section_path: History/2023–24: Direct confrontation/"Push Ups" and "Taylor Made Freestyle"
section_name: "Push Ups" and "Taylor Made Freestyle"
paragraph_text: "Push Ups" and "Taylor Made Freestyle"
  
  On April 13, 2024, early versions of Drake's " Push Ups " were leaked online. The song serves as a response to Lamar's verse on "Like That"; Drake claims multiple artists are better than Lamar, including 21 Savage, Travis Scott, and SZA. On "Push Ups", Drake also mocks Lamar's short stature of 5 feet 5 inches (1.65 meters), and criticizes Lamar for collaborating with Taylor Swift and other pop artists. In addition, Drake disses numerous other artists on "Push Ups", including Metro Boomin, Future, the Weeknd, ASAP Rocky, and Rick Ross. Shortly afterward, Ross would release a diss track against Drake entitled " Champagne Moments ".
  
  On April 19, 2024, Drake officially released "Push Ups"; at the same time, he used social media to release " Taylor Made Freestyle ", another diss targeted at Lamar. The song featured AI-generated vocals imitating two of Lamar's fellow West Coast rappers, Snoop Dogg and the late Tupac Shakur. Shakur and Lamar had been linked ever since Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly featured extensive references to Shakur's legacy, as well as a posthumous "interview" with Shakur (pulled from a real-life interview with the rapper before his death). Using the voices of both Shakur and Snoop Dogg, as well as his own voice, Drake taunts Lamar for purported cowardice over not yet having responded to "Push Ups", and claims that Lamar held back his response to the track to avoid being drowned out by the chart success of Taylor Swift's new album, The Tortured Poets Department. On this track, Drake makes the feud's first reference to the pedophilia accusations against him, using Shakur's AI-generated voice to implore Lamar: "Talk about him liking young girls, that's a gift from me/Heard it on the Budden Podcast, it's gotta be true."
  
  The song received direct criticism from Shakur's estate, which stated disapproval of the AI-generated verse and threatened to sue Drake to pull the song from social media, citing the violation of Shakur's personality rights and the decision to diss a friend of the estate: "The unauthorized, equally dismaying use of Tupac's voice against Kendrick Lamar... who has given nothing but respect to Tupac and his legacy publicly and privately, compounds the insult." "Taylor Made Freestyle" was subsequently taken down from social media by Drake on April 26, 2024 (it had only ever been posted on social media, and never shared on streaming services).
  
  On April 13, 2024, early versions of Drake's " Push Ups " were leaked online. The song serves as a response to Lamar's verse on "Like That"; Drake claims multiple artists are better than Lamar, including 21 Savage, Travis Scott, and SZA. On "Push Ups", Drake also mocks Lamar's short stature of 5 feet 5 inches (1.65 meters), and criticizes Lamar for collaborating with Taylor Swift and other pop artists. In addition, Drake disses numerous other artists on "Push Ups", including Metro Boomin, Future, the Weeknd, ASAP Rocky, and Rick Ross. Shortly afterward, Ross would release a diss track against Drake entitled " Champagne Moments ".
  
  On April 19, 2024, Drake officially released "Push Ups"; at the same time, he used social media to release " Taylor Made Freestyle ", another diss targeted at Lamar. The song featured AI-generated vocals imitating two of Lamar's fellow West Coast rappers, Snoop Dogg and the late Tupac Shakur. Shakur and Lamar had been linked ever since Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly featured extensive references to Shakur's legacy, as well as a posthumous "interview" with Shakur (pulled from a real-life interview with the rapper before his death). Using the voices of both Shakur and Snoop Dogg, as well as his own voice, Drake taunts Lamar for purported cowardice over not yet having responded to "Push Ups", and claims that Lamar held back his response to the track to avoid being drowned out by the chart success of Taylor Swift's new album, The Tortured Poets Department. On this track, Drake makes the feud's first reference to the pedophilia accusations against him, using Shakur's AI-generated voice to implore Lamar: "Talk about him liking young girls, that's a gift from me/Heard it on the Budden Podcast, it's gotta be true."
  
  The song received direct criticism from Shakur's estate, which stated disapproval of the AI-generated verse and threatened to sue Drake to pull the song from social media, citing the violation of Shakur's personality rights and the decision to diss a friend of the estate: "The unauthorized, equally dismaying use of Tupac's voice against Kendrick Lamar... who has given nothing but respect to Tupac and his legacy publicly and privately, compounds the insult." "Taylor Made Freestyle" was subsequently taken down from social media by Drake on April 26, 2024 (it had only ever been posted on social media, and never shared on streaming services).