The Heart Part 6

Album: released as a single (2024)
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Songfacts®:

  • "The Heart Part 6" is Drake's response to Kendrick Lamar's attacks during their rap war. He dropped the track on May 5, 2024.
  • K-Dot threw some serious punches with "Meet The Grahams" and "Not Like Us" – a secret daughter, pill-popping, sex predator accusations, the whole nine yards.

    Here's the Drizzy defense breakdown:

    Secret Daughter? Drake claims the whole thing was a story his team planted on Lamar to hoax him.

    Predator Claims? Drake throws shade back, suggesting Lamar's projecting his own demons from his 2022 song "Mother I Sober."

    Drugs & Weinstein? Drake denies the pill-popping rumors and throws Lamar's Harvey Weinstein comparison out the window.
  • Drake isn't playing innocent either. He doubles down on his claim on "Family Matters" that Lamar's business partner, Dave Free, fathered one of his kids and repeats his accusations about Lamar abusing his fiancée, Whitney Alford.
  • Drake ends the track by bragging about how he motivated K-Dot to drop some music. He claims everything he's said is true, while Lamar's just spewing lies.
  • The title references Lamar's "The Heart" song series, which started in April 2010. He released the most recent installment in the series, "The Heart Part 5," in May 2022.
  • "The Heart Part 6" samples Aretha Franklin's 1967 song "Prove It," basically daring Lamar to back up his accusations.
  • Drake's in-house producer, Boi-1da, laces the track with a beat that screams defiance.
  • With "The Heart Part 6," Drake and Lamar are even with four diss tracks a piece. Lamar previously dropped "Euphoria," "6:16 in LA" "Meet The Grahams" and "Not Like Us" while prior to this song, Drake put out "Push Ups," "Taylor Made Freestyle," and "Family Matters."
  • Both critics and fans criticized "The Heart Part 6." Drake later removed the song's promotional post from Instagram, a move interpreted by many as an admission of the song's failure.
  • Kendrick Lamar continued his "Heart" series with "Heart Pt. 6" included as the tenth track on his 2024 album GNX.

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