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    Kendrick Lamar Drake gets 5 points with his unlike us diss

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    Kendrick LamarHis fight with Drake brought him back to life Grammys scene.

    Lamar advanced to seven points Grammy nominations at the 2025 awards ceremony announced Friday morning. Lamar receives five nominations for diss of Drake’s hit, “Not Like Us,” Including record and song of the year.

    Meanwhile Drake He refused to apply for the Grammys It hasn’t received any nominations in the last few years.

    The greetings capped a tumultuous year for the former collaborators, who were unbanned over serious harassment allegations against each other. With their nominations, the Recording Academy appears to be endorsing Lamar’s path to victory in the messy beef.

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    The nominations follow a big year for the Pulitzer Prize winner, who has expanded his reach in his soured feud with Drake. The Compton, California native reignited their long-standing rivalry with a guest verse on “Like That” in March. The song rounds out its other two nominations and will also compete with “Not Like Us” in the best rap song and best rap performance categories. released four more diss records two of them this spring Billboard Hot 100 Top 10 tracks.

    The “Money Trees” rapper was also selected in August. 2025 Super Bowl halftime headliner in New Orleans next February. This move leaves Drake’s mentor and NOLA native disappointed Lil Wayne.

    Winning one of the biggest awards in music, the upbeat, West Coast-flavored, DJ Mustard-produced track culminates a year of takes, rumors and barbs, proving that even the Recording Academy isn’t above jumping into the fray.

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    The years-long subliminal pull continued on “Like That,” in which Lamar raps, seemingly referencing Drake: “It’s time for him to prove he’s a problem.”

    However, the feud officially started when Drake entered the ring with full diss tracks against Lamar”Exam” And “Taylor Freestyle Making“In April.

    Lamar replied with the first full diss song “enthusiasm,A little over a week later, he called the rapper a “cheater.” Lamar continued: “6:16 in Los Angeles“In early May. Fourteen hours later, Drake released his diss track”Family MattersThat night, in a song that openly claims that Lamar physically abused his partner Whitney Alford.

    Minutes later, Lamar announced Ozempik “rumors against Drake amid serious allegations of abuse, addiction and a second secret child”Meet the Grahams.” He then released “Not Like Us” on May 4, which included accusations of grooming girls:

    “I heard you like them young people. You better never go to cell block one again,” Lamar said. “For any (girl) who talks to him and falls in love, make sure you hide your (little) sister from him.”

    Lamar went on to perform all five tracks in his own home. Star-studded ‘Pop Out’ concertIt was streamed live on Amazon Prime Video on Juneteenth with 16,000 fans.

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    Lamar is the favorite to win in the rap categories, which won’t sit well with Drake. Lamar’s history as a Recording Academy heartthrob was criticized earlier this year by the “Jimmy Cooks” rapper, who said in his “Family Matters” diss track: “Kendrick just opened his mouth, someone give him a Grammy right now.” owned by Lamar 17 Grammys Drake among 57 candidates five of 55 candidates.

    The move will also likely increase tensions between the “Her Loss” rapper and the academy, which is up for Billboard’s No. 1 record. actually called him a pedophile.

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    There is a Canadian MC He criticized the Recording Academy due to “disconnection” The Weeknd’s exclusion from candidacy At the 2021 ceremony. He later withdrew his studio album “Certified Lover Boy” from consideration for the 2022 Grammys.

    It’s not unprecedented for a rap diss record to earn a Grammy nomination. Drake’s own Meek Mill diss album “Back to Back” was nominated for best rap performance at the 2016 Grammys. (You never guess who he lost to: Lamar, for his single “Pimp the Butterfly” and today’s protest anthem “Alright.”)

    And a little rap history: A diss album has won a Grammy before. LL Great J“Mama Said Knock You Out” won best rap performance at the 1991 Grammys. Part of the track is directed at rapper Kool Moe Dee, with whom LL Cool J has had a long feud.

    Credit: USA TODAY Entertainment team

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