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Kendrick Lamar escalates war of words with Drake

At the BET’s Hip-Hop Awards, which aired last night but were taped on September 28, Kendrick Lamar pushed his battle with Drake to be rap’s new number two a step further.

During a group freestyle with the rest of Los Angeles’ Top Dawg Entertainment crew, the Compton-born rapper, who’s become one of rap’s most talked about stars over the last two years, called out the former “Degrassi” star.

“Yeah, and nothing’s been the same since they dropped ‘Control’/ And tucked a sensitive rapper back in his pajama clothes,” Lamar raps near the four-and-a-half minute mark of the segment. “Ha-ha jokes on you, high-five, I’m bulletproof/ Your s- -t’ll never penetrate/ Pin the tail on the donkey/ Boy you been a fake.”

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The call-out comes a couple months after Lamar’s already-legendary verse on Big Sean’s “Control.” During the monstrous seven-and-a-minute track, Lamar references Drake and a slew of hip-hop’s other young stars, furiously rapping, “I got love for you all but I’m trying to murder you n - - - as/Trying to make sure your core fans never heard of you n - - - as.”

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Even during a summer that saw the release of new albums from hall-of-famers Kanye West and Jay-Z, it was the season’s singular rap moment.

Lamar’s participation with the show wasn’t done with the much buzzed-about freestyle, as he also took the stage to perform with fellow TDE rappers Schoolboy Q and Jay Rock. After Q performed “Collard Greens” off his upcoming album, “Oxymoron,” which segued into Lamar and Rock coming out for “Money Trees,” a stand out off last the rapper’s breakthrough album, “good kid, m.A.A.d city”

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Drake didn’t appear on the award show, and therefore had no chance to respond, nor reverse his already bad week.