{"id":658500,"date":"2025-03-23T20:15:15","date_gmt":"2025-03-23T17:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/like-that-one-year-later-how-one-kendrick-lamar-verse-shook-up-the-game-again\/"},"modified":"2025-03-23T20:15:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-23T17:15:15","slug":"like-that-one-year-later-how-one-kendrick-lamar-verse-shook-up-the-game-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/like-that-one-year-later-how-one-kendrick-lamar-verse-shook-up-the-game-again\/","title":{"rendered":"#&#039;Like That,&#039; One Year Later: How One Kendrick Lamar Verse Shook Up The Game (Again)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3bbfaea3404\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3bbfaea3404\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/like-that-one-year-later-how-one-kendrick-lamar-verse-shook-up-the-game-again\/#Hip_Hop_Civil_War\" >Hip Hop Civil War<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/like-that-one-year-later-how-one-kendrick-lamar-verse-shook-up-the-game-again\/#The_Downfall_of_Drake\" >The Downfall of Drake<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/like-that-one-year-later-how-one-kendrick-lamar-verse-shook-up-the-game-again\/#Kendrick_Supernova\" >Kendrick Supernova<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/like-that-one-year-later-how-one-kendrick-lamar-verse-shook-up-the-game-again\/#Kanye_Wests_Increasing_Irrelevancy\" >Kanye West\u2019s Increasing Irrelevancy<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/like-that-one-year-later-how-one-kendrick-lamar-verse-shook-up-the-game-again\/#Competition_Time\" >Competition Time<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/app.hiphopdx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/kendrick-lamar-like-that-shook-up-the-game.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"body-copy js-entry-text \" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>It was just another Friday in March. Future and Metro Boomin\u2019s long-anticipated joint album was finally here and fans were looking forward to hearing some menacing trap beats and toxic tales of women, percocet and Gucci flip flops. But Kendrick Lamar had other ideas.<\/p>\n<p><em>We Don\u2019t Trust You<\/em> was already a hypnotic ride five tracks in when \u201cLike That,\u201d with its opening burst of frantic laser horns, took it to a new level. With its Eazy-E and Rodney-O &amp; Joe Cooley samples and sinister keys, Metro had conducted his finest opera since \u201cDon\u2019t Come Out the House,\u201d while Pluto flipped the gothic aesthetic into something seductive.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-player\">\n<div class=\"ad-indicator-container\">\n<div class=\"ad-indicator\">AD<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"border\">\n<div class=\"ad-border-top\">\n<p>AD LOADING&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-border-bottom\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"video-player-ad\" id=\"mm-player\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Then the nasally tones of Kendrick Lamar popped up out of nowhere on the second verse. <em>\u201cThese n-ggas talkin\u2019 out of their necks\u201d<\/em> was the aggressive opening line from the usually cerebral Compton superstar, setting the tone for a verse that would change the course of Hip Hop (and his own career) for at least the next year.<\/p>\n<p>After puffing his chest out ever further with each blistering line, Kendrick made it clear that he \u201cchooses violence\u201d and took aim at Drake and J. Cole over their Super Bowl-level boasts on \u201cFirst Person Shooter.\u201d Though Lamar\u2019s jabs were tame in hindsight compared to what was to come on \u201cEuphoria\u201d, \u201cMeet the Grahams\u201d and \u201cNot Like Us,\u201d his line about \u201csnatchin\u2019 chains and burnin\u2019 tattoos\u201d should have been a warning heeded by the 6 God.<\/p>\n<p>A year on from the thunderbolt that was \u201cLike That,\u201d the rap <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> is still catching its breath. Friends are now enemies. Empires have crumbled. Lawsuits have been filed. And Hip Hop has a new king. It\u2019s funny how one verse can fuck up the game.<\/p>\n<p>Below, <em>HipHopDX<\/em> explores how Kendrick Lamar\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>earance on \u201cLike That\u201d changed everything.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Future, Metro Boomin, Kendrick Lamar - Like That (Official Audio)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N9bKBAA22Go?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Hip_Hop_Civil_War\"><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>Hip Hop Civil War<\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>At one point in time, nobody appeared to have more friends in Hip Hop than Drake. Joint albums with Future and 21 Savage, smash hits with Lil Wayne, Lil Baby and Lil Durk, and enough collaborations with Rick Ross to keep the big man collecting sizeable royalty checks. Not to mention his history with The Weeknd, A$AP Rocky and even Kendrick himself. But by the end of 2024, Drizzy cut a much lonelier figure with seemingly only PARTYNEXTDOOR, The Game (a.k.a. the West Coast\u2019s own Benedict Arnold) and a bunch of right-wing streamers left by his side.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike That\u201d ignited this schism in Hip Hop. It was declared open season on Drake, with Rick Ross in particular enjoying dissing his previously close collaborator. Future and Rocky also fired shots at the Toronto native, seemingly over women. Pretty Flacko was particularly justified given Drake\u2019s frequent subliminals aimed at his former fling and Rocky\u2019s current girlfriend Rihanna.<\/p>\n<p>The hardheadedness of both Drake and Kendrick, exacerbated by how heated their feud got, has meant there\u2019s been no playing both sides. There\u2019s not even a metaphorical Switzerland where peace can be made with few, if any, of the many, many artists that Drake has associated with over the years, rushing to his defense.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Downfall_of_Drake\"><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>The Downfall of Drake<\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Drake couldn\u2019t resist. Even after surviving Pusha T\u2018s scathing \u201cThe Story of Adidon\u201d and the ghostwriter revelations from his feud with Meek Mill, his ego would not let it slide. Kendrick was always four chess moves ahead and knew exactly where his longtime rival would escalate to and how, but \u201cLike That\u201d was always the warning shot.