{"id":38757,"date":"2025-07-05T14:33:59","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T14:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/05\/drake-reflects-on-kendrick-lamar-beef-fallout-on-new-song-what-did-i-miss-listen\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T14:33:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T14:33:59","slug":"drake-reflects-on-kendrick-lamar-beef-fallout-on-new-song-what-did-i-miss-listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/05\/drake-reflects-on-kendrick-lamar-beef-fallout-on-new-song-what-did-i-miss-listen\/","title":{"rendered":"Drake Reflects on Kendrick Lamar Beef Fallout on New Song \u201cWhat Did I Miss?\u201d: Listen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/27950-drake\/\">Drake<\/a> has released a new song called \u201c<a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/drake.lnk.to\/whatdidimiss\/\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/drake.lnk.to\/whatdidimiss\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/drake.lnk.to\/whatdidimiss\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">What Did I Miss?<\/a>\u201d On the track\u2014co-produced by DJ Lewis, Elyas, FNZ, Gyz, London Cyr, O Lil Angel, Oz, Patron, and Tay Keith\u2014the Toronto musician reflects on <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/thepitch\/drake-and-kendricks-beef-is-the-most-miserable-spectacle-in-rap-history\/\">his beef<\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/29812-kendrick-lamar\/\">Kendrick Lamar<\/a> and the people who did and did not stand by him in the feud. Listen to the song below.<\/p>\n<p>Drake opens \u201cWhat Did I Miss?\u201d by reflecting on the beef and the way it affected those around him: \u201cAskin\u2019 me, \u2018How did it feel?\u2019 Can\u2019t say it didn\u2019t surprise me\/Last time I looked to my right, you n****s was standing beside me\/How can some people I love hang around pussies who try me?\u201d Later, in his first verse, Drake raps, \u201cIt\u2019s love for my brothers and death to a traitor, let\u2019s go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In his second verse, Drake references Kendrick Lamar\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/thepitch\/kendrick-lamar-pop-out-concert-a-west-coast-reunion-and-unforgettable-haters-ball\/\">massive Drake-taunting Pop Out concert<\/a>, in Inglewood, California, that featured performances and appearances from former Drake collaborators, such as YG, Mustard, and Ty Dolla $ign. \u201cI saw bro went to Pop Out with them, but been dick-riding gang since \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/44175-watch-the-video-for-drakes-headlines\/\">Headlines<\/a>,\u2019\u201d he raps.<\/p>\n<p>The beef between Drake and Kendrick Lamar was reignited when Lamar took some subtle shots at Drake on Future and Metro Boomin\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/tracks\/future-metro-boomin-like-that-kendrick-lamar\/\">Like That<\/a>.\u201d Importantly, Future and Metro Boomin were both, at one point in time, prominent Drake collaborators, and their turn against the Canadian artist led to other <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/thepitch\/a-power-ranking-of-everyone-in-the-drake-kendrick-lamar-every-rapper-ever-battle-royale\/\">former friends taking sides<\/a> in the feud. The Weeknd, for example, appeared on Future and Metro Boomin\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/future-metro-boomin-we-still-dont-trust-you\/\"><em>We Still Don\u2019t Trust You<\/em><\/a>\u2014a potential sign of where his loyalties lied\u2014and Rick Ross shared his own diss track against Drake, \u201cChampagne Moments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat Did I Miss?\u201d is a rare solo single from Drake, since he shared his suite of anti-Lamar tracks in 2024. The new song is released via Drake\u2019s OVO Sound. Like all of Drake\u2019s recent solo music, it is licensed to Republic Records, a label owned by Universal Music Group (UMG). Drake is <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/drake-withdraws-legal-action-against-spotify-and-universal-music-group-over-not-like-us-streams\/\">federally suing<\/a> UMG for defamation, claiming that the corporation \u201cwaged an unrelenting campaign\u201d to promote \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/kendrick-lamar-takes-his-victory-lap-with-new-not-like-us-video-watch\/\">Not Like Us<\/a>,\u201d Kendrick Lamar\u2019s mega-hit that Drake believes is filled with falsities.<\/p>\n<figure data-testid=\"IframeEmbed\" class=\"IframeEmbedWrapper-sc-dRedg hZcniq iframe-embed\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/drake-reflects-on-kendrick-lamar-beef-fallout-on-new-song-what-did-i-miss-listen\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drake has released a new song called \u201cWhat Did I Miss?\u201d On the track\u2014co-produced by DJ Lewis, Elyas, FNZ, Gyz, London Cyr, O Lil&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38758,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[45,44],"class_list":["post-38757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latin","tag-hip-hop","tag-pop","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}