Rapper Kendrick Lamar released a new diss track against Toronto-based rapper Drake (a.k.a. Aubrey Graham) on Tuesday, titled “Euphoria”. It’s the latest in the back-and-forth beef between the two rappers, which was reignited a little over a month ago and has since dragged in more than a dozen other hip-hop artists—but Torontonians seem less concerned about the Drake disses and more on how Lamar name-dropped New Ho King—a popular Toronto Chinese restaurant—on the track.
At one point in the near-six-minute-long track, Lamar raps in what is meant to be a Toronto accent, “I be at New Ho King eatin’ fried rice with a dip sauce and blammy, crodie.”
The name drop has impressed more than a few fans on social media:
“The Kendrick diss track is so surgically precise an attack on Drake that he even mentions the New Ho King on Spadina, I am very very impressed,” one user on X wrote.
The Kendrick diss track is so surgically precise an attack on Drake that he even mentions the New Ho King on Spadina, I am very very impressed pic.twitter.com/EiMUgk7E3C
— Jesse Hawken (@jessehawken) April 30, 2024
“I be at new Ho king eating fried rice with a dip sauce and Blamy Crodie” Kendrick got the drop on Drake pic.twitter.com/KWQ8IBdfes
— power (@UrrbanLegenD) May 1, 2024
Everyone in Toronto when they hear the New Ho King shoutout https://t.co/FG8wWaaoiW pic.twitter.com/Ch0CyxeLHo
— Nick McAnulty (@NickMcAnulty) April 30, 2024
Also on the track, Lamar appears to call Drake a manipulator and a liar, goes after his parenting skills, and attacks his biracial and Canadian background.
“I got a son to raise, but I can see you don’t know nothin’ bout that,” Lamar raps on the track.
Drake and Lamar have been feuding for years, but Lamar took it a step further in March when he was featured on Future’s no. 1 track “Like That”, with his lyrics, “…’Fore all your dogs gettin’ buried / That’s a K with all these nines, he gon’ see Pet Sematary,” apparently referencing “First Person Shooter”, a collaboration between Drake and J. Cole that was included on Drake’s 2023 album “For All the Dogs”. In that song, J. Cole referenced Lamar, Drake, and himself as the “big three”, which Lamar apparently took offense too.
About a dozen artists have since become entangled in the feud, with Drake, Lamar, J Cole, Future, Rick Ross, Chris Brown, and fellow Canadian the Weeknd leading the pack. Last week, Drake removed his ‘Taylor Made Freestyle’ diss track from his social media channels after Tupac Shakur’s estate threatened to sue him for using an AI-generated version of the late rapper’s voice on his Kendrick Lamar diss track.