Drake and Kendrick Lamar don’t get that women’s pain isn’t a punchline | Tayo Bero

Drake and Kendrick Lamar don’t get that women’s pain isn’t a punchline | Tayo Bero

The rappers’ fiery diss-battle has raised allegations of domestic violence and sex abuse – but for the wrong reasons

Drake and Kendrick Lamar have been battling it out for days in a vicious diss-track feud, but what started out as a sparring of wits between two of the world’s biggest rappers has quickly devolved into an excruciating game of who can expose the most damning thing about the other.

On his songs Meet the Grahams and Not Like Us, Lamar addresses Drake’s well-documented history of disturbing and inappropriate alleged behavior with minors, while on Family Matters, Drake has revived years-old domestic violence accusations against Lamar. Both Drake and Lamar deny any wrongdoing.

Tayo Bero is a Guardian US columnist

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