Drake Taunts Kendrick Lamar Again on Diss Song With AI 2Pac and Snoop Dogg Verses

Yesterday
(April
19),

Drake
officially
released
the
new
song
“Push
Ups,”
his
response
to

Kendrick
Lamar’s
pointed
verse
on
the
chart-topping
“Like
That.”
He’s
followed
it
up
with
another
Lamar
taunt,
“Taylor
Made
Freestyle.”
The
track,
shared
on
social
media,
opens
with
verses
made
to
sound
like

2Pac
and

Snoop
Dogg.
A
third
verse
comes
from
Drake
without
obvious
artificial
intelligence
vocal
manipulation.
Find
the
“Taylor
Made
Freestyle”
on

X.

In
the
opening
verse,
the
AI
2Pac
goads
Kendrick
Lamar
into
responding
to
Drake.
“Kendrick,
we
need
ya,
the
West
Coast
savior/Engraving
your
name
in
some
hip-hop
history,”
the
voice
raps.
“Fuck
this
Canadian
light-skin,
Dot/We
need
a
no-debated
West
Coast
victory,
man.”

The
AI
Snoop
Dogg
continues
by
questioning
Lamar’s
street
credentials
while
also
encouraging
him
to
beef
with
Drake:
“I
know
you
never
been
to
jail,
or
wore
jumpsuits
and
shower
shoes/Never
shot
nobody,
never
stabbed
nobody/Never
did
nothing
violent
to
no
one,
it’s
the
homies
that
empower
you/But,
still,
you
gotta
show
this
fucking
owl
who’s
boss
on
the
West/Now’s
a
time
to
really
make
a
power
move.”

To
close
the
song,
Drake
disses
Lamar
more
and
also
praises
Taylor
Swift,
Lamar’s
“Bad
Blood”
collaborator
who

released
the
massive
double
album


The
Tortured
Poets
Department:
The
Anthology
hours
before
Drake’s
“Push
Ups”:
“But
now
we
gotta
wait
a
fucking
week
’cause
Taylor
Swift
is
your
new
Top/And
if
you
’bout
to
drop,
she
gotta
approve.”
He
adds
later,
“Yeah,
shoutout
to
Taylor
Swift/Biggest
gangster
in
the
music
game
right
now/You
know,
I
moved
my
album
when
she
dropped.”

Drake’s
evocation
of
2Pac
calls
to
mind
the
closing
track
on
Kendrick
Lamar’s


To
Pimp
a
Butterfly,
“Mortal
Man.”
On
that
song,
Lamar
used
archival
audio
of
2Pac
to
have
a
conversation
with
the
late
California
rapper.
Beyond
the
album,
Lamar
has
long

expressed
his
admiration
for
2Pac,
writing
to
him
in
2015,
“The
people
that
you
touched
on
that
small
intersection
changed
lives
forever.”

And
Drake’s
use
of
AI
Snoop
Dogg
vocals
has
already
gotten
a
response
from
the
real,
living
Snoop
Dogg.
The
Long
Beach
artist,
who
also
appeared
on

To
Pimp
a
Butterfly,
on
“Institutionalized,”
acknowledged
“Taylor
Made
Freestyle”
in

a
video
he
posted
on
social
media.
“They
did
what?
When?
How?
Are
you
sure?”
he
asks.
“Y’all
have
a
good
night.”

Kendrick
Lamar
reignited
a
feud
with
Drake
with
a
barbed
verse
on
Metro
Boomin
and
Future’s
“Like
That.”
The
track
prompted
a
response
from
J.
Cole,
another
target
on
the
track,
who
shared
his
own
“7
Minute
Drill.”
Cole
quickly
distanced
himself
from
the
beef,

apologizing
publicly
for
the
track
and

pulling
it
from
digital
streaming
platforms.