Lil Wayne is finally breaking his silence on Drake and Kendrick Lamar’s rap beef.
After months of staying mum about the war of words, the hip-hop legend, Lil Wayne, broke his silence by seemingly affirming his support for his fellow Young Money rapper, 37, during a performance at Las Vegas’ Zouk Nightclub on Saturday, July 13.
While onstage, Wayne tweaked the intro of he and Drake’s “The Motto” collaboration with lyrics from Lamar’s “Not Like Us” diss track aimed at Drake — but with a slight twist.
Instead of rapping along to the song’s chorus (“They not like us”), the hitmaker switched up the lyrics to say, “They don’t like us” while dancing and flashing his OVO owl penchant chain to the crowd, per fan-captured footage. He then segued into his verse from the 2011 hit.
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Wayne’s sign of support for Drake comes after Lamar name-dropped the icon in his chart-topping anthem, “Not Like Us,” saying to Drake, “F—ed on Wayne girl while he was in jail, that’s connivin’ / Then get his face tatted like a bitch apologizin’.”
The lyric is seemingly a reference to when Drake was allegedly romantically involved with Wayne’s then-girlfriend Tammy Torres after the “A Milli” rapper went to jail in 2010 behind gun charges in New York City. However, all seems to be water under the bridge between the former Young Money Entertainment labelmates.
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The pair recently reunited again during the Sunrise, Fla., stop of Drake’s It’s All a Blur — Big as the What? tour in April, where they performed some of their old 2010s collaborations together — including “She Will,” “Right Above It” and “I’m on One.”
Since then, Drake has been embroiled in a battle of diss tracks with Lamar, who kicked things off in March with a surprise verse on Future and Metro Boomin’s hit song “Like That” filled with shots at the For All the Dogs rapper.
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The two continued to go back-and-forth with more scathing diss tracks in the weeks that followed. However, things seemed to end (of wax, at least) with Drake’s “The Heart Part 6” and Lamar’s “Not Like Us,” which peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 again following the release of its Compton-set music video on July 4.
Lamar performed the hit track (at least five times) during his epic Ken & Friends: The Pop Out concert held in Inglewood, Calif., on June 19, where he was joined onstage by dozens of musicians from historically feuding sections of South Los Angeles for a moment of “unity.”
“But you ain’t never seen this many sections on one stage. Let the world see this. We need to show everything,” Lamar told the Kia Forum crowd. “This is unity. Unity from all of sides of LA, East LA to West, Crips, Bloods, this makes me emotional.”