Joe Biden

Hey, Natalie. Thanks so much for having me.

Hey, Natalie. Thanks so much for having me.

So Kendrick Lamar is one of the biggest rappers in the world, both now and for the past decade. He's the first rapper to ever headline the Super Bowl solo. I think that's worth noting. But you're right, one big reason he's at the Super Bowl this year is because of the enormous popularity of one song that he put out last year called Not Like Us. Not Like Us was a number one hit.

So Kendrick Lamar is one of the biggest rappers in the world, both now and for the past decade. He's the first rapper to ever headline the Super Bowl solo. I think that's worth noting. But you're right, one big reason he's at the Super Bowl this year is because of the enormous popularity of one song that he put out last year called Not Like Us. Not Like Us was a number one hit.

It is quickly on its way to becoming Kendrick's most popular and maybe defining song. And that's pretty weird.

It is quickly on its way to becoming Kendrick's most popular and maybe defining song. And that's pretty weird.

So this is a diss track, which is fairly normal in rap music. Two rappers, they square off and rap about how they're better than one another and who's richer and more popular.

So this is a diss track, which is fairly normal in rap music. Two rappers, they square off and rap about how they're better than one another and who's richer and more popular.

But diss tracks don't typically become pop hits, and especially diss tracks as venomous as this one, in which Kendrick is calling Drake another rapper, a big fake, a total user of other people, and most specifically, a pedophile.

But diss tracks don't typically become pop hits, and especially diss tracks as venomous as this one, in which Kendrick is calling Drake another rapper, a big fake, a total user of other people, and most specifically, a pedophile.

And not only is he saying these horrible things about another artist by name, but that other artist is Drake, probably the most popular rapper, if not pop star, of the last decade. And all of this has led to probably the most unusual lawsuit in the history of music.

And not only is he saying these horrible things about another artist by name, but that other artist is Drake, probably the most popular rapper, if not pop star, of the last decade. And all of this has led to probably the most unusual lawsuit in the history of music.

Well, I think you have to start with these two artists, who they are, where they came from and what they've come to represent.

Well, I think you have to start with these two artists, who they are, where they came from and what they've come to represent.

Drake is one of the unlikeliest rap stars of all time. He's from Toronto. He's Jewish, biracial. He was a child actor in the show Degrassi.

Drake is one of the unlikeliest rap stars of all time. He's from Toronto. He's Jewish, biracial. He was a child actor in the show Degrassi.

He seamlessly blended rapping and singing in a way that very few artists before him had ever done before.

He seamlessly blended rapping and singing in a way that very few artists before him had ever done before.

He compares himself very often to Michael Jackson. He has more than 300 entries on the Billboard singles chart. Like no other artist besides Taylor Swift even has 200. He's basically the blueprint for a modern day star. And he has a really long history of beefs. Fairly regularly, he's squaring off with somebody in hip-hop who is challenging his primacy.

He compares himself very often to Michael Jackson. He has more than 300 entries on the Billboard singles chart. Like no other artist besides Taylor Swift even has 200. He's basically the blueprint for a modern day star. And he has a really long history of beefs. Fairly regularly, he's squaring off with somebody in hip-hop who is challenging his primacy.