Drake and Kendrick Lamar. Kendrick Lamar and Drake.
Considering the fact that the Compton native’s debut album Segment.80 arrived alongside the Toronto lifer’s opus Consider Treatment in 2011, the two rappers have been the topic of breathless comparisons from new music lovers. They collaborated, won awards, established documents, and outlined hip hop’s professional may well in the 2010s.
Unless you have been dwelling underneath a rock about the last month, you doubtlessly know that the two icons have erupted in open warfare—trading ever more sordid allegations in one particular of the most jaw-dropping rap feuds in historical past. Now, a sagacious slight league baseball workforce is trying to find to consider advantage of the beef’s publicity.
On Tuesday, the Higher-A Hudson Valley Renegades of the South Atlantic League declared “Beef Evening” on May perhaps 16 versus the Jersey Shore BlueClaws—a advertising commemorating the rivalry.
Lovers can vote for which artist they desire when they invest in tickets—which are priced at $6 for Drake’s nickname for Toronto and $6.16 for Lamar’s monitor “6:16 in LA.” Also, if a fan’s decided on artist releases a track before the recreation, they receive a absolutely free burger.
Whilst Los Angeles enjoys its working day in the sun (most nonpartisan analysts agree Lamar is “winning” the feud), kudos to the rap haven of Fishkill, N.Y. for getting a way into a pop society moment to try to remember.
