Aretha sings “Let me see you proooove it,” setting the tone for Drake’s angle right here that Kendrick’s been hitting him with baseless accusations. “The Coronary heart Half 6” is in full response mode to every little thing that is transpired over the past three days, together with direct rebuttals to Kendrick’s “Not Like Us;” it was clearly written within the final 24 hours. Drake sounds…a bit of over all of it, whereas however nonetheless promising that shit is about to get darkish. (That is now his second monitor in a row the place he plainly states he’d slightly be on trip someplace than holed up in chilly Toronto writing disses.) Drake, buddy, home abuse and pedophilia accusations are within the air—we have been pitch black for the previous couple of songs already.
You’ll suppose Drake would sound a bit of extra celebratory than he does to start out the track, the place he takes a victory lap for allegedly going full Sydney Bristow and triple-crossing Kendrick into leaping on Faux Youngster Intel. “We plotted for every week after which we fed you the knowledge…we considered giving a faux identify or a vacation spot/however you so thirsty, you not involved with investigation.” Who’s mendacity or who was fooled? Solely the Pusha T Investigative Crew can resolve this.
Drake would not dwell there, although, as a substitute transferring on to Kendrick’s household, doubling down on the 2 angles that fashioned the premise of “Household Issues”: that Kendrick has crushed his accomplice Whitney prior to now, he is estranged from their household, and one among his two youngsters is definitely fathered by his buddy and inventive accomplice Dave Free. To drive this final level house, “The Coronary heart Half 6” art work is an Instagram screenshot of Dave leaving coronary heart emojis underneath, presumably, an image Whitney posted.
Persevering with his by means of line of utilizing Kendrick’s confessional raps on Mr. Morale as ammo, Drake refers again to “Mom I Sober,” the monitor the place Kendrick unpacks his mom’s sexual abuse and the way it knowledgeable an incident in his childhood the place his mom was frightened he was being abused by a member of the family regardless that Kendrick says he wasn’t. Dr. Drake’s learn: He really was molseted, and that is why he is so hell-bent on calling OVO “licensed pedophiles.”
To listen to Drake inform it, he is “solely fuckin with Whitneys, not Millie Bobby Browns, I would by no means look twice at no teenager.” Elsewhere on the track, he says: “If I used to be fucking younger ladies, I promise I would have been arrested/ I am approach too well-known for this shit you simply instructed.” Drake goes on to parrot a sentiment that is been gaining reputation on social media for the previous couple of days, that there is an inherent hypocrisy to Kendrick taking place this path of assault provided that he famously protested Spotify’s transient elimination of R. Kelly and XXXTentacion’s music as censorship that he couldn’t assist.
Drake ends the monitor with one final sick joke: “Whitney you possibly can hit me if you happen to want a favor/And once I say I will hit ya again, it is so much safer” earlier than going full Mob boss mode on the outro with some robust speak. Most crucially, he tries to take the wind out of Kendrick’s inevitable response, wisecracking that Kendrick most likely has “10 extra information to drop.” Any minute now…
Could 12: Beef over?
One of many “ten extra” Kendrick information Drake snidely alluded to on “The Coronary heart Half 6” by no means got here; Drake’s defensive tenor on the monitor amidst the surging reputation of “Not Like Us” was sufficient for a lot of rap followers, pundits and publications alike to declare Kendrick the winner. Now, every week later, Drake is probably not conceding defeat technically however he is apparently calling it quits.
