Cam’ron, Ma$e Declare Kendrick Lamar Winner In Drake Feud

Cam’ron and Ma$e have reversed their stances regarding the winner of the Drake–Kendrick Lamar feud, and they feel the Compton Cowboy was victorious. On a recent episode of It Is What It Is, the two emcees opened up the show talking about where the battle left off, with Drake’s latest diss entry, “The Heart Part 6.” Ma$e described the battle as “crazy” before Cam’ron jumped in to add some observations regarding the response to their previous sentiments, in which they claimed that Drake was winning the battle. 

“It was crazy, definite,” Cam stated. “You know what I realize about sh*t? Is that, ni**as is so hot that like, whatever ni**as say about the battle, ni**as care what we say about the battle. I’m going to say what I want to say about the battle!…Y’all ni**as be tagging me like I’m in the battle.”

Murda Ma$e asked Cam who he thought won the battle, to which Cam said he would be honest before crowning Kendrick Lamar the winner. He also bluntly critiqued Drake’s latest musical offering in the feud.

“Right now, man, I’m gonna be honest…Kendrick,” Cam opined. “I don’t like what Drake dropped last night, because…It wasn’t bad, but I don’t like the way it ended. He seemed like he [was] like, ‘This the last one I’m doing.’ You can’t end it when you just want to end it. He like, ‘Yo man, I’m tired of doing this.’”

“You shouldn’t have ended it like that,” Cam added. “That’s just my opinion right now, not saying Drake ain’t my bro or nothing, but I don’t like the way he ended it if that’s the end for him. So, I’m going to go with Kendrick right now.”

Ma$e followed up with his opinion on the matter, also giving the edge to the Compton native for his strategic decisions, saying, “I’m going with Kendrick as well. It seemed like, whatever he started out doing, he picked up the speed, and really did what he was supposed to do. I thought the record that he did, the last one that he did, was the one I thought he should have done a little bit earlier...’Not Like Us,’ that was crazy…When I heard that, I was like, ‘Oh yeah, it’s going to be tough,’” Mase added. “That was the one I was expecting.”

And Ma$e isn’t speaking hyperbolically, as “Not Like Us” broke Spotify’s record for the most streamed rap song in a 24-hour period. 

Chart Data reported the new milestone on Tuesday (May 7), disclosing that Lamar’s latest diss track amassed the most streams in a day since 2008—the year Spotify launched. To add injury to the Drake insult, the song also shattered the previous record of 6.593 million single-day streams, which was held by Drake and Lil Baby’s “Girls Wants Girls.”

Watch the episode of It Is What It Is above.