As the world learned in 2024, engaging Kendrick Lamar in a rap battle may not be the best idea… unless you want everybody at the Grammys to rap along with a chart-topping diss track about you ...

“Sometimes I low key be feelin like I wanna get in the URL battle rap ring,” he tweeted. “Pick someone and let’s get this shit rockin.” He later states that “nobody is off the table ...

It didn’t last long. In 2013, the Pulitzer Prize winner Lamar was featured on Big Sean’s “Control,” in which he called out a ...

“I think a lot of people was putting rap to the back — you didn’t get ... I love when artists grit [their] teeth. I still watch battle raps … This has always been the core definition ...

Drake vs Kendrick Lamar is the biggest beef in recent rap history. It’s a fight that’s gone miles beyond the usual lyrical martial artistry, though there has certainly been plenty of that.