Kendrick Lamar may be widely considered as one of the greatest rappers of his generation, but even he’s not immune to the Twitter jokes.
On Wednesday night (September 8), a new Baby Keem and Kendrick Lamar collaboration called “Range Brothers” — taken from Keem’s upcoming album The Melodic Blue — made the rounds on social media. However, the song was met with as much confusion and derision as excitement.
That’s thanks to Kung-Fu Kenny delivering a series of bizarre and repetitive ad-libs towards the end of the song.
“Top o’ the morning/Top o’ the morning/Top o’ the morning,” he repeats over the pounding trap production. He then switches it up by chanting, “Let’s get this shit/Let’s get this shit/Let’s get this shit.”
Fans on Twitter proceeded to roast Kendrick from here to Compton. “What the HELL is Kendrick Lamar doing bruh,” one user wrote, while another joked, “Kendrick Lamar’s feature on Range Brothers now leaves me wanting him to star in Leprechaun in the Hood 3.”
Despite his unusual ad-libs — which some fans speculate may be him parodying certain new school rappers — Kendrick Lamar does actually rap on “Range Brothers,” delivering the kind of rapid-fire rhymes that back up his “Family Ties” claim that he’s about to take over in 2021.
“Everybody wanna be great, but the word don’t relate/And the life be mistakin’ the truth, n-gga/I remember bankin’ with Chase like four-hundred K, starin’ at it I don’t know what to do, n-gga/Now I look at money like a resource, every contract gotta put my kid’s family in school/Health and wealth, goin’ deep for it, do right for my next life,” he raps.
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Fans can hear the full version of “Range Brothers” when Baby Keem’s The Melodic Blue arrives at midnight on Friday (September 10) via Kendrick Lamar and Dave Free’s pgLang company in partnership with Columbia Records. Travis Scott and Don Toliver are also set to appear on the album.
Meanwhile, Kendrick Lamar’s own forthcoming album — his last on TDE — appears to be inching closer after the “HUMBLE.” rapper registered over 30 new songs on ASCAP earlier this month.
In the meantime, check out more reactions to Kendrick Lamar’s “Range Brothers” ad-libs below.
Its funny how hiphopdx and other media outlets hype this guy up but most of the comments talk about how he’s overrated. There’s a distinct difference between what we the people want and what the media wants us to want.
Wow are you an oracle? Not propaganda just an inters cope artist you silly sausage
I TOLLDD YALLL OVER AND OVER KENDRICK IS WAYYYYYYY OVER RATED. TAKE AWAY DR DRE ON HIS TEAM EARLY ON AND HUGE APPLE DEAL. HIS LYRICS AINT THAT DOPE. THEY BE REGUALLLRRRRR
What’s the link to your SoundCloud, Craig?!
You fugazi.
Yeah.. we should also take away all of the American and International awards he won for those lyrics along with the fu@king Pulitzer Prize!!!
Please stfu Craig!!!
STFU Craig.
You craeeezy
Craig you are a uneducated fool, good on your self satisfaction and ignorance
Also when have you told me or anyone anything you silly battered sausage
everyone clowned that high-pitched bit Future did on the black panther soundtrack and folks love it now lol so it’s whatever
What to blog/website “writers” get to just troll twitter and ig all day. Then act like they in the streets, gettin the vibe from the people. Gtfoh. ?
So you wrote an article about how a bunch of nobodies who have less than 20 likes on there Twitter, post tweets, telling someone as big as Kendrick, who probably doesn’t give a fuck if they live or die, the value of what he did with the music. Cool. 2021 people, Gen Z’s tweets determine the value of your art, not you the artist
This website is garbage.
Definitely and twitter is full of morons