Kendrick Lamar‘s inescapable hit “Not Like Us” has brought the rapper to another milestone, this time reportedly breaking a record previously held by 2Pac.
A screenshot posted to Instagram by Our Generation Music on Sunday (August 11) shows K.Dot’s latest hit having passed 647 million, surpassing Pac’s legendary diss record, “Hit ‘Em Up” by close to six million.
While the post did not clarify which platform the data had been gathered from, the caption asserted that, in passing 2Pac’s 1996 hit, “Not Like Us” has officially become the most streamed diss record.
HipHopDX has not been able to independently confirm the record.
Ironically, “Hit ‘Em Up” — which found 2Pac taking aim at the Notorious B.I.G. and other East Coast artists — topped HipHopDX’s list of the 100 Greatest Diss Songs In Hip Hop History; a list inspired by Kendrick’s dressing down of Drake.
The latter came in at no. 3.
Earlier this month, Kendrick Lamar‘s monster year continued to go from strength to strength as “Not Like Us” officially became the best-selling song of 2024 in the U.S.
While its total sales are unclear, Chart Data reported on August 1 that the Drake diss song is now the most successful of the year.
Though not yet officially certified by the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America), “Not Like Us” reached one million equivalent units in less than two weeks after its release in May and surpassed two million sales the following month.
Through Spotify and YouTube alone, “Not Like Us” and its accompanying music video have racked up over 800 million plays.
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The Mustard-produced anthem has also topped the Billboard Hot 100 twice, initially in its first week and again two months later after its highly anticipated video was released.
Adding insult to injury for Drake, the song has also broken several records previously held by the 6 God.
Following its arrival at the height of K. Dot and Drizzy’s feud in early May, “Not Like Us” earned the biggest single-day streams of any rap song in U.S. Spotify history with 10.986 million, easily eclipsing the 6.593 million streams Drake and Lil Baby’s “Girls Like Girls” achieved in 2021.
It later became the fastest rap song to achieve 500 million streams on Spotify, dethroning “God’s Plan.”
