Tom Hanks has enlisted the help of his son Chet Hanks to catch him up to speed on the rap feud between Drake and Kendrick Lamar.
Last night (May 20), Chet took to his Instagram Stories to share screen grabs of a text conversation with his father, in which the actor asks for Chet to explain what’s going on between the two rappers.
Tom Hanks messaged his son: “Big Main, can you explain the Drake/Kendrick Lamar feud to me?”. Chet then replied with a long block of text, explaining the situation to his father. Chet summarised the beef to his father, suggesting that he thinks Kendrick Lamar came out as the victor in the feud.
Chet Hanks said of Kendrick’s last response with ‘Not Like Us’: “That was pretty much the equivalent of when you took me to your high school in Oakland and we walked in on the basketball game and everybody was going nuts. Like if you heard it, you would just automatically know how to Crip walk with a stank face while clutching an Oscar in each hand with Marshawn Lynch, then dap him up and tell him ‘Town Bidness’, which solidified the win not only for Kendrick but for the entire West Coast.”
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Tom Hanks responded: “Holy cow! These are fighting words. People are taking sides?? Who’s winning??”, which has since prompted jokes on social media that the elder Hanks did not read his son’s message explaining he thought Lamar won the feud.
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— Andrew Barber (@fakeshoredrive) May 20, 2024
The Kendrick-Drake beef has dominated the news over the last two months, being kindled by Kendrickâs contribution to âLike Thatâ, from Metro Boomin and Futureâs album âWe Donât Trust Youâ. On the track, Lamar responded to J. Cole and Drakeâs âFirst Person Shooterâ, where Cole called the trio âthe big threeâ, by rapping: âMotherfuck the big three / N***, itâs just big meâ.
That triggered a sequence of back-and-forth tracks: Drakeâs âPush Upsâ and âTaylor Made Freestyleâ, followed by Lamarâs âEuphoriaâ and â6:16 In LAâ. Drake hit back with âFamily Mattersâ, which was swiftly followed by Lamarâs âMeet The Grahamsâ. The most recent contributions are Kendrickâs âNot Like Usâ and Drakeâs âThe Heart, Part 6â.
âNot Like Usâ has since topped the Billboard Hot 100 and broken the Spotify record for the most streamed rap song in one day, while other rap luminaries have spoken out against the beef, including Vince Staples, who said the community âdeserve betterâ, and Questlove, who called it âwrestling-match level mudslingingâ.
In addition, a shooting outside Drakeâs residence in Toronto on May 7 left a bodyguard seriously injured. There is no confirmation that the shooting was connected to the ongoing beef. While reporting on the story, a TV news anchor slipped up and called Drake a âraperâ not a ârapperâ.
A day after the shooting, a man was arrested for attempting to break into Drakeâs Toronto mansion. That incident was the first of three trespassing attempts that week, which increased media presence at the home. Drake took to Instagram to ask whoever operated a news helicopter to stop flying at night so he could sleep.
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