Drake has launched a brand new music known as “What Did I Miss?” On the observe—co-produced by DJ Lewis, Elyas, FNZ, Gyz, London Cyr, O Lil Angel, Oz, Patron, and Tay Keith—the Toronto musician displays on his beef with Kendrick Lamar and the individuals who did and didn’t stand by him within the feud. Hearken to the music under.
Drake opens “What Did I Miss?” by reflecting on the meat and the way in which it affected these round him: “Askin’ me, ‘How did it really feel?’ Can’t say it didn’t shock me/Final time I regarded to my proper, you n****s was standing beside me/How can some folks I really like hold round pussies who attempt me?” Later, in his first verse, Drake raps, “It’s love for my brothers and demise to a traitor, let’s go.”
In his second verse, Drake references Kendrick Lamar’s large Drake-taunting Pop Out live performance, in Inglewood, California, that featured performances and appearances from former Drake collaborators, akin to YG, Mustard, and Ty Dolla $ign. “I noticed bro went to Pop Out with them, however been dick-riding gang since ‘Headlines,’” he raps.
The meat between Drake and Kendrick Lamar was reignited when Lamar took some refined photographs at Drake on Future and Metro Boomin’s “Like That.” Importantly, Future and Metro Boomin have been each, at one time limit, distinguished Drake collaborators, and their flip in opposition to the Canadian artist led to different former buddies taking sides within the feud. The Weeknd, for instance, appeared on Future and Metro Boomin’s We Nonetheless Don’t Belief You—a possible signal of the place his loyalties lied—and Rick Ross shared his personal diss observe in opposition to Drake, “Champagne Moments.”
“What Did I Miss?” is a uncommon solo single from Drake, since he shared his suite of anti-Lamar tracks in 2024. The brand new music is launched by way of Drake’s OVO Sound. Like all of Drake’s latest solo music, it’s licensed to Republic Data, a label owned by Common Music Group (UMG). Drake is federally suing UMG for defamation, claiming that the company “waged an unrelenting marketing campaign” to advertise “Not Like Us,” Kendrick Lamar’s mega-hit that Drake believes is full of falsities.
