André 3000 has offered his thoughts on the beef between Kendrick Lamar and Drake — and does not appear to be the biggest fan.
Speaking to Crack Magazine about the high-profile feud, the OutKast legend admitted that the battle between two of his favorite rappers made him “sad.”
“I got a little sad, at a certain point,” he admitted. “In early rap battles, you had kids in the park rapping against each other. But it’s not just people rapping now. You got people with 100 employees. You have livelihoods, empires, companies, deals — all of it can be jeopardized.
“If you don’t have anything to lose, sure, go for it. But if I already made it, I’m not sure it’s even worth it any more.”
Despite not enjoying the feud, 3 Stacks enjoyed Kendrick shouting him out on Future and Metro Boomin‘s “Like That,” where he rapped: “If he walk around with that stick, it ain’t André 3K.”
“As a 49-year-old rapper, you’re just happy to get a shoutout. But as a rapper, I’ve noticed myself walking around with this stick,” he told the publication. “So it was a line for me, too, and I was trying to find a way to use it. But Kendrick used it, so I had to say ‘Yeah, he got it.’”
André 3000 isn’t alone in his ambivalence towards the beef. Questlove previously called out Drake and Kendrick Lamar for the salacious nature of their diss songs.
“Nobody won the war,” he wrote on Instagram during the height of the feud. “This wasn’t about skill. This was a wrestling match level mudslinging and takedown by any means necessary — women & children (& actual facts) be damned.
“Same audience wanting blood will soon put up ‘rip’ posts like they weren’t part of the problem. Hip Hop truly is dead.”
Challenging both rappers to step their game up, morally speaking, The Roots drummer added in the caption: “Here We Are Now…Entertain us?”
The feud saw a number of wild accusations get thrown about by both men, with Kendrick accusing Drake of being a pedophile and a drug addict who is also hiding an 11-year-old daughter.
In turn, Drizzy claimed that K. Dot physically abused his longtime partner Whitney Alford and suggested that one of the couple’s children actually belonged to Kendrick’s business partner Dave Free.
None of the allegations have been backed up with evidence.
But both of them will praise 2Pac when Hit Em Up was literally a 4 minute long death threat. Couldn’t the same be said about 50 vs Ja and Nas vs Jay-Z? All 4 of them at the time had brands and employees. Didn’t see them clutching their Rosemarie and singing Kumbaya My Lord then. Love both of them as artists but this is a bad take.
But both of them will praise 2Pac when Hit Em Up was literally a 4 minute long death threat. Couldn’t the same be said about 50 vs Ja and Nas vs Jay-Z? All 4 of them at the time had brands and employees. Didn’t see them clutching their Rosemarie and singing Kumbaya My Lord then. Love both of them as artists but this is a bad take.
Did they actually praise 2pac though, or are you just inserting your own hyperbole? Given Andre’s statement, I don’t think he would.
Outkast didn’t co-sign that at the time, and Pac had relationships with a lot of those Atlanta rappers since he lived there a lot of the time from 1994 onward. I have high school friends with pictures with Pac just being in Atlanta being a regular dude. Also, there was real street shit that happened in both of those beefs, which was what people were pointing out about how stupid that lame thing happened a couple of months back didn’t have. Pac got shot by Bad Boy affiliates and now we know Sean Combs was actively trying to kill him for years. Ja was Supreme Team affiliated, and they tried to kill 50. Less urgent, but Jay fucked Nas’ baby mama. All of those had good reasons to take it to wax, and you wish it would have stayed on wax in the Pac/Biggie example. What reason was there for the Drake/Kendrick beef? One of these is not the same.
Off Topic: Breakin’ is on the Olympics today for the first time (10am ET start time). You’d think being an original element of hip hop, this hip hop website would recognize that. Just kidding, we all know this place has been bullshit for years.
Cant wait to see breaking at the olympics. Gonna be fire. Also been enjoying 3×3 basketball. Peace
@B – Right? females today, males tomorrow. Logistix (USA) has been dope so far.
Been glued to the tv, such a hip hop moment. Not sure why this site isn’t reporting on it.
Idk why anyone cares about what 3000 gotta say about anything going ok in the game. He is not interested in rap, and sounds bored and uninspired when he speaks about it.
He doesn’t give 3000 fucks about rap anymore.
Same here. I’ve been having trouble sleeping ever since tbe songs dropped. I wish they’d both apologize and kiss so i can get some rest…
Canada got the gold 100×4!!!
My aunt is also a little sad about this beef. Do you want her number? She’s a nice lady and will tell her honest opinion.
Andre is one of the greatest emcees of all gdamn time. But his takes are verging on cringe.
Ninja go play a flute. This is hiphop and battling is apart of the culture. Drake is still a millionaire, he will be fine.
I’m so sick of people in the industry trying to float this “Can’t we all get along?” bullshit. Drake is a sexual predator. Who gives a fuck if his shitty team’s employment is jeopardized?
Ironically I think Andre 3k lost his love for rap by not rapping with people that could lyrically challenge him enough. No songs with Lupe, Common, Nas, Kendrick, J. Cole, etc.