Dr. Dre was left disgusted when Drake dissed Kendrick Lamar’s wife and children.
The rap mogul doesn’t like to get involved in rap beefs, but he was far from impressed when the ‘Rich Flex’ rapper took aim at his arch-nemesis’ family on a number of tracks, including claiming he was abusing his fiancée, Whitney Alford, and that his pgLang label partner Dave Free illegitimately fathered one of his two children on ‘Push Ups’, ‘Family Matters’ and ‘The Heart Part 6’.
Dre is a mentor to Kendrick and was a special guest at his ‘Pop Out’ concert in Los Angeles last summer, where he performed many of his tracks that take aim at Drake, and he is a huge fan of his Grammy nominated hit ‘Not Like Us’.
Speaking on Audible podcast ‘The Unusual Suspects With Kenya Barris and Malcolm Gladwell’, Dre said: “I love that record. I’ma say this on camera. I don’t want to get negative. My whole s*** is about being positive and moving forward and all that s***, but the fact I heard Drake say something negative about Kendrick’s wife and his kids, that made me say, ‘Ah, adios!’”
Dre introduced his performance of ‘Not Like Us’ with: “Pst, I see dead people.”
Drake has since launched legal action over the accusations Kendrick’s spits about on ‘Not Like Us’, including the shocking line: “Certified Lover Boy? Certified pedophile” and “Tryna strike a chord and it’s probably A minor”.
Drake swiftly fired back on his retaliation track ‘The Heart Part 6’, denying Kendrick’s accusations he is a paedophile.
He rapped: “Speakin’ of anything with a child, let’s get to that now / This Epstein angle was the s***/I expected TikTok videos you collected and dissected / Instead of being on some diss-direct s*** / You rather f****** grab your pen and misdirect s***.”
Drake also accused Universal Music Group of “artificially inflated” streams for the record-breaking tune.
Kendrick’s pgLang licenses his releases to UMG’s Interscope, while Drake’s OVO label has a deal with UMG’s Republic for marketing and distribution.
On January 15, he filed a defamation lawsuit against UMG, with the label hitting back by branding the filing “illogical”.
A spokesperson told PEOPLE: “Not only are these claims untrue, but the notion that we would seek to harm the reputation of any artist—let alone Drake—is illogical.
“We have invested massively in his music and our employees around the world have worked tirelessly for many years to help him achieve historic commercial and personal financial success.”