Childish Gambino has weighed in on Kendrick Lamar and Drake‘s beef, using it to make a wider point about society in 2024.
The rapper and actor hopped on TikTok Live on Wednesday (June 26) to talk about the high-profile feud and how he believes it reflects a concerning trend permeating modern culture.
“The problem is, we’re not having enough fun. So this rollout that’s coming, it’s mostly about fun, I’m trying to have fun,” he said, referencing his upcoming album Bando Stone in the New World.
“I feel like there’s just people not having enough fun […] When I was a kid, there were big things that would unite us, and I just feel bad for y’all. This generation just does not get — y’all get, like, bad stuff. Everything that everybody can get in on is usually fucked up.”
“Even this year, the most fun we’ve had was from a fight. A song from a fight, from a rap beef,” he continued, referencing Kendrick’s chart-topping diss song “Not Like Us.” “Which I enjoyed every minute of. It was very fun. But still, kinda negative in a certain light, I guess.”
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Childish Gambino isn’t the first Hip Hop figure to critique the heated feud between the two rap titans.
Questlove took issue with gossipy accusations that became a staple of the diss tracks exchanged between Drake and Kendrick Lamar.
“Nobody won the war,” he wrote on Instagram last month. “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 K. Dot and Drizzy to step their game up, morally speaking, The Roots drummer added in the caption of his post: “Here We Are Now…Entertain us?”
Charlamagne Tha God also admitted he did not entirely enjoy the battle due to some of the accusations thrown around such as pedophilia and domestic abuse.
“I don’t like seeing these brothers Me Too-ing each other over a rap feud. To me, that’s corny,” he said on The Breakfast Club. “If you’re going to call somebody a pedophile, if you’re going to call someone a woman beater, you got to have some real proof.
“You’re going to accuse my friend and my girl of having a baby, and me thinking that that child is mine — those are some heavy accusations.”
The radio host added: “It’s not like they’re trying to hold each other accountable; they’re just throwing these types of accusations around to attempt to ruin the image of the other, and that’s whack to me. Other than that, it’s been great.”
fun? a 1 befroom 2+K & they still payin 1990s wages aint not time for fun detached celeb
For real. Easy to shuck and jive about fun when you’re rich as hell.
Most are small minded. Most have never left block, so that mentality stays with them forever. Though I love hip hop we glorify any and everything negative. Go to rock concert and it’s all about the positive experience and appreciating the artist and everyone around.
Awww, you’ve never heard of Black, Doom or Death Metal obviously.
Spoken like a person who ain’t never been to a rock concert ever but figured this bc they saw Coldplay at the Superbowl on TV. Sit down.
Battle was fun to me. We need more depth, honesty and accountability. We don’t need anymore needless fiddling while Rome burns. We don’t need anymore tap dancing with fake and forced smiles either.
love it when your mama was on crack selling her ass out on the street. felt authentic to me. felt truly american. your mama naked ass out on the block doing whatever for crack was downright ICONIC
@gay greg aka LeicaFanBoy stop liking your own comments, you waste of life
90 percent of the garbage posted on this absolute joke of a website is about fruitcake Drake. LIKE LITERALLY 90 PERCENT! To the entire non-credible, fraudulent, embarrassing, laughable, corny, cringy, retarded DuncecapD/X SHIT STAFF: YOU SUPER SLOW SH0RT BUS RIDERS HAVE ALREADY REACHED YOUR OVER RATED AF FRUIT CAKE DRAKE QUOTA FOR THE MONTH LIKE 693 IRRELEVANT AZZ ARTICIES AGO. STUCK ON STUPID AZZ MFERS GET DRAKE’S BUTT HOLE OUT OF YOUR MOUTHS AND GO GET REAL FUCKING JOBS WHERE YOU CAN ACTUALLY MAKE SOME REAL MONEY AND NOT LAUGHED AT BY EVERYONE EVERY SINGLE DAY THE WAY YOU DICKHEADS DO NOW. THIS WHOLE RET@RDED TR@SH STAFF ARE THE POSTER LOSERS FOR WHAT N0T TO BE IN LIFE. It doesn’t get anymore pathetic than this gay goofy Sam the super simp Boore. Beyond Embarrassing.
I don’t like seeing our culture beefing and fighting with one another.. I truly believe that we are our own worst enemy we fight with each other we beef with each other we break each other down and then the next thing you know it there’s the killing people get hurt we are on worst enemy The devil is moving in and destroying lives and people are letting that happen and if any one of these rappers will put God first they wouldn’t have time to be worrying about what the next person is doing or saying about them but when you let the devil in this is what happens creates a problem..
I don’t like seeing our culture beefing and fighting with one another.. I truly believe that we are our own worst enemy we fight with each other we beef with each other we break each other down and then the next thing you know it there’s the killing people get hurt we are on worst enemy The devil is moving in and destroying lives and people are letting that happen and if any one of these rappers will put God first they wouldn’t have time to be worrying about what the next person is doing or saying about them but when you let the devil in this is what happens creates a problem..
I just want one little smooch from Drake and my life would be complete 🥰
My uncle used to touch me in weird when I was a kid. He often had Kendrick music playing in the background while he diddled me. Ever since then I hate Bendrick’s music
Well, damn. You must be like 12 then. Gotta troll an older rapper in the game to make that work, weirdo Drake twink.
Bendrick fans obsessed with child molestation and pedos what else is new. dude has a song calling another dude a pedo for having an 18 year old girlfriend and homos call it art. gone set you up to get robbed though don’t worry your day is coming. you gone give it up smooth
U really sound stupid
You give “Drake twink” who is still too much child in danger of getting got. You also have a block from all that cognitive dissonance to pivot when getting new info. You can separate the art from the artist but that goes over the head everythime with children
cocksuckers gone die
gone make bendrick bleed out his ass proper like the bitch he has always identified as
I meant Drake no Bendrick.
There was beef in Hip Hop all the time when Donald Glover was younger. Where the fuck was he at. That kind of comment makes no sense.