How the Drake-Kendrick Lamar feud is taking rap battles high tech

Get the Full StoryAfter a month of back-and-forth involving AI and other technology, the beef between the two rappers is still sizzling and represents an evolutionary leap for how diss tracks are made and distributed.

The long-simmering battle between hip-hop heavyweights Drake and Kendrick Lamar escalated dramatically over the weekend. With a rapid-fire volley of deeply personal diss tracks, the feud has now left the realm of playful, mutually beneficial name-calling, and crashed, jarringly, somewhere between a blood vendetta and an actual combat zone. The only thing heavier than the grave accusations the two have begun hurling in each other s direction are the teeth-rattling bass lines undergirding them, courtesy of top producers like DJ Mustard and, um, frequent Taylor Swift collaborator Jack Antonoff.

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