Drake has launched a brand new track referred to as “What Did I Miss?” On the monitor—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. Take heed to the track beneath.
Drake opens “What Did I Miss?” by reflecting on the meat and the best way it affected these round him: “Askin’ me, ‘How did it really feel?’ Can’t say it didn’t shock me/Final time I seemed to my proper, you n****s was standing beside me/How can some folks I like cling 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, resembling 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 cut-off date, outstanding Drake collaborators, and their flip towards 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 monitor towards 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 track 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 crammed with falsities.