If Kendrick Lamar and Drake are no longer interested in going back-and-forth over diss tracks, Shawn Michaels suggests the two can settle their differences once and for all in the wrestling ring. “A little Sweet Chin Music goes a long way,” Michaels, 58, wrote in response to a post from Kendrick featuring a YouTube link to his latest diss track “Not Like Us.” As vice president of talent development creative for WWE NXT, Michaels went on to invite Kendrick and Drake to the company’s developmental brand where they could face off in a match and “settle this thing.” “I’m even offering my services to mediate,” he added.
Michaels’ involvement in the ongoing beef stems from a line in “Not Like Us” where Kendrick references the WWE legend’s finishing move “Sweet Chin Music.” “Put the wrong label on me, I’ma get ’em dropped/Sweet Chin Music and I won’t pass the aux,” the Compton native rapped. The line also alludes to a storied conflict between Michaels and Bret Hart, who was born in Canada. Hart lost the title to the Heartbreak Kid at Survivor Series 1997 in controversial fashion. The ref called the match when it was believed that Bret tapped out, even though he did not. The moment is now popularly referred to as the “Montreal Screwjob.”
WWE Hall Of Famer Shawn Michaels has invited Kendrick Lamar and Drake to “settle” their feud on WWE: NXT.
Lamar and Drake have been engaged in an ongoing rap battle since March this year. On the diss track ‘Not Like Us’, the former mentioned Michaels’ famous finishing move, rapping: “Sweet Chin Music and I won’t pass the aux.” The lyric caught the attention of the wrestling superstar, with the Senior Vice President of Talent Development Creative at WWE saying that the two rappers can battle it out on the brand he oversees, NXT. “A little Sweet Chin Music goes a long way,” he tweeted. “@kendricklamar, you and @Drake are formally invited to #WWENXT to settle this thing. I’m even offering my services to mediate.”
This line could potentially refer to the Montreal Screwjob where The Heartbreak Kid and WWE allegedly conspired to dethrone Canadian Bret Hart as champion, as well as Lamar’s desire to kick Drake in the face. Back in March, Lamar kicked off his conflict with Drake by calling him out on ‘Like That’ from Metro Boomin and Future’s ‘We Don’t Trust You’. This caused the Canadian to clap back two weeks later (April 13) with his own diss track, ‘Push Ups’, which first leaked online.
Drake also released ‘Taylor Made Freestyle’ – his second diss track aimed at Lamar which had A.I-generated verses from Tupac and Snoop Dogg. The 37-year-old had to eventually remove the song from his social media and other streaming platforms after Tupac’s estate threatened to sue him for using the rapper’s likeness without permission. On April 30, Lamar dropped the brutal six-minute song ‘Euphoria’ in retaliation.
Three days later, Lamar put out another scathing track ‘6:16 In LA’. Drake followed up with his most disrespectful diss track yet ‘Family Matters’ – which saw him accuse the Compton rapper of domestic violence against his longtime partner Whitney Alford. Just 20 minutes after ‘Family Matters’ dropped, Lamar released his comeback ‘Meet The Grahams’, where he alleged Drake has a daughter he has never publicly claimed. He then quickly followed up with ‘Not Like Us’, doubling down on accusing the rapper of paedophilia and exploiting Black artists (specifically Atlanta musicians on this track) and culture for financial gain.
The Toronto native responded to the unflattering allegations on ‘The Heart, Part 6’ – the latest song in this ongoing feud between the two rappers. In the song, Drake denied the paedophilia claims and suggested Lamar’s accusations were based on false information fed to him by Drake’s team.
Elsewhere, WWE has revealed that Travis Scott and Playboi Carti‘s ‘FE!N’ will be the official theme song for Wrestlemania 41, which will be held in Las Vegas on April 19 and 20, 2025. In other news, Vince Staples has weighed in on the Drake and Kendrick Lamar feud, saying rappers are “better than that.” “I think we deserve better than that because we’ve been saying for decades that we want people to respect Black music and Black art and Black people,” he continued. “For that to happen, we gotta respect ourselves and they don’t make it easy for us, but we gotta try to work a little bit harder at that.”
Source: Complex, NME
