Toxic takedowns: the beef between Drake and Kendrick Lamar
Thirty years after the historic US Million Man March gestured towards new masculinities, the hip-hop world and much of the 'real' world are once again dominated by violent posturing and menacing machismo. With Pulitzer Prize-winning Kendrick Lamar and Drake’s vicious battle seemingly feted by the global media, Bongani Madondo asks whether the ‘modern’ world has been conditioned to accept the permanence of war
16 February 2025 - 00:00
We’re all soldiers, unfortunately. Everybody’s at war. I’m at war with my own heart sometimes. There’s two niggas inside me. One who wants to live in peace, and the other won’t die unless he’s free. — Tupac Shakur ..
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