Kendrick Lamar lands yet another win as he takes over the Billboard Hot 100
Lamar's "Not Like Us" debuted at No. 1 this week, while Drake's "Family Matters" landed at No. 7
Kendrick Lamar is starting to land disses he didn’t even write. The world seems to have taken a definitive side in the war between Kendrick and Drake, handing the former some major reinforcements in the form of sales and streams. Billboard announced today that Lamar’s “Not Like Us,” one of three Drake-bashing tracks the rapper released the weekend of May 3, had debuted as No. 1 on this week’s Hot 100 chart. For those playing along at home, that’s the one where Kendrick straight up accuses his opponent of being a “certified pedophile” and raps “tryna strike a chord and it’s probably A-minor” (over an actual A-minor chord, no less).
“Not Like Us,” Kendrick’s fourth career No. 1, isn’t his only entry on the chart. “Euphoria,” his initial, 6-minute long attack, jumped up eight positions, from 11 to 3. Additionally, his March track, “Like That” with Future and Metro Boomin—the one that started this entire leg of the artists’ feud when Kendrick wrote “Motherfuck the big three, n***, it’s just big me”—is back on the chart for the first time in a while at No. 6.
