Who could have guessed that when Kendrick Lamar and Drake collaborated early on in their careers they would one day be sworn enemies? The beef has been brewing for years, but hip hop heads have been left with their mouths and ears wide open as they break down each new diss track. It all kicked off after Drake and J. Cole teamed up for “First Person Shooter.” Drake can be heard rapping: “Love when they argue the hardest MC/ Is it K-Dot? Is it Aubrey? Or me?"

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Kendrick didn’t hold back when given the opportunity on Future & Metro Boomin’s “Like That.” He fired a full clip of shots at both Cole and Drake. “F–k sneak dissin’, first-person shooter/ I hope they came with three switches.”

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A week later (after Cole dropped out of the diss track wars and apologised to Kendrick Lamar), Drake dropped his solo Kendrick Lamar diss called “Push Ups” to streaming services. Drake doubled down on his dislike of Lamar when he released his “Taylor Made Freestyle” on Instagram. Drake upped his creativity by using A.I. vocals to rap in the voices of Tupac and Snoop Dogg in his respective verses. However, Drake was made to eat some humble pie after Tupac's estate expressed anger at Drake using the late Tupac's voice.

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Kendrick soon seized on the backlash and released “Euphoria.” The six-minute track was scathing, with Lamar calling out Drake for using the N-word, questioning his fashion sense, his hip-hop merits and more. “Yeah, Cole and Aubrey know I’m a selfish n–a/ The crown is heavy, huh/ I pray they my real friends, if not, I’m YNW Melly/ I don’t like you poppin s–t at Pharrell, for him I’ll inherit the beef/ F–k all that pushin p, let me see you Pusha T, you better off spinning again on him you think about pushing me/He’s Terrence Thorton I’m Terence Crawford I’m whooping feet,” he rapped.

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Less than 72 hours after “Euphoria” arrived, Kendrick Lamar ambushed Drake with another diss track “6:16 in LA.” This time, he came for Drake’s camp, claiming the OVO boss has a mole dishing out dirt on him. “Have you ever thought that OVO was working for me?/ Fake bully, I hate bullies/ You must be a terrible person/ Everyone inside your team is whispering that you deserve it/Can’t Toosie Slide up out of this one, it’s just gon’ resurface.”

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Drake gave salivating fans even more to devour when he dropped “Family Matters” 14 hours after Kendrick Lamar delivered his “6:16 in LA” diss track. Drizzy picks up where he left off to finish “Push Ups” and mocks Lamar and his alleged fractured relationship with fiancee Whitney Alford, which he claims is filled with infidelity. “You the Black messiah wifing up a mixed queen/ And hit vanilla cream to help out with your self-esteem/ On some Bobby sh—, I wanna know what Whitney need,” he raps.

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Mere minutes after Drake’s “Family Matters” arrived, Kendrick Lamar returned fire with the unforgiving “Meet the Grahams. He calls out Drizzy for being a “deadbeat” father and alleges that Drake is hiding another child besides Adonis.

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“You lied about your son, you lied about your daughter, huh, you lied about them other kids that are out there hoping that you come,” Lamar raps, claiming Drake has a baby girl. Drake soon posted on Instagram that this was untrue, but hip-hop fans are wondering whether there will be another diss track (or an admission) coming soon...