Dame Dash has declared Kendrick Lamar vs. Drake the greatest rap battle of all time.
Speaking on his America Nu Network, the Roc-A-Fella Records co-founder explained his argument while also crowning Kendrick the winner of the hotly contested feud.
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“As far as fighting goes, in this moment, Kendrick won,” he said. “It’s almost by far now. Last week, it was neck and neck, but after the last exchange with the pedophile thing and the response and the [impact] of ‘Not Like Us,’ it seems like he’s disrupted Drake’s life.”
He continued: “I don’t know what’s going on over there with the shooting at [Drake’s] crib, but what I’m finding out is so many people that you might not think are like that or involved in certain things, those be the ones where you’re like, ‘Goddamn, they were doing that!’
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“It does seems like the industry is just sick of Drake. I didn’t know there was so much hatred — not hatred, but so many different people that are in the industry have sort of gone against him, and I didn’t know that there were so many people that had problems with him.”
Dame then gave K. Dot and Drizzy the edge over other historical battles such as 2Pac vs. Biggie, Ice Cube vs. N.W.A and even his former business partner JAY-Z‘s feud with Nas.
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“This has been the best battle of all time,” he declared. “I’ve been here in Hip Hop for a while — this has been the most impactful battle to where it looks like the battle songs are changing the trajectory of that artist’s life.
“It just seems like things are different for Drake right now. I’ve never seen this happen before.”
Dame Dash says the Kendrick Lamar vs Drake is the best rap battle of all time and that Kendrick Lamar won.
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Dame Dash recently reflected on the early ’00s beef between JAY-Z and Nas and claimed that the latter emerged victorious, despite his alliance with Hov at the time.
“Jay’s response was terrible,” Dame said on the That’s F***ed Up Podcast, referencing Jigga’s divisive “Supa Ugly” response to Nas’ “Ether.”
“The thing is, we had first hit him with the joint at Summer Jam that was kinda hard, the ‘Takeover.’ But when [Nas] came with the ‘Ether,’ I was kinda hype because he said my name. I was like, ‘I guess I’m in a rap record.’
“But the response, I wasn’t there for the response. Irv Gotti fucked that one up. Every time Irv Gotti got in my business, he fucked shit up … He threw that ‘Ether’ on him. He had him apologizing. The rap that he did was wack — when I heard it, I was pissed.”
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He continued: “I was coming from doing a Rocawear ad on a private [jet]. I had just landed from like Arizona and I’m listening to this shit on the radio like, ‘What the fuck is this?’ So I was like, ‘Go to the fucking Baseline [Studios],’ you know, ’cause I wanna know what happened. I’m like, ‘What the fuck happened?’
“And they in there high-fiving and shit. I’m like, ‘What you high-fiving for? This shit is wack.’ This n-gga talking about other n-ggas’ business and shit, like we don’t do that. And it was Irv. I was like, ‘Irv Gotti.’ I called Irv, told him don’t ever get in my business again bro, like, ‘What you doing? You not about war.’”
