6:16 in Los Angeles: Kendrick Lamar escalates feud with Drake as he drops his second diss track in a week

Kendrick Lamar has doubled down on his feud with Drake by releasing a second diss track in a week, this time taking aim at the Canadian superstar’s inner circle.

The new song, which he released on Instagram on Friday, is titled “6:16 in LA” and parodies Drake’s “time-stamped songs,” like 2023’s “8 AM in Charlotte” or “5 AM in Toronto” from 2015.

Turning up the heat a bit more after the hard-hitting “Euphoria,” Kendrick takes several jabs at Drake’s record label, OVO Sound, which he runs with a large “team” of artists, friends and hired associates.

“Did you ever think OVO was working for me?” Lamar asks in his latest track, calling Drake a “fake thug” who “must be a terrible person.”

“Everyone on your team is whispering that you deserve it,” he continues, adding that Drake “can’t ‘Toosie Slide’ his way out of this.”

Lamar also suggests that the people Drake does business with are untrustworthy and that if the rapper were “street smart,” he would see that “twenty” of his “entourage” are trying to “rip him off.”

In 2015, when Drake got into a feud with Meek Mill, he released two diss tracks, “Charged Up” and “Back to Back,” before Mill had a chance to respond.

In “6:16 LA,” Lamar references the historical conflict, having himself used the same strategy with the release of his latest song so soon after “Euphoria.”

“’Back To Back,’ I like that record / I’m gonna go back to that, for the record,” he raps.

Drake and Lamar have been involved in a simmering feud for many years.

In March, Lamar took aim at Drake and rap rival J Cole in a new song, stating that instead of representing the “big three” of the genre, he’s simply “a big me.”

The song, “Like That”, appeared on Future and Metro Boomin’s collaborative album. We don’t trust you.

Lamar responded directly to J Cole’s verse on “First Person Shooter” from Drake’s 2023 album. For all dogs.

On that song, Cole rapped: “I love it when they argue with the toughest MC / Is it K-Dot? Is it Aubrey? Or me? / Us big three, it’s like we started a league, but right now I feel like Muhammad Ali.”

Lamar is known by his nickname K-Dot, while Aubrey is Drake’s birth name.