Azealia Banks slammed for calling Kendrick Lamar a ‘nepo baby’ amid Drake feud – as fans point out his parents’ humble beginnings

Azealia Banks has inserted herself in Kendrick Lamar and Drake’s beef by calling the former a ‘nepo baby‘ leading to ire from many social media users including her own fans.

 

In her social media post she makes the puzzling statement which read: ‘Kendrick is a nepo baby and that’s the only reason why he’s in the forefront.’

The HUMBLE. hitmaker comes from humble beginnings as his father Kenneth ‘Kenny’ Duckworth is a former gang hustler who had worked at KFC.

His mother Paula Oliver is a hairdresser who had previously worked at McDonald’s.

Both of his parents are from the South Side of Chicago and relocated to Compton, California  in 1984.

Many flooded to Azealia’s comments section to question her statement as one said: ‘Nepo baby? I’m not even a huge Kendrick fan but GKMC [Kendrick’s 2012 album good kid, m.A.A.d city] alone earned him a seat at the table.

‘I like your work, but… frankly, you’ve never performed at that level [shrug emoji]’

Another couldn’t believe that Azealia was accusing Kendrick of having celebrity parents who have succeeded in the same career as they wrote: ‘Kendrick is nepo baby??’ 

She certainly seemed to be taking Drake’s side in the beef as the rest of Azealia’s statement read: ‘Kendrick Lamar is so puny Runty and unf***able there’s nothing he can do to “win” anything.

‘I’m completely sorry but the little man anger is never ever going to be a thing.’ 

She added a lengthy caption as she praised rapper Cory Gunz writing: ‘Because if we really wanna get into it. @corygunz is washing everybody. Cory Gunz does not get enough credit and I’m really tired of watching these rap boys arguing on Twitter like girls and not being accused of having mental health issues or being demonized as villains when All I did was speak my opinion. 

‘These dudes are out here ordering gang hits on one another. They’re all in love with each other starting p**** a** beef when not a single one of them is f***in with Cory Gunz, Styles P, Cyhi Da Prince, Future or any other male rapper that acts like he has some d*** in his pants. Ffs’

On Tuesday Kendrick finally dropped a retaliatory diss track against nemesis Drake – questioning the biracial rapper’s ethnicity in shock lyrics.

Drake, 37, slammed the 36-year-old Grammy winner’s physical stature and suggested that his pop collaborations have caused him to lose his edge in his barbed tracks n songs Taylor Made Freestyle and Push Ups.- which in itself came after Lamar slammed Drake on the album We Don’t Trust You in March.

Now Lamar has dropped track Euphoria which addresses Drake directly and whether he ‘feels black enough’ – as well as branding him an absent father and ‘master manipulator’.

Lamar raps: ‘How many more fairytale stories about your life ’til we’ve had enough? How many more Black features ’til you finally feel that you’re Black enough?’

Drake was previously slammed by Pusha T  for a 2007 photo featuring him in blackface while Pusha T also revealed Drake had a child on 2018 diss track, The Story of Adidon – which was unknown to the public at the time.

Elsewhere in the track, Lamar raps: ‘Know you a master manipulator and habitual liar, too/But don’t tell no lie ’bout me, and I won’t tell truths ’bout you.”’

Taking direct aim at Drake’s legal threat from Tupac Shakur’s estate over using AI generated vocals of the late star, he rapped: ‘Somebody had told me that you got a ring/On God, I’m ready to double the wage/I’d rather do that than let a Canadian n—a make ’Pac turn in his grave.’

‘The very first time I shot me a Drac’, the homie had told me to aim it this way/I didn’t point down enough/Today, I show you I learned from those mistakes.’ 

‘This ain’t been ’bout critics, not about gimmicks, not about who the greatest / It’s always been about love and hate, now let me say I’m the biggest hater / I hate the way that you walk, the way that you talk /I hate the way that you dress I hate the way you sneak diss, if I catch flight, it’s gon’ be direct.’

Lamar also accused Drake of being an absent father to son Adonis, six, rapping: ‘I got a son to raise, but I can see you know nothin’ ’bout that.’

Even the song’s title appeared to be a jab as Drake is notably an executive producer on HBO drama, Euphoria. 

The drama appeared to ignite back in March, when Kendrick dissed Drake and J. Cole on the song Like That from Future and Metro Boomin’s album We Don’t Trust You.

The song is Drake’s second diss track against Lamar and was dropped on Instagram last week.  

‘Taylor Made Freestyle,’ he captioned the post, adding: ‘While we wait on you I guess.’

Snoop reacted to the track in humorous fashion on Instagram, stating to the camera: ‘They did what? When? How? Are you sure? Y’all have a good night.

‘Why everybody calling my phone, blowing me up? What the f**k? What happened? What’s going on? I’m going back to bed. Good night.’

Lamar threw multiple lyrical jabs to both Drake and J Cole, furiously rapping the stand out line: ‘Motherf**k the big three, n***a, it’s just big me.’

The line was seemingly a direct response to a bar Cole dropped in his collaboration with Drake called First Person Shooter.

‘Love when they argue the hardest MC / Is it K. Dot [Kendrick]? Is it Aubrey [Drake]? Or me? / We the big three, like we started a league,’ J Cole said. 

Lamar didn’t miss the chance to take another a jab at Champagne Papi, cleverly referencing his latest album title, For all the Dogs.

’Fore all your dogs gettin’ buried/ That’s a K with all these nines, he gon’ see Pet Sematary. Woof!’

Drake is complying with Tupac’s estate after he was sent a cease and desist letter for using AI to recreate the late rapper’s voice in his Lamar diss track, Taylor Made Freestyle.

After taking down the track on his social media accounts on Friday, the rapper, 37, and his team are also reportedly working with Tupac’s estate to get the song removed from all other platforms online.

Drake gave no explanation for removing the song from his Instagram and X, formerly known as Twitter, account.

According to TMZ, his team and representatives have been in direct contact with the late rap star’s estate after receiving the cease and desist demands on Wednesday and have had multiple, productive discussions.

This comes after attorneys for Tupac’s estate sent out a letter to Drake for the ‘flagrant violation’ and for insulting Lamar, who they said was ‘a good friend to the Estate’ and ‘has given nothing but respect to Tupac and his legacy publicly and privately.’

They also set a 24-hour deadline to remove the song and explain how the soundalike was created, including what recordings were used to recreate Tupac’s voice with AI. 

The letter added that the estate was ‘deeply dismayed and disappointed’ by the unauthorized usage as it was ‘a blatant abuse of the legacy of one of the greatest hip-hop artists of all time.’

Last week, Drake dropped Taylor Made Freestyle, which used artificial intelligence to clone both Tupac and Snoop Dogg‘s voices in his second diss track against Lamar.

On Wednesday, the late rapper’s estate has sent Drake a cease and desist letter seeking the removal of the song, according to Rolling Stone.

Sent by attorney Howard King, the letter gave Drake 24 hours to take the track down or else they would pursue legal action against him. 

The letter claimed the estate ‘would have never’ approved of the AI recreation of Tupac.