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Drake has been accused of trolling Kendrick Lamar in a new Instagram story he posted.
In a photo posted on Friday (April 26), the 6 God can be seen wearing a shirt that reads “Compton Community College,” a real institution that is located in Lamar’s home city.
Drizzy and Kendrick, of course, have been feuding publicly since the latter’s shots at the former on Future and Metro Boomin’s “Like That.”
Drake responded directly with “Push Ups.” That was shortly followed by “Taylor Made Freestyle,” which used the computer-generated voices of 2Pac and Snoop Dogg. The track was taken down following legal threats from Pac’s estate.
Akademiks speculated that Drake’s choice of attire in his new photo was a swipe at Lamar’s wife, Whitney Alford, who Ak said “allegedly” attended Compton College.
However, Us Weekly reported that Alford, who shares two children with Lamar, went to California State University Long Beach, where she studied accounting.
Check out Drake’s story below.
This isn’t the first time that Akademiks has talked about Drake’s motives.
Speaking on his Off the Record podcast, the media personality said that he’s been in touch with the 6 God in recent weeks amid his reignited beef with Kendrick Lamar. Ak shared snippets of their conversations.
“From what he’s told me, he’s been waiting for this for 10 years,” he said. “He’s watched the pattern. He specifically told me, ‘Yo, I’ve watched this guy do the same bait and switch every time. He drops a verse that people are hyped up about, that people are like, “Oh, he’s coming at you.” I’m always ready to defend myself. I’m always ready to engage… and then he goes ghost and nothing happens.’”
Akademiks also claimed that Drake is aware of a rumored diss track that Kendrick has had in the stash for years, which he theorized is why the Toronto native has been repeatedly taunting his rival.
“You can tell he wants the showdown to happen now and not for everybody to go back to their corners and reconvene another time,” Ak added. “He wants it now.”
The podcaster, who has been critical of Kendrick’s silence over Drake’s diss songs, also wrote on X (formerly Twitter): “Now if Kendrick Lamar mans up and finally drops I’ll change my tune especially if its good.
“But im hearing that n-gga tryna sell his next album with the Drake diss.. to me thats WEIRD asf. imagine Drake said he wasn’t responding to Like That til his next album.”
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