Daylyt got quite a telling FaceTime from Kendrick Lamar amid K. Dot’s beef with Drake earlier this year.
Appearing on TDE affiliate Mackwop’s live stream on Tuesday (December 17), Daylyt reflected on the call that came in from Ab-Soul‘s phone prior to Kendrick unleashing his responses – and noted how it was basically a foreshadowing of the takedown to come.
“After Drake dropped and it’s in the air. This is before [Kendrick dropped], when he’s being Boogeyman at this point,” he said. “So Ab-Soul call me – it’s like 5:30 in the morning. It’s a FaceTime call. So I ignored the first one. I’m like, ‘N-gga I ain’t about to talk to Soulo. I’m laying down.’ He called again. I’m like oh, it must be important. I’m thinking it must be an emergency because Ab-Soul don’t really FaceTime me, especially not that early. I pick up – it was Dot, bro!
“N-gga was just looking at the camera. I swear to God, he was just looking at the camera and hung up. The smirk that was on that n-gga’s face was the most… The last time I seen that was when I was doing shenanigans! It was evil, dog. I said, ‘Oh he willing to go to no return with this shit.’ Like this ain’t regular rap beef. He about to go to no return!”
Kendrick Lamar didn’t just out-maneuver Drake in their high-profile feud, but out-earned him too.
On Thursday (December 12), Billboard revealed estimates of how much money the two rap titans’ respective diss songs have generated in the months since their release this past spring.
Using data from Luminate, the analytics company that powers the Billboard charts, the publication estimated that the battle between Kendrick and Drake has generated almost $15.4 million in streaming, digital sales and publishing revenue in the U.S.
Kendrick is the clear winner of the two, statistically speaking, with “Not Like Us,” “Like That,” “Meet the Grahams” and “Euphoria” accounting for just over $13.4 million of that figure (almost 87%).
“Not Like Us” is the most profitable of the four, generating roughly $7.6 million, followed by “Like That” — his chart-topping collaboration with Future and Metro Boomin that ignited the war — racking up $4.6 million.
The spooky “Meet the Grahams” has so far earned $795,100, while “Euphoria” has made $441,300. Data for Kendrick’s other diss track “6:16 in LA,” which was not released on streaming, is unavailable.
Meanwhile, Drake’s two commercially available diss songs, “Family Matters” and “Push Ups,” have generated just $981,300 and $969,400 — totaling a little over $1.9 million.
How much money Kendrick and Drake have personally pocketed is unclear as it depends on the terms of their label and publishing deals, which are not known.
