Here’s everyone Drake mentions on ‘$ome $exy $ongs 4 U’: from Kendrick Lamar to Charli XCX

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Drake and PartyNextDoor have shared their first collaborative album together, ‘$ome $exy $ongs 4 U’ – check out who they’ve name-checked on the record below.The album is the pop-rap juggernaut’s first release since his highly-publicised rap battle with Kendrick Lamar.

After the latter dropped ‘Not Like Us’ – the Grammy award-winning diss track he performed during his Super Bowl headline halftime show last Sunday – Drake was widely seen as the loser of the rap battle.He has addressed the fallout and backlash on ‘$ome $exy $ongs 4 U’ – a collection of sultry R&B-infused songs with his longtime collaborator and signee to his label OVO, PartyNextDoor.On ‘Gimme A Hug’ – one of the standout tracks from ‘$ome $exy $ongs 4 U’ – Drake clapped back at all the negativity surrounding him during his Lamar feud, calling out all the other artists (The Weeknd, Future, Metro Boomin, Rick Ross and more) who all took blows at him.In his opening verse, he thanked his fans for their support as well as hyped up his influence on rap, rhyming: “‘Drizzy, you amazing, you the inspiration / You set the bar for the next generation / You Neo in The Matrix, these n****s just Nemo in the ocean / Small fish, making kids feel emotion / Using you for promotion,’ truer words have never been spoken.”Drake continued, mocking the idea that his rivals like Lamar and Future believe they could replace him in rap – arguing they’d do more damage than good leading the genre: “Funny how it’s only bitch n****s that are waiting on The Boy’s obituary / ‘Cause if I die, it’s these n****s that become the sole beneficiary / And what the fuck are they gon’ do with it? / Have the girls up at 29 on stage twerking with a dictionary?”Then the song switches to a more upbeat,.