Kendrick Lamar – ​meet the grahams Lyrics

Kendrick Lamar kicked off Might 3, 2024 with the shock launch of “6:16 in LA,” a diss monitor that adopted his April 30 monitor “euphoria” and preceded a 3rd Drake response—14 hours later, Drake would add “Household Issues” to YouTube, which Kendrick then used as gas to unleash the sinister six-minute monitor, “meet the grahams.”

Because the title implies, Kendrick sends a private message to every member of the Graham household. He exposes scathing allegations about Drake, lots of which had been by no means beforehand reported. Probably the most notable allegation is that Drake supposedly has an 11-year-old daughter and unspecified different kids. Drake made gentle of the allegation to discredit it with an Instagram Story publish shortly after the monitor dropped.

Past addressing the Grahams, Kendrick assaults different features of Drake’s character. He claims Drizzy is hooked on prescription drugs—maybe those displayed on the music’s cowl—compares him to disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein, claims he has intercourse offenders on his OVO Sound payroll, and that he’s a sexual deviant.

This monitor’s cowl artwork was eliminated for the streaming launch, seemingly resulting from HIPAA Privateness guidelines that shield people’ medical information. The unique cowl artwork seems to be a zoomed-out model of the art work that accompanied “6:16 in LA,” displaying objects rumored to belong to Drake that had been stolen from his father’s suitcase, in keeping with a detailed supply; specifically, DJ Akademiks. Amongst these things are Ozempic and Zolpidem drugs, in addition to receipts of outrageous jewellery purchases. These things are resting on a multi-colored button-up T-shirt depicting a cartoon canine urinating on a pink hearth hydrant. This may coincide with the identify of Drake’s October 2023 album, For All The Canine, which options J. Cole on “First Individual Shooter” buying and selling disses directed at Okay-Dot. Moreover, this could possibly be a refined allusion to longtime rumors that T.I. let his pal urinate on Drake, in keeping with a verse on October 2020’s “We Did It Huge”:

So drunk in L.A., find yourself pissin’ on Drake, shit
Fuck it, that’s nonetheless my brother

That is alluded to within the first verse, when Kendrick handle Drake’s son, Adonis:

By no means let a person piss in your leg, son
Both you die proper there or pop that man within the head, son