Shawn Michaels Invites Kendrick Lamar and Drake to settle beef in WWE

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As their war of words plays out on YouTube and social media, WWE Hall of Famer Shawn Michaels is offering Kendrick Lamar and Drake the chance to settle their differences in the ring.

Lamar makes a reference to Michaels in his diss track Not Like Us, rapping, “Put the whole label on me, I’ma get ’em dropped, Sweet Chin Music and I won’t pass the aux.”

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Michaels caught the name drop and invited the pair to settle things in the squared circle.

“A little Sweet Chin Music goes a long way,” he wrote, referencing his his signature finishing move in a message on X. “@kendricklamar, you and @Drake are formally invited to #WWENXT to settle this thing. I’m even offering my services to mediate.”

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Michaels’ invitation went viral, garnering over 129.000 likes from his 3.9 million followers.

“THIS is the finale we need,” one person wrote with another predicting, “Kendrick will still beat Drake in the ring.”

Meanwhile, another wrestling fan predicted how such a match would conclude. “At the end, Shawn Michaels will deliver Sweet Chin Music to both Kendrick and Drake, then start dancing to his Sexy Boy theme song,” they wrote.

TMZ speculated that Michaels offered up the NXT squared circle because, in addition to his legacy as one of the greatest wrestlers of all time, he’s also currently serving as the Senior VP of Talent Development Creative, where he’s essentially in charge of all things NXT.

The invite comes as Drizzy and K-Dot have been trading insults in a series of rap tracks directed at each other after Lamar responded to a line in Drake and J. Cole’s 2023 song First Person Shooter, in which Cole referred to the three of them as the industry’s three greatest hip-hop artists. 

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Lamar dismissed that declaration on Future and Metro Boomin’s Like That, spitting back, “It’s just big me.” He also hit out at Drake on back-to-back diss tracks Euphoria and 6:16 in LA in which he called the lyricist “a terrible person.”

Things came to a head last weekend when Lamar took aim at Drake’s family and accused the Toronto-born superstar of being a pedophile on a pair of stinging songs, Meet the Grahams and Not Like Us.

In response, Drake released his own rebuke, The Heart Part 6, in which steadfastly denied allegations that he has a penchant for underage girls. “If I was f—ing young girls, I promise I’da been done arrested,” he raps.

If the two enter the ring — which is unlikely — they wouldn’t be the first music superstars to join the WWE. Last year, Bad Bunny took part in a San Juan Street Fight with Damian Priest at WWE Backlash. 

“I got hurt. My back. … My whole body, bro. I felt that I was going to die after that match. I really thought that I was going to die after the match, but it’s part of it,” the reggaeton artist told Zane Lowe (via WrestlingInc’s Nick Miller).

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