DJ Akademiks Explains Why Drake Will "Win Game 2" Against Kendrick Lamar & Company

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"Drake in 5."

As if folks didn't get enough this year, hip-hop culture entertains a very interesting possibility these days: will Drake "win Game 2" as he proclaimed in an Instagram Story? Many folks feel like the series against Kendrick Lamar and company already ended, especially as the Compton lyricist and his camp reportedly have no interest in revisiting their victory. But OVO fans staunchly maintain that their fav will emerge victorious in the end, whether by literally changing the outcome of the battle or flaunting his success in spite of his loss. It's unclear what possibility DJ Akademiks believes in, but as he showed during his recent livestream, he's still ten toes down for The Boy.

"But Game 2, we will win," DJ Akademiks expressed. "Game 2, we will win. That's a fact. If you think Drake finna abandon and forsake all them fans, you got to realize, this for the fans right here. You think he gon' let some p***y a** n***as have something over him, his legacy, and his fans? No! Aye, chat, f**k that. This the new thing: Drake in five. Drake in five, people, Drake in five. Remember I told you that.

DJ Akademiks Thinks Drake Will Win In The End

"Drake. In five," DJ Akademiks emphasized. "Drake in five. No, no, no, no, we ain't doing six. Five. What's understood don't need to be explained. Y'all are going to watch it. Listen, listen, we got to see where the game starts. We got to see, bro. Just watch Game 2, bro. Just watch Game 2. We ain't got to tell you the game plan. This ain't Steve Kerr, n***a. F**k you think, we Gregg Popovich?" Again, what little rumblings we've heard on Kendrick Lamar's end point to this being a one-sided effort.

Meanwhile, all this speculation from DJ Akademiks and others is irrelevant until we really know what "Game 2" means. Is it literally a second round of the Kendrick Lamar battle, will Drake focus on his other opponents, or does "winning Game 2" instead mean just being the biggest rapper of them all? No one really believed that he would lose that status immediately, right? Regardless, we'll have to patiently wait until we actually have a concrete idea of this epilogue.

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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