Dot’s Drake diss track ‘Not Like Us’ has broken streaming records
Kendrick Lamar’s scathing diss song “Not Like Us” seems to be rewriting history with another successful record. After becoming the most-charted, the Top Rap Song of 2024, number one, and the bestselling and Apple Music’s most-streamed song of the year, the song has now garnered over one billion streams on Spotify.
‘Not Like Us,’ which dropped in May 2024, has raked in 1,002,438,426 streams so far; the song is the first diss track ever to achieve that. The song has captured listeners’ attention worldwide with engaging lyrics and energetic rap, putting the song among the best modern Hip-hop songs.
But to measure “Not Like Us” swift rise to the top as simply a song chart success – that only adds to Kendrick Lamar’s legacy as one of the genre’s all-time greats – is to ignore just how complicated this song is and how it has swiftly become one of culture’s most polarizing, debated, and notorious hits since it first landed. For better or worse, it appears we still have several more weeks of Kendrick Lamar to come.