Top Dawg CEO says Drake and Kendrick Lamar “battle is over”, but “a win for the culture”

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Top Dawg CEO says Drake and Kendrick Lamar “battle is over”, but “a win for the culture”

Top Dawg Entertainment CEO Anthony “Top Dawg” Tiffith took to Twitter last week to announce that the long-standing feud between rappers Drake and Kendrick Lamar was over. In a tweet promoting the upcoming TDE 20th anniversary compilation album, Tiffith declared that the battle between the two artists was “a win for the culture” and that they had proven naysayers wrong. He went on to state that the label was now focused on wrapping up the album.

The first-ever TDE compilation album was hinted at by Jay Rock in a December interview with the Associated Press. Rock, who has been a member of the Black Hippy supergroup for over 15 years, announced that the album would feature a majority of Black Hippy and was set to be released at the top of the year. Other signees on the TDE roster include SZA, Reason, Isaiah Rashad, Doechii, Ab-Soul, Lance Skiiiwalker, Zacari, Ray Vaughn, and SiR. While Kendrick Lamar left the label in 2022 to launch his own creative agency, pgLang, he is expected to feature on the upcoming album.

The feud between Drake and Lamar was reignited earlier this year when Lamar called the former out on “Like That” from Metro Boomin and Future’s joint album, “We Don’t Trust You.” Drake fired back with two tracks, “Push Ups” and “Taylor Made Freestyle,” on which he included A.I.-generated verses from Snoop Dogg and Tupac. Lamar responded with the six-minute-long “Euphoria,” followed by “6:16 in LA,” “Meet The Grahams,” and “Not Like Us,” which became the most streamed rap song on Spotify and topped the charts. Drake claimed on “The Heart Part 6” that he had fed Lamar false information, which had led to the song.

Several people were arrested for trespassing on Drake’s property, dubbed The Embassy, following the release of “Not Like Us.” A bodyguard was also hospitalised after being shot outside the Toronto mansion. While it is unclear if the incidents were related to Drake’s feud with Lamar, the heightened media presence led to Drake asking a local news helicopter to stop flying over The Embassy. Questlove and Vince Staples weighed in on the feud, with the former stating that “hip-hop is truly dead,” and the latter claiming that Black music “deserves better.

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