Chet Hanks and Tom Hanks participate in the opening night of Apple TELEVISION+’s “Masters Of The Air” at Regency Village Theatre onJan 10, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. Amy Sussman/Getty Images
Drake and Kendrick Lamar‘s rap feud is a family matter to the Hanks clan. Feeling out of the loop on modern hip-hop’ s largest beef to day, Tom Hanks lately connected to his 33-year-old kid Chet Hanks for a description of the entire ordeal, creating a funny discussion which the last shared on Instagram Monday (May 20).
Posting screenshots of the message chain on his Story, Chet disclosed that his dad– just conserved in his phone as “Pops”– started by messaging him, “Big Main, can you explain the Drake/Kendrick Lamar feud to me?”
Chet obligingly introduced right into a prolonged run-through of the fight, keeping in mind exactly how each of the rap artists has actually been going down a collection of diss tracks targeted at each various other throughout April and May, beginning with Drake’s “Push Ups.” Then came Drizzy’s since-deleted “Taylor Made Freestyle,” “Family Matters” and “The Heart Pt. 6,” along with K. Dot’s “Euphoria,” “6:16 in L.A.” and “Meet the Grahams.”
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Of Lamar’s Billboard Hot 100-topping last diss “Not Like Us,” the more youthful Hanks informed the Academy Award- victor that it was “pretty much the sonic equivalent of when you took me to your high school in Oakland and we walked in on the basketball game and everybody started going nuts.”
“Like if you heard it you would just automatically know how to Crip walk with a stank face while clutching an Oscar in each hand with Marshawn Lynch,” Chet included. “Then dap him up and tell him ‘Town Bidness’ which solidified the win not only for Kendrick but the entire West Coast.”
Suffice to claim, Tom– that likewise shares kid Truman with his partner, singer-actress Rita Wilson– was incredulous. “Holy cow!” he composed back. “These are fighting words. People taking sides?? Who’s winning??”
“Did you not just read what I said,” Chet responded with 3 cry-laughing emojis.
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