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It’s been hard to not clown on Drake for his incredibly one-sided beef with Kendrick Lamar, and while I assumed the worst was over in the wake of the concert his foe threw earlier this month, that might not be the case now that he’s getting dragged by a fairly unlikely critic in the form of Sheryl Crow.
It’s been around a month and a half since Drake all but admitted defeat in his back-and-forth with Kendrick Lamar when he essentially waved the white flag a little over a week after the man he’d been trading tracks with drove a nail into the coffin by dropping “Not Like Us,” the song that immediately earned a spot on the Mount Rushmore of Rap Disses.
Drake did attempt to respond to the song Kendrick played five times in a row while taking a victory lap at the show he held in Compton on June 19th in the form of “The Heart Part 6,” but that was just the last in a line of retroactively forgettable records the Toronto native dropped during the feud that are destined to become minor footnotes in a moment of hip-hop history where Lamar firmly cemented his status at the victor.
At this point, it’s almost easy to forget Drake decided to harness A.I. versions of Tupac Shakur and Snoop Dogg for the “Taylor Made Freestyle” he was eventually forced to take down after being hit with a legal threat from the former’s estate—a curious move that has now resulted in him receiving a pretty fierce tongue-lashing from Sheryl Crow.
Now, you might not think the artist best known for upbeat tunes like “All I Wanna Do” and “Soak Up the Sun” would have any notable thoughts on the Drake-Kendrick situation, but during a recent interview with the BBC, she pointed to the rapper’s questionable use of 2Pac while highlighting some of her concerns with A.I., saying:
“You cannot bring people back from the dead and believe that they would stand for that. “I’m sure Drake thought, ‘Yeah, I shouldn’t do it, but I’ll say sorry later’. But it’s already done, and people will find it even if he takes it down.
It’s hateful. It is antithetical to the life force that exists in all of us.”
The Ls just keep on coming for Aubrey.