Charlamagne Tha God Really, Really Wants Kendrick Lamar To Drop Drake Diss

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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - FEBRUARY 05: Kendrick Lamar accepts the Best Rap Album award for “Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers” onstage during the 65th GRAMMY Awards at Crypto.com Arena on February 05, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Johnny Nunez/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)
Is he just praying for Drizzy's downfall or does he want another great lyrical moment for the culture?

It's been almost a full week since Drake "dropped" his scathing diss track "Push Ups" at press time, taking aim at many targets. Chief among them was Kendrick Lamar, someone who notoriously stays away from the media and from really most forms of overt engagement. As such, it's not really surprising that he hasn't dropped a response track to the OVO mogul yet... but there's certainly a lot of pressure on him from the hip-hop world who knows that he basically started this. Whether the Compton lyricist will refrain from responding due to a change of heart, belief in his original "Like That" verse, not feeling like "Push Ups" was adequate (or even weak) enough to respond to is a question only for Father Time.

But many, like Charlamagne Tha God, want an answer expeditiously... and the conversation below is a really weird one that we'll try to keep focused on the Kendrick Lamar stuff in our transcription. "Where Dot at?" he told Andrew Schulz during a recent sit-down. "First of all, I'm the OG Drake hater. I'm an OG veteran Drake hater... If Kendrick comes with some s**t, I'ma come in here and give a fair analysis of that, too. If he comes in here with some s**t that's like 'Oh, s**t,' then yes, I'ma give it up for Kendrick, too.

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"Oh, my God, yo, Kendrick, please, Kendrick, you gotta drop," Charlamagne Tha God continued. "Kendrick, you on the clock, you see what you doing? You see what you doing to your fans? Kendrick! I don't know either, man. Kendrick, if you f**k around and don't drop this week or by this weekend, I don't know what's going to happen to your fans. I'ma still support you, I'ma still ride with you.

"You got to have your head up," he concluded. "I like hip-hop, I was listening this weekend like, 'Yes!' I like all this s**t, I like watching Drake do this. I like to watch Ross do this, I like watching Akademiks going crazy on the live, I like this s**t. Okay? I like watching this s**t, I love it, It's dope." Regardless of the debate, for more news and the latest updates on Charlamagne Tha God, Kendrick Lamar, and Drake, keep checking in with HNHH.

About The Author
Gabriel Bras Nevares is a staff writer for HotNewHipHop. He joined HNHH while completing his B.A. in Journalism & Mass Communication at The George Washington University in the summer of 2022. Born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Gabriel treasures the crossover between his native reggaetón and hip-hop news coverage, such as his review for Bad Bunny’s hometown concert in 2024. But more specifically, he digs for the deeper side of hip-hop conversations, whether that’s the “death” of the genre in 2023, the lyrical and parasocial intricacies of the Kendrick Lamar and Drake battle, or the many moving parts of the Young Thug and YSL RICO case. Beyond engaging and breaking news coverage, Gabriel makes the most out of his concert obsessions, reviewing and recapping festivals like Rolling Loud Miami and Camp Flog Gnaw. He’s also developed a strong editorial voice through album reviews, think-pieces, and interviews with some of the genre’s brightest upstarts and most enduring obscured gems like Homeboy Sandman, Bktherula, Bas, and Devin Malik.
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