Kendrick Lamar Scores His Fourth No. 1 Hit With Diss Track “Not Like Us”

Kendrick Lamar at the Festival D'ete De Quebec in 2017
Kendrick Lamar at the Festival D'ete De Quebec in 2017. Photo by RMV/REX/Shutterstock (8923784aw)

Kendrick Lamar’s heated feud with Drake took the world by storm in recent weeks, as they’ve given us one diss track after another. “Not Like Us” is shaping up to be the biggest hit to come out of this feud, and it just hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

The two rappers go back a long way, but their recent feud can be traced to Future and Metro Boomin’s single “Like That”, which featured Lamar. He made several jabs at Drake in this song, and the Canadian rapper didn’t stay silent for too long, dropping his own diss tracks “Push Ups” and “Taylor Made Freestyle”.

They’ve been going back and forth for quite some time, giving us several more diss tracks along the way, but none of them made a bigger splash than “Not Like Us”. It’s Lamar’s fourth single to top the Billboard Hot 100 chart, after earning 70.9 million official streams, 5 million radio airplay audience impressions, and 15,000 copies sold in its debut week.

In addition to “Not Like Us”, this feud produced several more top-ten hits this week. Lamar’s “Euphoria” rose to No. 3 in its second week, while Drake’s “Family Matters” hit No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.