Fact check: Did a man yell Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Not Like Us’ lyrics at Drake? Viral video debunked

Drake and Kendrick Lamar's recent beef has been a viral topic on the internet and the media, with the duo trading diss tracks back and forth for the past few months. Recently a clip emerged that a man allegedly yelled lyrics from Kendrick Lamar's Not Like Us diss track at Drake while he was coming out of an event.

However, it is to be noted that the video is fake. The sound on the video was edited to make it appear as if the man was shouting Lamar's lyrics. The original footage is from Mike Rubin's Super Bowl Party At The Waldorf Astoria In Phoenix, Arizona in February 2023, well before Kendrick Lamar's track was released.

Moreover, a community post has been added to the fake video posts to clarify the same, with a community member that the voiceover is from the account Los Scandalous on Instagram;

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Kendrick Lamar and Drake's recent beef explored amid the fake video circulation

The rapper and Kendrick Lamar's latest beef started in October 2023, after the former teamed up with the rapper J Cole on the track First Person Shooter. The feud apparently ignited due to these lyrics of the single:

"Love when they argue the hardest MC/ Is it K-Dot? Is it Aubrey? Or me?/ We the big three like we started a league/ but right now, I feel like Muhammad Ali.”

Kendrick Lamar responded to the track when he was featured in the track Like That by Metro Boomin and Future. The singer sang that he was the only 'big one' on the track, contradicting the lyrics by Drake and J Cole.

Drake seemingly responded to Lamar's track during an appearance in Florida as part of his It's All A Blur tour, stating to the crowd:

"Because you know how I’m feeling. I got my f–king head up high, my back straight, I’m 10 f–king toes down in Florida or anywhere else I go, and I know that no matter what, there’s not a n—a on this earth that could ever f–k with me in my life."

Drake subsequently released his diss track Push Ups, followed by another track called Taylor Made Freestyle. The latter track used AI AI-generated voice of the late Tupac Shakur's vocals, which led to the estate of the singer threatening to sue Drake, leading to the track being ultimately scrubbed.

Kendrick Lamar released the diss track Euphoria, where he criticized Drake for using the N-word and called out the Canadian rapper as a manipulator and fabricator of stories:

“Fabricatin' stories on the family front 'cause you heard Mr. Morale/ A pathetic master manipulator, I can smell the tales on you now/ You'rе not a rap artist, you a scam artist with the hopes of being accеpted/Tommy Hilfiger stood out, but FUBU never had been your collection."

The same week, Kendrick Lamar released another track titled 6:16 in LA, a track which includes Jack Antonoff, a close collaborator of Taylor Swift, as a producer in a seeming dig at the title of Drake's last diss track titled Taylor Made Freestyle.

The back-and-forth diss track exchange continued with Family Matters by the rapper, then Meet the Grahams and Not Like US by Lamar. Metro Boomin stepped into it as well, releasing BBL Drizzy Beat Giveaway on May 5, 2024. The rapper currently has the latest diss track, The Heart Part 6, while Lamar released the Not Like Us music video on July 4, 2024.