Kendrick Lamar and Drake‘s sizzling beef may have gripped the Hip Hop nation, but Questlove is far from impressed.
The Roots drummer sternly criticized the hotly-contested rap battle in an Instagram post on Tuesday (May 7), going as far as to declare Hip Hop “truly dead.”
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Quest’s issues lie with the way both rappers have conducted themselves, dragging each other’s family members into the feud and making scandalous yet unsubstantiated allegations on their respective diss songs.
“Nobody won the war,” he wrote. “This wasn’t about skill. This was a wrestling match level mudslinging and takedown by any means necessary — women & children (& actual facts) be damned.
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“Same audience wanting blood will soon put up ‘rip’ posts like they weren’t part of the problem. Hip Hop truly is dead.”
Challenging both Kendrick and Drake to step their game up, morally speaking, Questlove added in the caption: “Here We Are Now…Entertain us?”
Kendrick Lamar and Drake are both guilty of “mudslinging” in the feud. On “Family Matters,” the 6 God suggested one of K. Dot’s children might actually belong to his longtime manager and pgLang partner Dave Free, and even accused the Pulitzer Prize winner of beating his fiancée Whitney Alford.
Kendrick, meanwhile, has accused Drake of being a sex predator who preys on underage girls, keeps the company of fellow pedophiles and leads a hedonistic lifestyle filled with drink, drugs, gambling and prostitution.
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He also penned verses to Drizzy’s family members, including his six-year-old son Adonis, on “Meet the Grahams” while claiming he secretly has an 11-year-old daughter who he neglects.
Questlove’s criticism echoes that of Charlamagne Tha God, who has also taken issue with some of Kendrick and Drake’s lyrical jabs.
Speaking on The Breakfast Club earlier this week, the radio host said: “I don’t like seeing these brothers Me Too-ing each other over a rap feud. To me, that’s corny. If you’re going to call somebody a pedophile, if you’re going to call someone a woman beater, you got to have some real proof.
“You’re going to accuse my friend and my girl of having a baby, and me thinking that that child is mine — those are some heavy accusations.”
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He added: “It’s not like they’re trying to hold each other accountable; they’re just throwing these types of accusations around to attempt to ruin the image of the other, and that’s whack to me. Other than that, it’s been great.”
Charlamagne did, however, praise it as “the best rap battle I’ve ever witnessed” and declared Kendrick the winner so far — an opinion shared by many in Hip Hop.
