TDE’s Punch Confirms Kendrick Lamar Made Longer Version of “Euphoria” With More Drake Disses

Top Dawg Entertainment's Punch revealed that there was originally a longer version of Kendrick Lamar's "Euphoria" that went even harder on the disses against Drake.

In an interview with Curtis King TV, the TDE co-president spoke about the first time he heard "Euphoria," which was K Dot's response to Drizzy's "Push Ups." He was asked about the rumors that there was an 18-minute version of the song at one point, and he confirmed that it was originally intended to be longer than the 6-minute version that officially came out.

"I don't know the length, but it was definitely longer," he replied. "It was definitely longer than the version that the world got. There's a lot of stuff that didn't make it on there. ... There was just some things in there that I didn’t think would have been beneficial in the long run to put in there. So I gave him my input on that or whatever, so he took some of those things out."

Punch didn't divulge what K Dot removed from "Euphoria," but it's possible that he included them on some of his later diss records like the incendiary "Not Like Us." Kendrick Lamar and Drake's beef saw the two rappers trade a total of five tracks with explicit disses aimed at each other last year.

There were almost definitely more disses since then, including shots from K Dot on GNX and during his Super Bowl Halftime Show performance. Drake, for his part, appeared to reference the beef multiple times on his PartyNextDoor collaborative album Some Sexy Songs 4 U.