The Drake and Kendrick Lamar beef was pretty exciting at first, but over the course of the month, it’s started to lose steam. Now it seems like the rappers have really started to phone it in: Drake’s latest diss track seems to pin the cancellation of Freaks and Geeks on Kendrick Lamar.
Damn. Drake’s really got to be out of ideas if that’s the best he can do.
Although the beef started off with serious accusations about pedophilia, secret children, and domestic abuse, it seems like things are really slowing down—but with no obvious winner, the rappers are still going at it. Unfortunately, though, Drake’s newest diss track is almost entirely about how Kendrick caused the cancellation of the 1999 cult classic Freaks and Geeks, which might hit harder if Kendrick had had any association with the show whatsoever.
Check out the lyrics to the track, titled “You Going Down In Apatown”—a reference to Judd Apatow, the executive producer of Freaks and Geeks—below:
“You got yourself a bad reputationDisappointing a whole fucking nation
Canceling the show
with young James Franco
Ain’t no way we were fatigued
With the work of Paul Feig
They were just getting started, bro
Gotta let Seth Rogen grow
Said the show was gonna hurt the brand
But you just didn’t understand
It wasn’t joke-a-minute, dude
But it had heart and attitude
Busy Philipps deserved so much more
But we didn’t even get an encore
Martin Starr! That should’ve been a household name
That shit’s on you man, you’re the one to blame
All I know is you’re no Lindsay Weir
Moves like that, man, you’re Lindsay Weird.”
Yikes. Guess we can’t officially confirm or deny these accusations, but given the fact that Kendrick Lamar was 15 at the time and not an NBC executive, it seems incredibly unlikely he canceled Freaks and Geeks. Maybe it’s time to wave the white flag if this is the best diss you’ve got.
