Rogan then accused Drake of penning "defensive rap's", as the tone of the exchange took a turn. "You don't hear defensive rapping that often, rapping is usually pretty aggressive. As soon as you're asserting in a rap song that you shouldn't be a registered sex offender, you've lost the rap battle."
The Kendrick and Drake beef has permeated every part of popular culture, with college professors giving dissertations on the conflict, and major news organizations following the beef. Roots drummer Questlove recently posted his dislike for the direction that the "battle" has taken in a recent social media post.
"Nobody won the war," he wrote. "This wasn’t about skill. This was a wrestling match level mudslinging and takedown by any means necessary, women & children & actual fact) be damned. Same audience wanting blood will soon put up ‘rip’ posts like they weren’t part of the problem. Hip Hop truly is dead.”
