Gimme a hug, Gimme a hug!, pleads Drake on one track from his new album, $ome $exy $ongs 4 U. After the month and year he’s had, perhaps it’s no surprise. As rap battle humiliations go, the rapper’s defeat by hip-hop’s lyrical supremo Kendrick Lamar has become a cultural phenomenon, and even seen Drake sue Universal Music Group. Lamar’s diss track, Not Like Us, a viral hit since last summer, accuses the Canadian star of inappropriate relationships with underage girls – claims Drake denies.
First the track swept up at the Grammys, with Taylor Swift and Beyoncé dancing along. Then came Lamar’s Super Bowl half-time show, with a record 133.5 million people estimated to have tuned in to watch the whole stadium sing the lyrics accusing Drake of being a pa…
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