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| Kendrick Lamar |
It
has been an eventful three months for the hip-hop community, thanks to rising
superstar rapper, Kendrick Lamar. Kendrick, who has received critical acclaim
for his debut studio album, seemed to have never disappointed his fans since
that point. In August, fellow rapper Big Sean, released a song titled “Control”.
Due to sample clearance issues, he was not allowed to have the song on his
album, but thought it would be good for the hip-hop, especially those who are
into lyrical content to drop the song anyway. So in early August, he did just
that.
Control Verse: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaMreUKk5Fk
In a matter of hours after he released the
song on his twitter, uproar was started, due in large part to Kendrick’s verse.
There were two parts in particular that caught the majority of the rap
universe. In one part of the verse, he mentions “I’m Makavelli’s offspring, I’m
the king of New York, king of the coast, one hand I juggle them both”. In this
part of the verse, he was implying that he is the hare to Tupac (Who referred
to himself as Makavelli). Also, since the hip-hop genre was originated in New
York and he, along with a multitude of avid hip-hop listeners think that he is
one of the best, if not the best rap artist right now, he is now the
self-proclaimed “King of New York”.
However,
the “King of New York” line didn’t bode well for too many people, especially
those who hail from there. Papoose, a New York Rapper, responded to Kendrick’s
verse by saying “If you disrespect New York, I disrespect you”. In addition to
that, he went on to make a Control remix, in which he goes on to say in
reference to Kendrick “You a Fu**in joke, I laugh at you hehehe”. Several other
rappers made remixes to this song, including Joel Ortiz, Joe Budden, and
Cassidy.
The
other line that was maybe the most controversial was when he mentioned his
peers that are relevant to today’s hip-hop community, and called them out:
“I'm usually homeboys with the same ni**as
I'm rhymin' with But this is hip hop and them ni**as should know what
time it is And that goes for
Jermaine Cole, Big KRIT, Wale Pusha T, Meek Millz, A$AP Rocky, Drake,
Big Sean, Jay Electron', Tyler, Mac Miller I got love for you all but
I'm tryna murder you ni**as Tryna
make sure your core fans never heard of you ni**as”.
Kendrick implied that although he is friends with
the people he mentioned in the verse, he also wants to be the best among all
of them. He is trying to be so much better than them that they would sound
mediocre at best in comparison to him.
The responses generated by the people he
mentioned were mainly positive given the lack of meaningful content in the rap
genre in recent years. They felt as though this kind of thing was needed to
motivate other artist to put their best foot forth. Meek Mill responded to the
verse saying “I live for competitive things…I don’t want to lose in nothing”.
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| Drake |
One of the other superstar rappers, however, didn’t
take too kindly to Kendrick’s controversial verse. Drake suggested, according
to an interview with Big Boy’s Neighborhood on Power 106, he suggested that no
one mentioned in the song would want to do a record with Kendrick after that
whole situation. As far as him doing a song, he said “I’m good”. He added that
he was just concentrating on the album he was then about to come out with.
Just recently, on the BET Hip-Hop Awards Cypher,
Kendrick Lamar added fuel to the fire by doing a verse on what most people
thought was a shot at Drake. Could there be another battle stirring up in the
hip-hop rap industry? Check out the diss Kendrick Lamar supposedly threw at
Drake in the link right below.
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