The Kendrick Lamar/Drake beef escalated. Heres what happened.

It was one of the wildest weekends in hip-hop history: two heavyweight rappers, five new diss tracks, one music video and millions of fans either squirming or holding popcorn as it all went down.

Since Friday, Drake and Kendrick Lamar have released songs aimed at each other at a rapid clip, igniting pro-sports levels of spectating and driving hip-hop media personalities into overtime.

A feud between the two rappers has simmered for years, but the heat turned up in March after Lamar took direct aim at Drake and J. Cole in a guest verse on “Like That,” a track on the Future and Metro Boomin album “We Don’t Trust You.”

At first it was a free-for-all: Cole released a response track before retracting it 48 hours later. A bevy of hip-hop figures entered the fray, including Rick Ross, A$AP Rocky and producer Metro Boomin, who offered a free beat to the person who recorded the best verse for “BBL Drizzy” — a track the producer released on SoundCloud to poke fun at Drake.

But Drake vs. Lamar remained the main event. In April, Drake responded with a pair of diss tracks, including one that used A.I. to re-create the voices of Tupac Shakur and Snoop Dogg and triggered a legal threat. (Drake pulled the song.) And Lamar fired back with a dense, six-minute epic, “Euphoria,” that called Drake a scam artist and an absent father.

Many users on social media have reveled in the feud, declaring that it’s restored urgency to hip-hop and elevated each rapper’s artistry. “Kendrick got Drake to rap like it matters again and Drake got Kendrick to drop consistently,” one user commented on Instagram. “we eating so good (right now).”

This weekend extended that excitement — but also marked a darker turn in the feud, with Lamar and Drake lodging serious accusations against each other. It was a showcase for two of the most acclaimed rappers of their generation, an unburdening of long-steeping resentments and a tangle of insinuation and innuendo. Information-rich (fans quickly worked to decode every bar) and likely misinformation-dense (with the rappers denying some of each other’s claims), it was a classic rap feud with a very modern flavor. Here, track by track, is what fans heard.

Kendrick Lamar drops “6:16 in LA”

Days after dropping “Euphoria,” Lamar released an Instagram-only single called “6:16 in LA” — a callback to Drake’s timestamp tracks (like “8am in Charlotte”). Internet sleuths applied Swiftie-grade levels of scrutiny to the release, suggesting alternate explanations: A reference to Tupac’s birthday on June 16, perhaps; the day the late O.J. Simpson’s trial started in 1995; Canadian Father’s Day (Drake is Canadian); the date of Lamar’s last tour stop in Drake’s hometown of Toronto; and the series premiere date of HBO’s “Euphoria,” which Drake executive produces.

“6:16 in LA” samples an Al Green ballad and is co-produced by Taylor Swift’s frequent collaborator Jack Antonoff — a tongue-in-cheek response to Drake’s “Taylor Made Freestyle,” in which he taunted Lamar for collaborating with pop artists like Swift.

In the song, Lamar warns that he’s war-ready, accuses Drake of hiding behind memes and Twitter bots and even stokes intrigue about Drake’s inner circle.

“Have you ever thought that OVO is workin’ for me? Fake bully, I hate bullies, you must be a terrible person. Everyone inside your team is whispering that you deserve it,” Lamar raps, suggesting that there’s a mole among Drake’s friends and affiliates of his brand October’s Very Own. “Everyone inside your team is whispering that you deserve it.”

Drake releases “Family Matters”

Hours later, Drake responded with “Family Matters,” a 7-minute track that directly insults Lamar, Metro Boomin and the Weeknd — though most of his ire is directed at the Compton rapper. The song claims that Lamar called Tupac’s estate to have Drake’s “Taylor Made Freestyle” removed from content platforms. It also accused Lamar of putting on activist airs.

“Always rapping like you ’bout to get the slaves freed,” Drake raps. “You just acting like a activist, it’s make believe. Don’t even go back to your hood and plant no money trees.”

But in some of the song’s most serious accusations, Drake made specific allegations about Lamar and his longtime partner, Whitney Alford, involving domestic violence and infidelity. Publicists for Lamar did not immediately respond to The Washington Post’s email requests for comment.

In the song’s accompanying music video, imagery shows a car crusher destroying a Dodge Caravan, which resembles the one featured in the cover art of Lamar’s acclaimed album “Good Kid, M.A.A.D City.”

Lamar immediately follows with “Meet the Grahams”

Fans and hip-hop media had less than an hour to digest “Family Matters” when Lamar circled back with “Meet the Grahams,” a song in which the rapper speaks directly to Drake, his parents and his son, Adonis.

The track, layered over an eerie piano beat, involved allegations regarding Drake’s rumored relationships and family.

In another verse, Lamar tells famous NBA stars to stay away from Drake and his team: “Ay, LeBron, keep the family away, hey, Curry, keep the family away / To anybody that embody the love for they kids, keep the family away / They lookin’ at you too if you standin’ by him, keep the family away.”

And again with “Not Like Us”

Lamar wasn’t done. Less than 24 hours passed before he was back again with “Not Like Us” — a catchy West Coast hip-hop song that accused Drake’s team of criminal behavior and went harder at insulting the Canadian rapper, going so far as to accuse him of pedophilia.

In another verse, Lamar continues: “Ain’t you tired? Tryna strike a chord and it’s probably A-Minor.”

Publicists for Drake did not immediately respond to The Post’s email requests for comment.

The song grabbed hold of the internet, with many fans declaring it an instant bop for a rapper who has been known for his conscious and cerebral rap rather than commercial and club hits like Drake’s.

Footage uploaded to social media over the weekend showed DJs playing “Not Like Us” in clubs. Other fans overlaid the track’s audio onto various hip-hop dance videos.

Drake fires back with “The Heart Part 6”

Just as Sunday came to a close, Drake had the final word (for now), releasing “The Heart Part 6” — a callback to Lamar’s own five-part “The Heart” series of songs. In the nearly six-minute rap, Drake denied the allegations that Lamar had thrown against him, while also claiming that he and his team had fooled Lamar’s camp into thinking Drake had another secret child.

“We plotted for a week and then we fed you the information/a daughter that’s 11 years old, I bet he takes it,” Drake raps. “We thought about giving a fake name or a destination. But you so thirsty, you not concerned with investigation.”

Drake also referenced abuse that Lamar opened up about in a past song. “Ahh, wait a second, that’s that one record where you say you got molested,” Drake raps. “ … I just made the whole connection. This about to get so depressin’. This is trauma from your own confessions.”

While their feud has long turned ugly, many users felt that Drake’s reference to molestation was a new low. They also say he misinterpreted Lamar’s song “Mother I Sober,” which references abuse his mother experienced as a child.

“Drake taking a song about Molestation and making it a joke is tone deaf,” one user wrote on X.

In a tweet, Drake further provoked Lamar: “And we know you’re dropping 6 mins after so instead of posting my address you have a lot to address.”

Lamar so far has not responded. But for now, many fans and music outlets have already declared Lamar as the victor. The crown goes to Compton, Rolling Stone proclaimed.

“Safe to say Kendrick Lamar already won,” one X user wrote. While another user on Instagram suggested Drake buried his own grave. “Admitting that you had to plot with your [people] to take down Kendrick is admitting you lost.”

This story will be updated.