Drake has launched a brand new music known 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 music beneath.
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 appeared to my proper, you n****s was standing beside me/How can some individuals I like hold round pussies who strive 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 massive Drake-taunting Pop Out concert, in Inglewood, California, that featured performances and appearances from former Drake collaborators, equivalent 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 delicate pictures at Drake on Future and Metro Boomin’s “Like That.” Importantly, Future and Metro Boomin had been each, at one cut-off date, distinguished Drake collaborators, and their flip towards the Canadian artist led to different former friends taking sides within the feud. The Weeknd, for instance, appeared on Future and Metro Boomin’s We Still Don’t Trust 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 music is launched through Drake’s OVO Sound. Like all of Drake’s current 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.
