- Jack Dorsey appears to help Kendrick Lamar’s newest disses on Canadian rapper Drake.
- The previous Twitter CEO preferred a publish on X calling “Euphoria” a “top-10 diss monitor.”
- Dorsey’s help for Lamar goes again years — he even appeared in one in every of Lamar’s music movies.
The meat between Kendrick Lamar and Drake has been full of sudden characters, together with pop sensation Taylor Swift and long-dead legend Tupac Shakur.
Now, Twitter and Block cofounder Jack Dorsey is weighing in — and it seems that he is received “PRIDE” for Kung Fu Kenny.
After a back-and-forth of three diss tracks between Lamar and Drake, Lamar launched two songs this week. “Euphoria” dropped on Tuesday, and “6:16 in LA” dropped on Friday.
Each of Lamar’s tracks acquired approval from super-fan Dorsey, who has not too long ago preferred each new and outdated posts on X and praised the Compton rapper.
“I’ll give folks a pair weeks to understand Kendrick dropped a top-10 diss monitor of all time,” one publish Dorsey preferred from Wednesday mentioned.
The previous CEO additionally replied Friday with a coronary heart emoji to an outdated 2011 Lamar publish promoting a Toronto live performance on June 16. Toronto is Drake’s residence metropolis, and a few followers have speculated that the “6:16” in Lamar’s newest diss references this publish.
Dorsey did not grow to be a fan in a single day. The previous Twitter CEO has been a constant supporter of Lamar’s artwork. In 2015, Dorsey posted a video at a Lamar live performance calling the rapper “the best.”
He is additionally praised a lot of Lamar’s information, together with the Pulitzer-prize-winning “Rattling” and his pandemic report “Mr. Morale & the Massive Steppers.”
“that is an opera. @kendricklamar is a poet and a trainer. I be taught one thing new every hear…and I can not hearken to anything. fixed spin,” Dorsey mentioned of the 2022 album.
At one level, Dorsey even toyed with the thought of Lamar turning into a possible Twitter board member in 2016, Vox reported.
Lamar reciprocated the love by bringing Dorsey on for 2022 music video for the music “Rely Me Out.” Dorsey makes a fast cameo by sharing a toast with Lamar and enterprise capitalist Aviv Nevo.
Lamar additionally labored with Dorsey’s fintech firm Block and Ticketmaster to supply followers early entry tickets for his 2022 Massive Steppers tour, Quartz reported.
Dorsey is not the one unlikely character outdoors the music world to chime in on Drake and Lamar’s ongoing saga.
Actor Uma Thurman nodded to Drake in April by way of an Instagram publish that includes a picture of her costume in Quentin Tarantino’s “Kill Invoice: Quantity 1.” Within the movie, Thurman performed the katana-wielding, revenge-seeking “Bride.”
“Want this? @champagnepapi,” Thurman wrote as a caption in her story.
On Lamar’s aspect, iconic soul singer Al Inexperienced authorized of his newest monitor, which makes use of a pattern of Inexperienced’s “What A Fantastic Factor Love Is.”
It is an embarrassing improvement for Drake, who was roasted and promptly requested to take away one in every of his diss tracks towards Lamar final week after Shakur’s property took situation with Drake’s use of AI to recreate Pac’s voice.
On Friday night time, Drake launched his newest response to Lamar: “Household Issues.” Within the 7-minute monitor, Drake mentions Lamar’s longtime fiancée, Whitney Alford, and goes after Rick Ross, J. Cole, and The Weeknd.
Dorsey and spokespeople for Drake and Lamar didn’t reply to a request for remark from Enterprise Insider.
