Aretha sings “Let me see you proooove it,” setting the tone for Drake’s angle right here that Kendrick’s been hitting him with baseless accusations. “The Coronary heart Half 6” is in full response mode to all the things that is transpired during the last three days, together with direct rebuttals to Kendrick’s “Not Like Us;” it was clearly written within the final 24 hours. Drake sounds…a bit of over all of it, whereas however nonetheless promising that shit is about to get darkish. (That is now his second monitor in a row the place he plainly states he’d fairly be on trip someplace than holed up in chilly Toronto writing disses.) Drake, buddy, home abuse and pedophilia accusations are within the air—we have been pitch black for the previous couple of songs already.
You’d suppose Drake would sound a bit of extra celebratory than he does to start out the music, the place he takes a victory lap for allegedly going full Sydney Bristow and triple-crossing Kendrick into leaping on Pretend Youngster Intel. “We plotted for per week after which we fed you the data…we thought of giving a faux identify or a vacation spot/however you so thirsty, you not involved with investigation.” Who’s mendacity or who was fooled? Solely the Pusha T Investigative Staff can clear up this.
Drake does not dwell there, although, as a substitute transferring on to Kendrick’s household, doubling down on the 2 angles that shaped the premise of “Household Issues”: that Kendrick has overwhelmed his companion Whitney previously, he is estranged from their household, and considered one of his two children is definitely fathered by his good friend and artistic companion Dave Free. To drive this final level house, “The Coronary heart Half 6” art work is an Instagram screenshot of Dave leaving coronary heart emojis underneath, presumably, an image Whitney posted.
Persevering with his by way of line of utilizing Kendrick’s confessional raps on Mr. Morale as ammo, Drake refers again to “Mom I Sober,” the monitor the place Kendrick unpacks his mom’s sexual abuse and the way it knowledgeable an incident in his childhood the place his mom was nervous he was being abused by a member of the family although Kendrick says he wasn’t. Dr. Drake’s learn: He really was molseted, and that is why he is so hell-bent on calling OVO “licensed pedophiles.”
To listen to Drake inform it, he is “solely fuckin with Whitneys, not Millie Bobby Browns, I might by no means look twice at no teenager.” Elsewhere on the music, he says: “If I used to be fucking younger ladies, I promise I might have been arrested/ I am manner too well-known for this shit you simply prompt.” Drake goes on to parrot a sentiment that is been gaining recognition on social media for the previous couple of days, that there is an inherent hypocrisy to Kendrick happening this path of assault provided that he famously protested Spotify’s temporary removing of R. Kelly and XXXTentacion’s music as censorship that he couldn’t assist.
Drake ends the monitor with one final sick joke: “Whitney you may hit me when you want a favor/And after I say I will hit ya again, it is lots safer” earlier than going full Mob boss mode on the outro with some robust speak. Most crucially, he tries to take the wind out of Kendrick’s inevitable response, wisecracking that Kendrick most likely has “10 extra data to drop.” Any minute now…
Could 12: Beef over?
One of many “ten extra” Kendrick data Drake snidely alluded to on “The Coronary heart Half 6” by no means got here; Drake’s defensive tenor on the monitor amidst the surging recognition of “Not Like Us” was sufficient for a lot of rap followers, pundits and publications alike to declare Kendrick the winner. Now, per week later, Drake will not be conceding defeat technically however he is apparently calling it quits.
