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The two North American rap stars have been lashing out at each other in different songs and have been making nasty accusations for several weeks now. On social networks, the public chooses its side, dissects every point and even participates in the skirmish.
It’s obviously an ego thing. Who will get the crown? Most pundits seem to be leaning toward the one who already received the West Coast torch from Snoop Dogg and The Game on August 19, 2011. Kendrick Lamar violently attacks one of the other heavyweights of North American rap, Drake. For several weeks, verses about diss songs they follow one another, mostly suddenly, and accusations fly. Faced with this mesmerizing and disturbing spectacle, ordinary mortals hesitate between morbid fascination, fanatical support or contempt for two millionaires who behave like ill-behaved children.
THE conflict, THE diss songs they are nothing new. Some say they are part of hip-hop culture, the final stage of this oft-caricatured ego trip that is always mocked by the uninitiated without interest in the art it represents. Jay-Z vs. Nas,