Kendrick Lamar drops another brutal Drake diss track ‘6:16′ in LA’

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Kendrick Lamar has released ‘6:16 in LA’, another brutal diss track directed towards Drake.The ‘Humble’ rapper wasted no time in creating a follow-up to his recent release ‘Euphoria‘ – a six-minute-long diss track that sees Lamar call the ‘Hotline Bling’ a “scam artist”, “master manipulator” and question his abilities as a father.Lamar took to his Instagram today (May 3) – three days after the release of ‘Euphoria’ – to share a new track – ‘6:16 in LA’.

The title of the track itself is a reference to Drake’s timestamp series, a grouping of songs in the rapper’s discography in which their title’s include a time and a location.A post shared by Kendrick Lamar (@kendricklamar)Featuring a slurry of synths at the beginning before jumping into a soulful boombap style beat, Lamar opens with “Who could reach this?

Only God could teleport this type of freedom / My God, my confession is yours, but / Who am I if I don’t go to war? / There’s opportunity when livin’ with laws / I discover myself when I fall short / Raise my hands to a fallen sky, I fantasise / Me jumpin’ planets and mortal lies, I correspond.”He goes on to rap: “Have you ever thought that OVO was working for me? / Fake bully, I hate bullies, you must be a terrible person / Everyone inside your team is whispering that you deserve it / Can’t Toosie Slide up outta this one, it’s just gon’ resurface,” expressing his hatred for bullies and claiming the ‘Know Yourself’ rapper as a “terrible person”.K.Dot then takes a moment to hit at Drake’s personal circle, claiming that some of them a want the ‘Headlines’ rapper “as a casualty”: “And one of them is actually next to you / And two of them is practically tired of your lifestyle, just don’t got the audacity to tell you / But.