French Montana made an interesting claim on Tuesday (April 21), tweeting he has more hits than Grammy Award-winning, Pulitzer Prize-having, multiplatinum-selling, Academy Award-nominated MC Kendrick Lamar — but in true Maury Povich fashion, the internet determined “that was a lie!”
“IF WE JUST TALKING ABOUT ANTHEMS, ME VS KENDRICK HIT FOR HIT!” he wrote in all caps. ” I BELIEVE I CAN GO NECK TO NECK !! I BEEN MAKING HITS FOR A LONG TIME ! IT AINT MY FAULT I BELIEVE IN MYSELF. HOW WAS I SUPPOSED TO ANSWER THAT QUESTION ? HOW MANY TIMES I GOTTA PROVE MYSELF BEFORE I GET MINE.”
All it took was a quick Google search to compare notes. As DJ Booth so kindly pointed out, Montana has zero Billboard Hot 100 No. 1s, two Top 10 hits and 17 chart entries, while K. Dot has stacked two No. 1s on the Hot 100, eight Top 10 hits and 48 chart entries.
In terms of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), Montana has four gold and nine platinum plaques compared to Lamar’s 15 golds and 24 platinums. DAMN. alone was certified triple platinum in 2018 and debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. “HUMBLE” subsequently became Lamar’s first No. 1 on the Hot 100.
Montana’s comments came after a recent interview he did with Complex where he said he might “outshine” Lamar if they were to do a festival together. The reactions to Montana’s claim vary on Twitter. While some people agree with his sentiment, they are quick to point out it doesn’t mean his music is higher quality or that he can sell more concert tickets.
Montana continued to entertain the notion with a series of tweets, explaining his attitude to apply to any rapper.
“I love kendrick!” he added. “that’s not just for kendrick that’s to anybody they put in front of me, and ask me that same question. what u want me to say lol? It should be your attitude too. If u think any less of yourself don’t blame it on the next person who don’t! set it up.”
When someone noted he “got more hits than someone whose main focus isn’t making it,” Montana replied, “My point exactly! He is a different artist. I was just sayin’ I’ll win that part he is gonna win everything else but give me mines lol.”
He wrote in a separate tweet, “I was talking about hits we can go neck to neck not taking nothing away from him just standing [up] for myself is that still cool? Lol.”
Par for the course, Twitter erupted with reactions to Montana’s bold proclamation. Feast on some of the reactions below.
Best French Montana songs: “Stay Schemings”, “No Shopping”, “No Stylist”, “Pop That” …on all those tracks , Drake outshines him. French Montana is a sidekick
They still French tracks though.
They only bang because of Drake, take Drake out and it becomes just another filler track on French’s album.
Say no to drugs people. Lean done messed this fool up.
French is trash af as a rapper, but if we’re talking REAL BANGERS….he wins over Kendrick. Sorry, Kendrick don’t have real BANGERS aside from two or three joints. Kendrick a better artist tho
If we talkin REAL BANGERS, French has none! French needs a feature to make a hit period! I don’t even wanna be down on French but he can’t hold his own against Kendrick or Thug.
Hope you don’t get faaaaaamous slaaaaaps if you’re being honest with yourself. That weird Kendrick kid voice needs to stop
And there it is, you defined a banger as ‘slapping’ and that right there shows that you’re a fickle fan that only really listens to trash.
French Montana is pound-for-pound one of the most boring rappers of the past 20 years
He right – French always has great production even tho he is boring. He even did a bunch of projects with Harry fraud (great ear for beats)
A lot of the best emcees struggle with beat selection – Kendrick being a prime example – GKMC was his only classic
I didn’t know it was possible to fit so many shit opinions into two sentences
When I want – French Montana. I’ll listen to this over Kendricks weird whiny whispering voice he been doing post GKMC and that’s REAL
I’m embarrassed for your parents
LMAO
I think he actually meant he’d ” had more dicks than kendrick lamar “. See, now it makes more sense.
I have 100000000 for any person that can show me a French Montana hot song that didn’t have a feature that easily outshined him. This nigga has DJ Khalid syndrome. He’s around good artists while contributing nothing of value and he thinks he’s great somehow.