It was the delivery.
Already considered one of the city’s best pizza joints, the Brooklyn pizzeria exploded in popularity after rapper Kendrick Lamar named it in a new track dissing Drake. Many new fans have joined the pizza shop’s fan base.
Lucari restaurant on Henry Street in Carroll Gardens already has many celebrity fans, including Beyoncé, Jay-Z, and even Drake himself. According to Eater New York.
But Lamar’s mention of it in his song “6:16 in LA” propelled the 18-year-old veteran to new heights.
“Even though I have a visa and a tattoo on my passport, I showed up at my Ibiza/Lucari residence in Brooklyn just to make a pizza reservation,” Lamar raps in the song. is a response to an earlier Drake diss track attacking Lamar’s $8.6 million Brooklyn Heights penthouse.
That quick mention was enough to light up Lucali’s Yelp page with a slew of brand new five-star reviews, according to Eater.
“Kendrick Lamar recommended we try the pizza here,” one reviewer wrote on the site.
“It’s good enough for Kendrick, it’s good enough for me,” wrote another, according to the paper.
The restaurant added that this is no change at all for the popular restaurant, where fans form long lines every day to vie for a table.
Lucari owner Mark Iacono told Eater that it was “business as usual” and that he didn’t know about the rap feud until his seat came under fire, and several customers mentioned the controversy. .
“It’s been 17 years since then,” he told the magazine. “The lines are still long.”
The two rappers reignited their feud last month. The feud has been simmering ever since Lamar said in 2013 that he wanted to “murder” Drake on a Big Sean song.
But the intensity soon reached new heights as the angry pair sent insults back, including accusations of pedophilia, domestic violence and being bad fathers.
