Where do Kendrick Lamar and Drake go from here?

LOS ANGELES — After a weekend that saw two of hip-hop's biggest stars trade increasingly ugly accusations of domestic violence and child sexual abuse, it's all but official: Kendrick Lamar has triumphed over Drake in what many have deemed the most significant rap beef of all time.

The verdict was handed down early Monday by the self-appointed internet scorekeepers whose investment in the battle — as witnessed across YouTube, TikTok and every other form of social media given to feverish take-making — did as much as that of the rappers themselves to fan its flames.

But if Lamar can be said to have won, where does his victory leave him at age 36, a decade and a half into a career about which he's sometimes seemed ambivalent? How does