss towards Kendrick. On April 7, Cole would publicly announce while on tour that the song didn’t sit right with him and disturbed his peace; and on April 12, Cole removed the song from all streaming platforms. 

Ultimately when it comes to the question: “Who won?,” it’s probably KDOT (Kendrick) who won this entire dispute. Lamar’s songs were more intense, had better lyrics, and were just overall better disses than what Drake’s four songs he made during this whole situation.