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Rap beefs are not gained by the quantities, but if they were being, Kendrick Lamar would be jogging absent with this a person. The rapper’s “euphoria” debuted at No. 11 on this week’s “Hot 100” — 6 places higher than the Drake diss monitor “Push Ups” at No. 17. That’s an specially major accomplishment considering “euphoria” was performing off a shortened week of streams soon after remaining dropped on a Tuesday, April 30. Positive, these tracks are outdated news in beef time, but Lamar may be in for an even even larger get when his hottest, “Not Like Us,” hits the chart subsequent week. That song has currently damaged the solitary-day American streaming report on Spotify with 6.59 million, beating … Drake, who experienced previously held the title for his 2021 Lil Toddler collab, “Girls Want Women.” With quantities like that, “Not Like Us” could notch a leading place on the chart or even a No. 1 debut. And recall, that would be Lamar’s next in this beef immediately after the tune that commenced it all, “Like That,” with Metro Boomin and Future, invested three months at No. 1. Positive, Drake’s “Family Matters” has been putting up numbers this 7 days far too, specifically on YouTube, but if “Not Like Us” retains going like that, it won’t be ample. Rappers may lie, but the numbers do not.
