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Hip-hop podcaster DJ Akademiks recently mentioned that if Drake were to back out of his feud with Kendrick Lamar as J. Cole did, he would not support the rapper anymore. Akademiks is well-known as a loyalist of the Canadian rapper.
During his Kick stream on January 15, DJ Akademiks reacted to a clip of J Cole backing out of the infamous Drake vs Kendrick Lamar feud that was the talk of the town in 2024. Akademiks said:
“Yo, I swear, if we ever see some sh*t like this from Drake, I promise you I’ll delete every song and ni**a I might go through electroconvulsive therapy ni**a to delete my thoughts. In my memories of listening to Drake. I can’t f*ck with a rapper who talking like this. Nah, no way. This couldn’t be my favorite rapper. Hell no. You.”
Akademiks’ comments were in reference to J Cole claiming that being involved in the Drizzy and Lamar feud is the “lamest sh*t” he’s done in his entire life. Cole was originally a part of the feud as Kendrick Lamar dissed him alongside Drizzy in the track Like That by Future and Metro Boomin.
This began the feud, with both Drizzy and Cole hitting back at Lamar. However, Cole took back his words and apologized for getting involved in it after dissing Lamar. However, K Dot and Drizzy continued to take shots at each other after that, with the feud seemingly ending in May 2024.
J Cole’s involvement in Drake and Kendrick Lamar’s 2024 beef explained
The Drake vs. Kendrick Lamar feud began when K-Dot hit at Drizzy and J Cole for one of their collaborative tracks. In Drizzy’s 2023 album, For All The Dogs, Cole appeared in the track First Person Shooter. In the lyrics, he named himself, Lamar, and Drizzy as the “big three” in hip-hop history.
“Love when they argue the hardest MC / Is it K. Dot [Lamar]? Is it Aubrey [Drake]? Or me? / We the big three, like we started a league,” he rapped.
While Lamar did not comment on it back then, he hit back at the lyrics in the 2024 song, Like That, in an uncredited verse. He rapped:
“Lost too many soldiers not to play it safe/ If he walk around with that stick, it ain’t André 3K/ Think I won’t drop the location? I still got PTSD/ Motherf*cker the big three, ni**a, it’s just big me. (…) “F*ck sneak dissin’, first-person shooter, I hope they came with three switches.”
Thereafter, both Drake and J Cole hit back at Kendrick Lamar for his comments. In his track 7 Minute Drill, J Cole taunted Lamar, claiming his music has lost its charm, and accused him of fending for attention. Cole’s lyrics said:
“The rap beef ain’t realer than the s*it I seen in Cumberland/He averagin’ one hard verse like every thirty months or somethin’/If he wasn’t dissin’, then we wouldn’t be discussin’ him/Lord, don’t make me have to smoke this ni**a ’cause I f*ck with him/But push come to shove, on this mic, I will humble him.”
However, J Cole’s involvement in the battle ended here. During the Dreamville festival in the same year, the rapper apologized to K Dot for his response and deleted the track. But this did not put an end to Lamar’s beef with Drizzy, which continued until May 2024 through tracks and beyond that with multiple controversies.
Lamar received widespread acclaim for his diss tracks aimed at Drake, particularly for Not Like Us, which won five Grammys last year. He also performed the song in the 2025 Super Bowl halftime show. K Dot notably accused the Toronto rapper of pedophilia in the track, leading to mixed opinions and controversies about the lyrics.
Meanwhile, the Toronto rapper fought a long legal battle with his label, Universal Music Group, accusing them of allegedly promoting Kendrick Lamar’s Not Like Us. However, the case was dismissed in court in October 2025.
As of now, the two have not targeted each other in their music since their feud ended. Drizzy is expected to drop his next album, Iceman, soon. Meanwhile, Lamar’s last release was GNX in November 2024.
Edited by Pratyasha Sarkar
