A leaked song by drakeThe upcoming album apparently has several Hollywood stars in its sights.
Clips of Drake’s new song “1 am in Albany” have surfaced social media on Wednesday, May 13, prompting fans to try to piece together the lyrics.
“Muggsy Bogues Once dunked, even I’m a little amazed that someone gave the kid a raise,” one lyric reads, referring to the retired point guard, which fans believed was a dig Kendrick Lamar. (Bogues was the shortest player in NBA history at 5’7″, while Lamar is tall at 5’7″)
While Drake, 39, and Lamar, 38, were once friends as peers, they are now been involved in a years-long back-and-forth rap battle.
The rap feud between Kendrick Lamar and Drake is so heated it could burn the hip-hop world down. Lamar, 36, and Drake, 37, have been waging a lyrical war in recent days with increasingly personal dissident tracks being released. Drake’s “Family Matters” song accused Lamar of being a “fake” activist and claimed that Lamar had been physically harmed (…)
“I never want to dwell on answers,” Drake said Mood in 2013 when asked if he had written “The Language” about the drama. “I’m just talking my shit out. I never felt the need to respond to (Lamar’s ‘control’). The feeling he expressed is exactly what he should have.”
He continued: “Of course you want to be the best. The problem came from me releasing an album while that verse was still bubbling, so my album rollout revolved around that thing. What can I say? ‘No, we’re going to be buddies?’ However, I never said he was a villain (or) that I didn’t like him. I think he’s a fucking genius himself, but I also held my own like I should.”
Lamar, for his part, released a song called “6:16 in LA” in 2024, which has parallels to Drake’s “Albany” track. (However, Drake has dropped several tracks with times in the title, including “5 am in Toronto” and “4 pm in Calabasas.”) The next year, Lamar headlined the 2025 Super Bowl halftime show and invited Drake’s ex Serena Williams to join his performance of “Not Like Us,” which also featured the feud.
Drake apparently featured the song in his 2025 track “What Did I Miss?” destroyed.
The feud between Kendrick Lamar and Drake has become one of the most famous rap disputes in history, but their relationship wasn’t always so fraught. Before Lamar made his major label debut with 2012’s Good Kid, MAAD City, the Compton native and Drake were on good terms. Lamar made a guest appearance on Drake’s in 2011 (…)
“I don’t give a fuck if you love me, I don’t give a fuck if you like me / Ask me, ‘How did it feel?’ I can’t say it didn’t surprise me,” he began, appearing to refer to colleagues who had taken sides. Later in the song, he rapped, “It’s the love of my brothers and the death of a traitor, let’s go / She might decide to say no to me now, but say yes to me later, let’s go.”
In another lyric for “1 am in Albany,” Drake appears to shout J Cole as a “married rapper” before leaving after that LeBron James for siding with Lamar in their now-viral argument.
“I shouldn’t even be shocked to see you in this arena because you’ve always made a career out of changing teams,” the lyrics go. “Please stop asking what’s wrong with 23 and me, I’m a real n**** and he’s not, it’s in my DNA.”
Drake’s album Iceman will be released on Friday, May 15th.
