| Family Matters | |
| Cover: | Drake - Family Matters.jpg |
| Alt: | A photograph of the Los Angeles skyline, overlaid with gold text reading "FAMILY MATTERS". |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Drake |
| Recorded: | 2024 |
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| Length: | 7:36 |
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| Chronology: | Drake |
| Prev Title: | Push Ups |
| Prev Year: | 2024 |
| Next Title: | U My Everything |
| Next Year: | 2024 |
"Family Matters" is a diss track by Canadian rapper Drake, released on May 3, 2024, amid his feud with Kendrick Lamar alongside an accompanying music video. The song debuted at number seven on the US Billboard Hot 100 on the chart published May 13, 2024. With the entrance, Drake adds his record-padding 78th Hot 100 top 10, and “Family Matters” is also his record-extending 331st entry on the chart overall.
The track is divided into three separate sections, with lyrics targeting several rappers including Lamar, Future, Rick Ross, A$AP Rocky, Kanye West, producers Metro Boomin and Pharrell Williams, and singer the Weeknd.[1] The track is a response to several songs (Lamar's "Euphoria", and ""; Ross' "Champagne Moments"; Future, and Metro Boomin and the Weeknd's "All to Myself"; Metro Boomin and A$AP Rocky's "Show of Hands").
Music critics noted that the content of the song marked an intensification of the feud between Drake and Lamar, with lyrics alleging Lamar engaged in domestic abuse against his wife, cheated on his wife with white women, and that one of Lamar's children is actually fathered by Dave Free.[2] "Family Matters" received positive reviews from critics, with praise for its lyricism, production, and easter eggs in the video. Lamar responded to "Family Matters" within an hour, releasing "Meet the Grahams".[3]
See main article: Drake–Kendrick Lamar feud.
Drake posted a parody of "Buried Alive Interlude", a song recorded by Lamar for Drake's 2011 album Take Care, on Instagram on May 3, 2024. In the snippet, Drake mocks Lamar's performance on the original song and disses him, claiming Lamar is jealous of his success.[4] "Family Matters" was released on later that day with an accompanying music video.
The music video is laden with disses to Lamar: Drake was viewed as paying homage to 50 Cent by featuring a vintage G-Unit spinner chain and wears FUBU, with critics noting it as serving as a direct response to Lamar's mention of the brand in "Euphoria". The video also features a third generation Plymouth Voyager, similar to the third generation Chrysler Town & Country featured on the cover of the deluxe edition of Good Kid, M.A.A.D City (2012), being crushed in a junkyard.
References to Lamar's relationship to Alford, with cakes inscribed with "Happy Divorce" and "Happy Co-parenting", also feature–however wrongly referred and misconstrued as they have never being married, thus making the idea of a divorce impossible, alongside a ringed chain: according to Jordan Rose at Complex, fans speculated the ringed chain was similar to the one Lamar gave Alford in 2015, while the presence of a Michael Jackson action figure representing Jackson's song "Black or White" referencing Drake's claims that Lamar cheated on Alford with white women. Drake also flaunts jewelry and memorabilia previously owned or designed by Pharrell Williams, and a ring owned by Tupac Shakur, the video also shows Drake visiting New Ho King.
See main article: Meet the Grahams. Lamar released "Meet the Grahams" as a response 53 minutes after the release of "Family Matters".[5]
| Peak position | |
| Australia Hip Hop/R&B (ARIA)[6] | 6 |
|---|---|
| Greece International (IFPI)[7] | 11 |
| Iceland (Plötutíðindi)[8] | 28 |
| Lithuania (AGATA)[9] | 49 |
| MENA (IFPI)[10] | 8 |
| Saudi Arabia (IFPI)[11] | 17 |
| Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[12] | 59 |
| UAE (IFPI)[13] | 8 |