The Kendrick Lamar and Drake beef drew a line within the sand in hip-hop tradition… Or it simply offered a special approach for Web creators to assault one another over. We acquired an instance of each ramifications lately because of rapper and YouTuber Scru Face Jean dropping the “wAKked out murals” diss observe towards DJ Akademiks. For these unaware, Ak spoke about Jean throughout his livestream, responding to his criticism that the streamer appears to be purposefully obfuscating his loyalties to Drizzy. Scru Face selected to reply by rapping over Okay.Dot’s GNX intro “wacced out murals,” and it touched on rather a lot.
Furthermore, Scru Face Jean’s huge factors involved DJ Akademiks’ sexual assault allegations, his exploitation of violence in Chicago, how Drake by no means reveals up for him regardless of his staunch assist, and a few common references and jokes about viral Ak moments or the kind of content material he makes. We will already hear the media character ranting on his stream in response, downplaying the MC’s success or expertise or what have you ever. The Kendrick Lamar debate actually created plenty of enemies on social media, even when lots of these conflicts – this included – are fairly small scale… For now.
Scru Face Jean’s DJ Akademiks Diss, “wAKked out murals”
Past Scru Face Jean’s disses, DJ Akademiks has his eye on another Kendrick Lamar and Drake-related angles. For instance, he lately claimed that Kendrick’s workforce allegedly confirmed to him that he really meant to diss Andrew Schulz on “wacced out murals.” The comic’s response to these perceived jabs triggered an entire lot of controversy of their very own, and Ak is alleging that this debacle sprouted by design and never by misinterpreted coincidence. However once more, one other small narrative within the grand scheme of issues.
With all this in thoughts, we’ll see if DJ Akademiks responds to Scru Face Jean or if he simply tosses “wAKked out murals” to the facet. In case you tally up all of the discussions round Kendrick Lamar and Drake this yr, you will discover that the superstars themselves have not actually accomplished a lot to push their narratives. Quite, it is their followers who actually flesh the discourse out, so we might be keen on some extra first-hand remarks. Do not guess on these, although…
About The Writer
Gabriel Bras Nevares is a employees author for HotNewHipHop. He joined HNHH whereas finishing his B.A. in Journalism & Mass Communication at The George Washington College in the summertime of 2022.
Born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Gabriel treasures the crossover between his native reggaetón and hip-hop information protection, comparable to his evaluate for Unhealthy Bunny’s hometown live performance in 2024. However extra particularly, he digs for the deeper facet of hip-hop conversations, whether or not that’s the “loss of life” of the style in 2023, the lyrical and parasocial intricacies of the Kendrick Lamar and Drake battle, or the various transferring elements of the Younger Thug and YSL RICO case.
Past partaking and breaking information protection, Gabriel makes essentially the most out of his live performance obsessions, reviewing and recapping festivals like Rolling Loud Miami and Camp Flog Gnaw. He’s additionally developed a robust editorial voice via album evaluations, think-pieces, and interviews with a few of the style’s brightest upstarts and most enduring obscured gems like Homeboy Sandman, Bktherula, Bas, and Devin Malik.
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