On Thursday, July 17, DJ Akademiks shared his opinion in regards to the long-standing beef between rappers Kendrick Lamar and Drake, talking in regards to the accountability of dividing hip-hop via their rap battle, and for:
“how private it bought what number of different unintended ppl bought damage or character assassinated. Till u two grown males do this .. each of yall stfu. Yall made MILLIONS.”
The rap battle between Drizzy and Lamar started in March 2024, when the latter dissed Drake on his verse in Future and Metro Boomin’s monitor, Like That.
The One Dance rapper’s response got here with Push Ups the subsequent month, adopted by a subsequent diss monitor, Taylor Made Freestyle. The rappers continued to alternate diss tracks all year long, with Lamar’s a number of Grammy-winning monitor, Not Like Us, additionally being a part of it.
Earlier this yr (in January 2025), Drake sued UMG for publishing and selling the music, which calls him a “licensed pedophile,” thereby damaging his repute.
Whereas the lawsuit is much from its conclusion, the rappers are nonetheless taking subliminal photographs at one another, with Lamar’s verse on Clipse’s Chains & Whips (that dropped final week) being its most up-to-date instance.
DJ Akademiks has picked a facet within the ongoing Nicki Minaj-SZA feud
Drake and Kendrick Lamar aren’t the one artists whose feud DJ Akademiks has opinions about.
On Wednesday (July 17), DJ Akademiks shared a tweet supporting Nicki Minaj, making it clear that the streamer was on her facet amid the continued on-line feud between the rapper and SZA.
Earlier than claiming Minaj has “solely been exposing the demons of the business,” DJ Akademiks additionally shared a video asking the singer’s followers to not contact him. Punch, SZA’s supervisor at TDE, responded to the tweet, asking the DJ to “maintain it cool” concerning the insults.
For the unversed, the net spat between Nicki Minaj and SZA began over Punch. After Minaj made a subliminal comment about her supervisor “bullying” and “mendacity” to her in a tweet on early Wednesday morning, the Luther singer additionally tweeted, warning followers to not take the bait with out mentioning Nicki.
The Anaconda rapper was fast to take offense and retweeted SZA, asking her to attract again her freckles and calling her a “liar, liar pants on fireplace.” The artists have since continued to throw shade at each other over the social media platform.
In a Thursday tweet, SZA took issues one step additional by attaching a screenshot of Minaj’s alleged textual content alternate together with her supervisor from 2020, the place the rapper requested for a SZA function on one among her tracks.
Within the caption of her tweet, which has since been faraway from her profile, SZA name-dropped Nicki Minaj for the primary time since their beef began. She additionally means that maybe the rapper was having “a second”.
For the reason that tweet seems to be deleted, Nicki hasn’t responded to it thus far. Her more moderen tweets on X right this moment concentrate on Jay-Z and Desiree Perez, the CEO of Roc Nation, and the lawsuits they’re each going through.
Edited by Maithreyi S
