The Alchemist has revealed the origins behind Kendrick Lamar‘s “Meet the Grahams” Drake diss.
In an interview that made its way online on Thursday (September 26), the legendary producer explained how Kendrick ended up using his beat in his high-profile feud with the 6 God.
“That was a gospel record. Swear to God,” he began. The Alchemist was then asked to clarify how K. Dot decided to record over the beat, to which he replied: “I sent it to him beforehand and he had it for a minute. I heard it when everybody else heard it.”
Describing his reaction to the eerie, spine-chilling song, he said: “It was a trip … I was getting a haircut at the studio and it came on the phone. We was listening online, someone was streaming. I thought my phone was bugging. I didn’t know.”
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Again in Might, Kendrick unleashed “Meet the Grahams” lower than an hour after Drake’s personal diss track “Family Matters” appeared on-line, fueling his earlier declare that he had a mole in Drizzy’s camp.
The six-and-a-half-minute track discovered the Compton rapper penning verses to Drake’s son Adonis, his dad and mom Sandra and Dennis, in addition to an alleged secret daughter, whose existence has but to be confirmed.
He then turned his consideration to Aubrey Graham himself, making explosive allegations of pedophilia, battling addictions to intercourse, medication and playing, and being an inauthentic tradition vulture.
Shortly after its launch, Akademiks went dwell on Rumble to share his response to the back-and-forth. In the course of the stream, he claimed to have acquired info from Kendrick’s concerning the which means behind the track’s cowl artwork (which options, amongst different issues, what seems to be a prescription for Ozempic, a drug ceaselessly used for weight reduction, in Drake’s title).
“Akademiks got intel from Kendrick’s camp that the details of the cover of ‘Meet the Grahams’ containing a glove, ozempic, receipts etc was stolen from a suitcase that belonged to Dennis Graham, Drake’s father,” the media persona wrote on TikTok.
“This cover art contains things that is from Drake’s pops’ suitcase, so Drake’s pops’ suitcase had these things in it,” he stated. “Don’t know how he got a hold of it, don’t know how this happened to get in Kendrick’s hand. But apparently Kendrick Lamar must’ve got a hold of Drake’s dad’s suitcase.
“So we’re talking about Dennis Graham, which is Drake’s pops […] remember all that talk about leaks in the camp?”