DJ Akademiks Thinks Kendrick Lamar's Camp Is Too Obsessed With The Drake Beef

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MANCHESTER, TENNESSEE - JUNE 16: Kendrick Lamar performs during the 2023 Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival on June 16, 2023 in Manchester, Tennessee. (Photo by Astrida Valigorsky/Getty Images)
DJ Akademiks wants to see pgLang and company on the charts, and isn't impressed with their presumed attempts to bait Drake into round two.

DJ Akademiks has been arguably the fieriest commentator amid the Kendrick Lamar and Drake beef, and his OVO repping keeps getting more and more heated. Moreover, he recently responded to shady Ab-Soul tweets and the general reception to the "Not Like Us" video, as well as rumors that either K.Dot or Drizzy are looking for a round two. Well, Ak has a pretty different perspective, accusing Kendrick's camp of milking this beef and trying to bait The Boy into another response. This rant seemingly occurred during the same livestream in which he trolled artists for not having or getting Kendrick features despite their participation in The Pop Out show or the aforementioned music video.

"So my last thoughts on this is a pathetic attempt, I believe, by pgLang and TDE to try to bait Drake out," DJ Akademiks remarked. "Talking about 'redemption is not off the table.' N***a, listen, call me the spokesperson for Drake or OVO, but I can tell you, n***a. Drake is gonna drop amazing music, it's gonna be good. If you think he gon' keep going back and forth with that n***a calling him a pedophile and lying, he's not. So move on, hurry along, and y'all go drop y'all music. See you n***as on the f***ing charts. That's it, okay? That's it. There's no more conversation, that's it."

DJ Akademiks Wants Kendrick Lamar To Stop "Milking" The Drake Beef

Of course, there are a lot of rumors around what Drake will drop next, with some like DJ Akademiks claiming that it won't have anything to do with Kendrick Lamar and others anticipating more shots. We won't really know until more new music comes out, but we doubt that the Toronto superstar wouldn't have a subliminal bar or two over this situation in the future. As for his Compton rival, perhaps his supposed new album will focus more on the West Coast or on other topics that aren't "Other Vaginal Option"-related. What are you betting on?

Meanwhile, even Siri is glitching out over this battle, and to see its crossovers into pop culture is a pretty comical and curious affair. DJ Akademiks doesn't want this to keep progressing, but there are a whole lot of fans who say otherwise. We'll see what sides of their duality these MCs choose to feed into. But what's true is that on both sides, there are plenty of people who want to speak on behalf of these artists and dig the hole deeper down a combative path.

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Gabriel Bras Nevares is a music and pop culture news writer for HotNewHipHop. He started in 2022 as a weekend writer and, since joining the team full-time, has developed a strong knowledge in hip-hop news and releases. Whether it’s regular coverage or occasional interviews and album reviews, he continues to search for the most relevant news for his audience and find the best new releases in the genre. What excites him the most is finding pop culture stories of interest, as well as a deeper passion for the art form of hip-hop and its contemporary output. Specifically, Gabriel enjoys the fringes of rap music: the experimental, boundary-pushing, and raw alternatives to the mainstream sound. As a proud native of San Juan, Puerto Rico, he also stays up-to-date with the archipelago’s local scene and its biggest musical exponents in reggaetón, salsa, indie, and beyond. Before working at HotNewHipHop, Gabriel produced multiple short documentaries, artist interviews, venue spotlights, and audio podcasts on a variety of genres and musical figures. Hardcore punk and Go-go music defined much of his coverage during his time at the George Washington University in D.C. His favorite hip-hop artists working today are Tyler, The Creator, Boldy James, JPEGMAFIA, and Earl Sweatshirt.
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