THE REAL WINNER OF THE KENDRICK-DRAKE FEUD IS LUCALI PIZZA

There’s at least one winner in the ongoing feud between Kendrick Lamar and Drake: It’s the Carroll Gardens pizzeria Lucali, which has seen a wave of new fans since appearing in a diss track from Lamar.

“My visa, passport tatted, I show up in Ibiza. Lucali’s dwellings in Brooklyn just to book me some pizza,” Lamar raps in “6:16 in LA,” released on May 3. The song is a response to an earlier diss track from Drake called “Taylor Made Freestyle,” which calls out Lamar’s $8.6 million penthouse in Brooklyn Heights.

Lucali, which has been open since 2006, has long been regarded as one of the city’s best and most popular pizzerias, with celebrity fans like Beyonce, Jay Z, and even Drake. Each day, fans line up outside of the no-reservation restaurant in hopes of securing a seat.

Since the release of “6:16 in LA,” users have flooded the pizzeria with dozens of five-star Google reviews. “Kendrick Lamar recommended I try out the pizza here,” one reviewer wrote. “Good enough for Kendrick, good enough for me,” another user posted.

As the rappers’ disses become more personal, it’s only natural their favorite restaurants would get roped in. In Toronto, where Drake is from, a decades-old Chinatown restaurant saw a boom in business after it appeared in a song from Lamar. A few days later, Drake responded with a diss track called Family Matters with a music video shot inside the restaurant.

In the case of Lucali, it’s unclear how many of the reviewers have been to the pizzeria. Several users who left five-star ratings had never reviewed a restaurant in New York, while others wrote they planned to visit Lucali when they were in town. Websites like Yelp and Google have policies to monitor fake reviews, but it can take days to remove them.

By that time, a new restaurant might end up in the crossfire.

2024-05-06T20:11:33Z dg43tfdfdgfd