<\/p>\n<p>Drizzy\u2019s response to the song (and the flurry of shots aimed in his direction across Future and Metro Boomin\u2019s two albums) revealed so much about the man\u2019s fragile psyche, pettiness, self-pity, the lack of finesse in his playground insults and the lack of hesitation to take aim at women. Kendrick likely knew all that when sanctioning the release of \u201cLike That,\u201d tossing out the most irresistible piece of bait imaginable. Drake bit, lost his crown, and went and cried to his lawyers.<\/p>\n<p>Though the battle itself technically finished last May with the forgettable \u201cThe Heart Part 6,\u201d two of the biggest blows were dealt earlier this year. In the space of seven days in February, Kendrick won a record five Grammys for \u201cNot Like Us,\u201d the most awards given to any one song, before performing his hit diss track at the Super Bowl in front of 133.5 million viewers, another historic stat.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hard to imagine that it was merely coincidence that Drake had scheduled a tour on the other side of the world as these events took place.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DF39Bizx7fm\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\"background:#FFF;border:0;border-radius:3px;box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15);margin:1px;max-width:500px;min-width:326px;padding:0;width:calc(100% - 2px)\">\n<div style=\"padding:16px\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DF39Bizx7fm\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" 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rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DF39Bizx7fm\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\"color:#c9c8cd;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:17px;text-decoration:none\" target=\"_blank\">A post shared by NFL (@nfl)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Kendrick_Supernova\"><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>Kendrick Supernova<\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Who knows if when Kendrick decided to pull the trigger on Drake and J. Cole, he expected to be the biggest thing in music by the end of the summer. It was an acceleration in popularity by an established artist already more than a decade in the game that was without precedent. And it wasn\u2019t a flash-in-the-pan flush of attention, either. A year on from \u201cLike That\u201d hitting number one on the Billboard Hot 100, Kendrick still <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/lists\/kendrick-lamar-sza-luther-hot-100-number-one-fourth-week\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sits atop the chart with \u201cLuther,\u201d<\/a> a song that was released four months ago.<\/p>\n<p>Heading into the battle, Drake was the undisputed commercial heavyweight of Hip Hop. In all of music, he was probably only behind Taylor Swift. But his war of words with Kendrick left him on his knees. None of his four diss tracks (\u201cPush Ups,\u201d \u201cTaylor Made Freestyle,\u201d \u201cFamily Matters\u201d and \u201cThe Heart Part 6\u201d) made the type of impact that we\u2019ve come to expect from Spotify\u2019s most-streamed artist of all time.<\/p>\n<p>Adding insult to injury, his first post-beef album, <em>$ome $exy $ongs 4 U<\/em>, not only failed to spawn a hit single but continues to get bodied by <em>GNX<\/em> on the Billboard 200. Drake likely thought that even if Kendrick out-rapped him, he could bully him on the charts and streaming services. Instead, the Canadian has been beaten at his own game.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Kanye_Wests_Increasing_Irrelevancy\"><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>Kanye West\u2019s Increasing Irrelevancy<\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Nothing can happen in the world, let alone Hip Hop, without Kanye West trying to leach some attention towards himself. A longtime frenemy of Drake, Ye basically barged into Kendrick\u2019s living room and snatched the TV remote, but thankfully he was quickly escorted out. If there was ever a sign that Hip Hop had moved on from Kanye, it was when he dropped a remix of \u201cLike That\u201d and the world treated it with a collective shrug. (The song never even made it to DSPs.)<\/p>\n<p>His rhymes were lame (<em>\u201cY\u2019all so outta sight, outta mind \/ I can\u2019t even think of a Drake line \/ Play J. Cole, get the pussy dry\u201d<\/em>) and his only real issue with Drake was that he had become more popular than him. Since then, West has endorsed assaulting women, aligned himself with Nazis and gone deeper into his hateful well of antisemitism as he continues to have a meltdown about every artist that is better liked than him.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Competition_Time\"><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>Competition Time<\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>When his Earth-shaking \u201cControl\u201d verse dropped in 2013, Kendrick\u2019s unabashed proclamation of greatness riled up more than a few of his peers. That call to arms revealed a great deal about his philosophy on Hip Hop \u2014 that it\u2019s an intellectual artform, competitive at heart and should not necessarily be easily palatable. The song received defensive responses from Drake and Big Sean, but few actual response tracks from those named in his verse. Instead, Lupe Fiasco and Joe Budden delivered two of the most notable rebuttals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike That\u201d has had a similar but different impact. It not only inspired Drake to come with some of his hardest ever lines (which still weren\u2019t enough), but it seemingly motivated J. Cole to go back to basics with reinvigorated songs like \u201ccLOUDs\u201d following the calamity that was \u201c7 Minute Drill\u201d and his subsequent apology to Kendrick at Dreamville Festival.<\/p>\n<p>Joey Bada$$, who considers himself in the lineage of top rappers, has also since thrown jabs at Cole and the entire West Coast while proclaiming himself the King of New York on his recent string of singles. It\u2019s been a long time since there was a fight night edge to Hip Hop, but 2024 was the year of combat thanks to Kendrick\u2019s \u201cLike That.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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