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Drake

May 2026

  • Drake performs at Wireless festival in London, July 2025.

    Drake: Iceman / Maid of Honour / Habibti review – ​triple-album comeback is a boring, bloated disaster

  • Lil Baby & Friends Birthday Celebration ConcertATLANTA, GA - DECEMBER 9: Rapper Drake performs onstage during "Lil Baby & Friends Birthday Celebration Concert" at State Farm Arena on December 9, 2022 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Prince Williams/Wireimage)

    Drake lost the beef and embraced the manosphere. Is it too late for him to win back his audience?

February 2026

  • Alexis Petridis

    double quotation markThe Grammys riled Donald Trump – but the big winners were chosen for their music, not politics

    Alexis Petridis
    The president called the ceremony ‘garbage’, but in reality it was a celebration of artists whose commercial success was matched by boundary-pushing boldness

October 2025

  • Drake - photo credit: Jahnay Tennai

    Drake’s defamation lawsuit against Universal Music Group dismissed

    Rapper had claimed UMG helped to damage his reputation by distributing Kendrick Lamar’s Not Like Us

September 2025

  • Drake enjoys a Pimm’s Cup while sitting on Centre Court at Wimbledon.

    Drake defies curse with $300,000 wager on Jannik Sinner to win US Open

    Drake has wagered $300,000 on Jannik Sinner to win the US Open, reviving talk of the ‘Drake Curse’ as the world No 1 eyes a second New York crown

August 2025

  • From left: Kendrick Lamar and Drake.

    Universal deny that head Lucian Grainge was personally involved in Kendrick Lamar attack on Drake

  • Drake performs at Wireless festival on 11 July in London.

    Drake lawyers allege Universal head Lucian Grainge ‘personally involved’ in Kendrick Lamar diss track

July 2025

  • Too Much by Lena Dunham

    ‘I love England so much’: From TV to pop, film to fashion, the UK is enjoying a cultural resurgence

  • Headspin … Drake performing on day one of Wireless festival.

    Wireless festival review – Drake’s disjointed three-night headline run smacks of desperation

April 2025

  • Drake and Kendrick Lamar.

    Drake expands lawsuit against Universal Music Group, alleging defamation at Super Bowl

    Lawsuit argues Kendrick Lamar’s half-time performance ‘further solidified’ public belief in allegations made in diss track Not Like Us, but UMG calls amendment ‘absurd’

March 2025

  • Combination photo of Rappers Kendrick Lamar and Drake

    ‘Drake lost a rap battle’: Universal files motion to dismiss rapper’s ‘misguided’ lawsuit

    Drake’s attorneys accuse Universal of being ‘a greedy company’ that is ‘finally being held responsible for profiting from dangerous misinformation’.

February 2025

  • Rapper Drake at an NBA game, and Kendrick Lamar on stage during the Super Bowl half-time show

    Weekend
    Can Drake come back from Kendrick Lamar’s diss?; Marina Hyde on Starmer aping Trump; ‘I was trapped for 65 hours under 4,000 tons of rubble’; and Philippa Perry on setting boundaries with your parents – podcast

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  • Drake at an NBA game, and Kendrick Lamar performing at the Super Bowl LIX halftime show.

    ‘Silence is key’: after Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl, how can Drake possibly come back?

January 2025

  • Alexis Petridis

    double quotation markDrake’s lawsuit against Kendrick Lamar also puts artistic freedom on trial

    Alexis Petridis
  • side-by-side images of men

    Drake files defamation lawsuit over Kendrick Lamar diss track

December 2024

  • Kendrick Lamar and Drake perform.

    The Long Wave
    The Long Wave: The Lamar v Drake beef has gone legal – what does it say about today’s hip-hop industry?

    In this week’s newsletter: Lawyers are now involved in the most explosive rap feud of the century. A look at the potential cultural and commercial impact, and how hip-hop became big business
    Newsletter

November 2024

  • Black Consciousness Day celebrations in Avenida Paulista, São Paulo.

    The Long Wave
    The Long Wave: How Brazil is celebrating its Black heritage

    Newsletter
  • Kendrick Lamar and Drake

    Drake claims UMG and Spotify ‘artificially inflated’ Kendrick Lamar’s diss track Not Like Us

October 2024

  • Epic beef … Drake (left) and Kendrick Lamar

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

  • Drake and Kendrick Lamar … Public Enemies: Kendrick vs Drake, Channel 4.

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: inside Drake and Kendrick Lamar’s very public beef

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