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Kendrick Lamar · S8 E1
Like That
A Future and Metro Boomin feature. One verse. The shot heard around hip-hop
March 22, 2024. Future and Metro Boomin drop an album, and a single Kendrick Lamar verse that sets the entire rap world on fire.
Kendrick Lamar, Savior ft. Baby Keem & Sam Dew (live in Paris, Big Steppers Tour, 2022). This is the Kendrick who decided to go to war: confident, commanding, and performing like someone who knows exactly where he stands in hip-hop. Two years after this performance, he'd fire the first shot.
Savior ft. Baby Keem & Sam Dew, Kendrick Lamar (2022)
From Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers. Kendrick opens with 'I'm not your savior' and spends the track refusing the crown while proving he deserves it. Baby Keem matches his energy, and Sam Dew's vocals float above both of them. Listen for the contradiction at the song's core: a man saying he doesn't want to be king while rapping like one.
Sources
Kendrick Lamar. "Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers." pgLang / Aftermath / Interscope, 2022.
The Shot Heard Around Hip-Hop
Kendrick's verse on "Like That" names Drake and J. Cole directly. No subliminals, no hints. He says their names, says they're not on his level, and dares them to prove otherwise. In hip-hop, there's no taking that back.
Sources
Future & Metro Boomin. "WE DON'T TRUST YOU." Freebandz / Boominati / Epic, 2024.
“Motherf***ers not like us. That line became the biggest song of the summer before anyone knew it was a preview.”
— Kendrick Lamar, "Like That" verse, WE DON'T TRUST YOU, March 2024
TAP TO REVEAL: How did J. Cole respond to being named on "Like That"?
On which album does Kendrick's "Like That" verse appear?
Like That, Future & Metro Boomin ft. Kendrick Lamar (2024)
The verse that started it all. Over a menacing Metro Boomin beat, Kendrick names Drake and J. Cole and declares war on both. The delivery is calm and measured, which makes it scarier: he's not rapping angry, he's rapping like someone who planned this. No official music video, no promotional rollout, just a feature verse that detonated.
Like That
J. Cole backed down. Drake didn't. What comes next is six minutes of surgical bars with no hook, no chorus, and no mercy. Next: Euphoria.
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