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• "Like That" sees Future and Metro Boomin enlist rap legend Kendrick Lamar for a hard-hitting track. Future kicks it off, talking that sex and drug game, keeping it ice-cold like always. Then Lamar steps in, claiming his throne as the top dog.
  
  Lamar is reacting to Drake throwing shade during his For All the Dogs track "First Person Shooter," featuring J Cole. Drizzy called himself and Cole the only GOATs, leaving Lamar out in the cold. Kendrick isn't having it. He calls out Drake and Cole, saying they aren't on his level. K-Dot even drops the "First Person Shooter" title into his rhymes to make his point crystal clear.
• At the end of his verse, Lamar makes fun of the For All The Dogs album name, calling Drake and Cole straight up mutts.
  
  Ni--a, bum, 'fore all your dogs gettin' buried
  That's a K with all these nines, he gon' see Pet Sematary
  
  These aren't no rappers, these are Pet Sematary pups, destined to get buried! Lamar's rhymes are like an AK (way more firepower than their lil' 9mm pew-pews). He even combines those guns in the line to form "canine," basically another way to say "dog" – just to remind them who's top dog in this rap game.
• This isn't the first time Lamar has flexed his dominance. Remember his legendary verse on Big Sean's "Control" where he challenged rap's big guns to raise their game and top him? Yeah, that's the kind of energy he's bringing here, still claiming the throne after all these years.
• This song marks the fourth collaboration between Future and Kendrick Lamar. They previously linked up on Mike WiLL Made-It's June 2014 "Buy the World," Future's May 2017 "Mask Off (Remix)," and Jay Rock's January 2018 single "King's Dead."
• The track pays homage to two classic tracks, flipping the intro, sung by Michel'le, to Eazy-E's 1988 debut single "Eazy-Duz-It" and Rodney O & Joe Cooley's 1987 cut "Everlasting Bass." "Eazy-Duz-It" has been sampled on numerous occasions, including on The Game and Kanye West's January 2022 single "Eazy," where Michel'le's vocals are used on the track's chorus and outro.
• "Like That" is the sixth track from Future and Metro Boomin's collaborative studio album, We Don't Trust You. The two artists first collaborated on Future's 2013 single "Karate Chop," and have worked together consistently since then, including on Future's major single "Mask Off."
• "Like That" debuted at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. It was Future and Lamar's third visit to the summit, and Metro's first as a lead artist. (He topped the chart as a co-producer and co-writer on Migos' "Bad and Boujee" and The Weeknd's "Heartless").
• In a move that surprised absolutely no one, Kanye West, also known as Ye, stirred the pot when he dropped a remix for "Like That" on April 21, 2024. Ye's rap takes aim at Drake's lucrative record deal, suggesting the rapper feels Drake wasn't getting his fair share. It's a not-so-subtle jab at the industry and the big business of music.
  
  But Ye doesn't stop there. He throws some shade at Drake's lyrics too, rapping that Drake and J. Cole are so irrelevant, he can't even remember a single line from them. Ouch! Looks like this feud between Ye and Drake is far from over.
  
  Speaking on affiliate Justin LaBoy's The Download podcast, Ye explained how the remix came about:
  
  "[Future] called me and I went to the studio and laid that. We went through the creative process of adding the chords and called the Hooligans out in London to get on the joint. Everybody was very, very energized about the elimination of Drake."
• Barry White's estate filed a copyright infringement lawsuit a few months after "Like That" was released. The lawsuit targets Rodney-O & Joe Cooley's 1986 song "Everlasting Bass," which is interpolated in "Like That." The lawsuit alleges that "Everlasting Bass" infringed on Barry White's 1973 song "I'm Gonna Love You Just A Little More Baby" by using a similar bassline. Since "Like That" sampled "Everlasting Bass," the lawsuit indirectly targets Future and Metro Boomin as well.