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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Ellen E Jones

Public Enemies: Kendrick vs Drake review – inside the beef that sent the world’s two greatest rap stars to war

Epic beef … Drake (left) and Kendrick Lamar
Epic beef … Drake (left) and Kendrick Lamar. Composite: Getty

The sky isn’t as blue, the grass not so green, food now tastes like sawdust and life just hasn’t been as sweet, since rap superstars Kendrick Lamar and Drake ceased their epic beefing back in May. So it is with gratitude that we hip-hop heads receive this hour-long documentary rehash.

It doesn’t go deep into the music itself, a total of 10 tracks – five from Lamar, five from Drake – released between 22 March and 5 May of this year. But there are numerous TikTok explainer videos for that. Rather, Public Enemies works by paralleling the biographies of both artists, to cast light on the present state of hip-hop, the music industry and the culture at large.

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