Kendrick Lamar kicked off May 3, 2024 with the surprise release of “6:16 in LA,” a diss track that followed his April 30 track “euphoria” and preceded a third Drake response—14 hours later, Drake would upload “Family Matters ” to YouTube, which Kendrick then used as fuel to unleash the sinister six-minute track, “meet the grahams.”
As the title implies, Kendrick sends a personal message to each member of the Graham family. He exposes scathing allegations about Drake, many of which were never previously reported. The most notable allegation is that Drake supposedly has an 11-year-old daughter and unspecified other children. Drake made light of the allegation to discredit it with an Instagram Story post shortly after the track dropped.
Beyond addressing the Grahams, Kendrick attacks other aspects of Drake’s character. He claims Drizzy is addicted to prescription pills—perhaps the ones displayed on the song’s cover—compares him to disgraced movie producer Harvey Weinstein, claims he has sex offenders on his OVO Sound payroll, and that he is a sexual deviant.
This track’s cover art appears to be a zoomed-out version of the artwork that accompanied “6:16 in LA,” displaying items rumored to belong to Drake that were stolen from his father’s suitcase, according to a close Source; namely, DJ Akademiks. Among these items are Ozempic and Zolpidem pills, as well as receipts of outrageous jewelry purchases. These items are resting on a multi-colored button-up T-shirt depicting a cartoon dog urinating on a red fire hydrant. This might coincide with the name of Drake’s October 2023 album, For All The Dogs, which features J. Cole on “First Person Shooter” trading disses directed at K-Dot. Furthermore, this could be a subtle allusion to long-standing rumors that TI let his friend urinate on Drake, according to a verse on October 2020’s “We Did It Big”:
So drunk in LA, end up pissin’ on Drake, shit
Fuck it, that’s still my brother
