It seems that Lil Wayne has finally revealed his stance on the rivalry between Drake and Kendrick Lamar.
The Young Money founder appeared to be rapping the refrain from Kendrick Lamar’s smash hit song “Not Like Us” while holding out his OVO chain to the audience during his performance of his 2011 Drake collaboration “The Motto” in Las Vegas over the weekend.
Fans’ responses to the gesture were divided, with some unsure of Wayne’s intentions. Some people think he was supporting his former understudy Drizzy, while others saw it as a co-sign for K. Dot, who worked with him on “Mona Lisa.”
But when you watch the video more closely, you can hear Weezy twisting Kendrick’s chorus to mean, “They don’t like us.”
On “Not Like Us,” Kendrick makes reference to Lil Wayne, saying that Drake previously had an affair with the fiancée of his former label boss.
“Fucked on Wayne girl while he was in jail, that’s connivin’/ Then get his face tatted like a bitch apologizin,’” he raps.
In his 2016 book Gone ‘Til November: A Journal of Rikers Island, Wayne revealed this information, albeit he made it clear that it occurred prior to him and his ex-girlfriend starting a romantic relationship.
“I woke up feeling just as screwed up as I had felt all day. It was hell, that’s for sure! He wrote, “I’m used to fighting with my girl [daily], but learning that she fucked Drake was the worst thing I could have learned.”
To be honest, not because it was Drake, but because it upset me as a man. It would have hurt the same if it had been any male. She said that happened long before we were dating, but she never disclosed it to me. “Yeah, it’s true. Don’t fuck with her like that because I did fuck her,” Drizzy said when he came to visit me. Oh no!
“This is the kind of sh*t a man never wants to find out while he’s incarcerated,” he continued. Or perhaps not; after all, who knows what I would have done if I hadn’t been imprisoned at the moment. I told them to just lock me in as soon as I found out, and for the past few days, I’ve essentially been alone in my cell. […] I’ll be honest, as a man: That stuff truly screwed me over.
Lil Wayne recently backed Drake by listing him as one of his all-time favorite rappers—a list that, perhaps tellingly, omits Kendrick Lamar—despite the fact that this is his first public commentary on the dispute.
“These are my all-time top five rappers: Jay-Z, Missy Elliott, Eminem, uh… The Notorious B.I.G. and Drizzy — yes, and there’s no particular order here — he stated on NFL player Cam Heyward’s podcast, Not Just Football.
