Drake and Kendrick Lamar‘s feud has gotten so much attention, it has even prompted a reaction from Tom Hanks.
In text messages shared on social media by his son Chet on Monday (May 20), the legendary actor can be seen asking the 33-year-old to break down the high-profile beef to him.
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“Big Main, can you explain the Drake/Kendrick Lamar feud to me?” the Saving Private Ryan star wrote to his son.
Chet then responded with a lengthy and amusing explanation of the battle.
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“Yeah, so Drake and this other dude J Cole been saying they along with Kendrick are the ‘Big 3’ in Rap. Then Kendrick put out a song saying, ‘Fuck the Big 3, it’s just big ME’ initiating the beef,” he replied.
“Then Drake was like, ‘you got small feet cuz you’re like 5 foot 5 or whatever.’ And then Kendrick was like, you’re a dead beat dad and made fun of his Canadian accent.”
He continued: “So Drake came back and was like, ‘oh yeah? Well I heard you beat your wife’ but literally like 30 seconds later Kendrick put out a diss overshadowing Drakes diss where he pretty much methodically dismantled Drakes entire psyche and called him a pedophile for flirting with young girls and revealing Drake had another kid that he was hiding from the world, which turned out to be false, and Drake came back and was like ‘hahaha I gotcho ass I had people give you false info to make you look stupid.’
“But it didn’t even matter cuz then Kendrick dropped another West Coast banger where he really went in on labeling Drake a pedophile that was pretty much the sonic equivalent of when you took me to your high school in Oakland and we walked in on the basketball game and everybody started going nuts.”
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Chet’s explanation concluded with him joking: “Like if you heard it you would just automatically know how to Crip walk with a stank face while clutching an Oscar in each hand with Marshawn Lynch, then dap him up and tell him ‘Town Bidness’ which solidified the win not only for Kendrick but the entire West Coast.”
His Oscar-winning father then replied with: “Holy cow! These are fighting words. People taking sides?? Who’s winning??”
In turn, Chet remarked: “Did you not just read what I said.”
While Drake and Kendrick Lamar’s beef has seen no shortage of opinions from rap fans, with many deeming the latter to have won, Tom Hanks isn’t the only unlikely figure whose radar it has reached.
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Earlier this month, President Joe Biden’s campaign used Kendrick’s chart-topping diss song “Not Like Us” in a social media video attacking Donald Trump, his likely opponent in the upcoming presidential election.
