Joe Biden campaign disses Donald Trump with Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Euphoria’ lyrics

8 May, 2024

Joe Biden and Kendrick Lamar. Credit: Andrew Harnik and Samir Hussein via GETTY

Joe Biden‘s campaign team has used Kendrick Lamar‘s ‘Euphoria‘ lyrics to diss former US president Donald Trump.

The current US President’s campaign team hit out at Trump via social media on Monday (May 6) by using the viral track in a video clip that features various photos of the former president as the song plays in the background.

“It’s always been about love and hate, now let me say I’m the biggest hater. I hate the way that you walk over women’s rights, the way that you talk about immigrants. I hate the way that you dress, I hate the way that you sneak diss on truth social,” the text over the video reads.

Lamar’s six-minute-long diss track sees the Pulitzer Prize winning rapper going after Drake, calling him a “master manipulator” and also questions his abilities as a father.

In the original version of the song, the ‘Humble’ rapper raps: “It’s always been about love and hate, now let me say I’m the biggest hater / I hate the way that you walk, the way that you talk, I hate the way that you dress / I hate the way that you sneak diss, if I catch flight, it’s gon’ be direct / We hate the bitches you fuck ’cause they confuse themself with real women.”

Drake and Lamar have been in a rap feud for over a decade. Recently, Lamar dropped his fourth diss track, ‘Not Like Us’, in the latest of the pair’s rapid-fire exchanges in their reignited feud.

It’s the latest exchange in the pair’s feud since Lamar dropped his verse on Future and Metro Boomin’s ‘Like That‘ back in March. In the verse, he responded to J. Cole, who claimed “Love when they argue the hardest MC / Is it K-Dot? Is it Aubrey? Or me? / We the big three like we started a league” on his guest spot on Drake’s track ‘First Person Shooter’.

Lamar told Cole and Drake on his ‘Like That’ verse: “Motherfuck the big three, n****, it’s just big me”. Cole later responded with his own diss, ‘7 Minute Drill’, but he later apologised for it and pulled it from streaming.

However, Drake fired back with two tracks ‘Push Ups’ and ‘Taylor Made Freestyle‘. Drake landed in hot water after he used AI to emulate Tupac Shakur‘s vocals, leading to the late rapper’s estate threatening legal action. He subsequently removed the track from streaming.

Lamar would then respond with ‘Euphoria‘ on May 1, following it up quickly the following day with ‘6:16 in LA’.

The pair then dropped new diss tracks within an hour of each other, with Drake releasing ‘Family Matters’ just before Lamar clapped back with ‘Meet The Grahams’.

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