Kendrick Lamar Appears To Respond To Drake's Controversial Appearance On xQc's Stream

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Feb 15, 2016; Los Angeles, CA, USA; Kendrick Lamar performs during the 58th Grammy Awards at the Staples Center. Mandatory Credit: Robert Hanashiro-USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images
This was one of Drizzy's first big appearances post-beef.

Drake didn't take long to speak out and make himself visible again after Kendrick Lamar released his new album GNX. It was through an appearance with superstar Kick streamer xQc last night (Sunday, November 24), and it was overall a great time from what their charity gambling stream indicated. But of course, the Toronto rapper couldn't escape some jokes from fans thanks to various beef references during the stream, such as one comment about "fairy tales." Apparently, Kendrick himself caught wind of this, as an alleged friend of his posted some screenshots to Instagram that seemingly show his reaction to this.

"He trippin??!" Kendrick Lamar allegedly asked his friend about Drake, following a slew of laughing emojis at how he apparently turned Drizzy into a streamer. For the record, he's been streaming for years now every once in a while, but that's besides the point. It seems like K.Dot just had a laugh about it, and for the most part, so did the 6ix God, so it's odd to see them treat their battle more casually these days. What they do take seriously now are how other people address them and their musical moves, such as this new GNX album and the OVO mogul's upcoming Australian tour that starts on the same day as the Super Bowl.

Kendrick Lamar Seemingly Reacts To Drake's xQc Stream

As fans continue to debate that whole situation, Kendrick Lamar and Drake are just gearing up to continue their dominance one way or another. The latter has a collab album on the way with PARTYNEXTDOOR, and the former just walked away from one of the biggest years for any rapper with a whole lot of excellent new material to boast. It's been an excellent year to be a rap fan, whether you tapped into this showdown or not.

Meanwhile, everyone is still enjoying the GNX hype right now, and it will be curious to see if Kendrick Lamar or Drake have anything else to say about their feud or if they will move onto other things. It seems unlikely that they will just leave this scuffle behind and never address each other again, but we couldn't have predicted that Future and Metro Boomin seemingly backtracked their positions, so who knows?

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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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