Funkmaster Flex doesn’t seem to share the excitement much of the Hip Hop community has felt about the recent back and forth between Kendrick Lamar and Drake.
As a matter of fact, the veteran New York City DJ has now questioned the merit of the battle altogether.
On Thursday (June 20), as the internet continued to reel from K. Dot’s “Pop Out” Concert — which saw the rapper perform “Euphoria” and “Not Like Us” — Flex took to X (formerly Twitter) to ask what the point of the dispute between the two artists have been.
“I HAVE DRAKE / KENDRICK QUESTION?,” he wrote. “WAS IT A LYRICAL COMPETITION? OR A MARKETING / CAREER RELAUNCH? I NEED TO UNDERSTAND WHAT ARE THE RULES IN A LYRICAL BATTLE?”
I HAVE DRAKE / KENDRICK QUESTION?
WAS IT A LYRICAL COMPETITION?
OR A MARKETING / CAREER RELAUNCH?
I NEED TO UNDERSTAND WHAT ARE THE RULES IN A LYRICAL BATTLE?— Funk Flex !!!!! (@funkflex) June 20, 2024
While Funkmaster Flex may have an unpopular opinion of the contest, he is far from the first Hip Hop OG to comment on the feud.
LL COOL J, for one, recently shared that he feels that Kendrick Lamar and Drake‘s beef was “great” for Hip Hop – and that K.Dot definitely won.
Appearing on The Bootleg Kev Podcast in an episode published on Tuesday (June 18), Cool James – who knows a thing or two about rap beefs – shared his thoughts on the infamous feud.
“I thought it was great for Hip Hop,” he told Kev. “I thought it was the right thing. I thought they both did well, they held their own. I thought that Kendrick won, but I thought that Drake by no means did he embarrass himself or have anything to hold his head down about.”
LL continued: “He did his thing, he showed up and I think his fans can feel comfortable wit that. […] The key to that stuff is as a long as it doesn’t distract you from your ultimate goal, it’s a wonderful thing to participate in. I love it.”
Meanwhile, Ice Cube doesn’t believe Kendrick Lamar is finished beefing with Drake.
Speaking with Shaquille O’Neal on a recent episode of The Big Podcast, the N.W.A legend offered his thoughts on the fiery rap beef that ended up involving families and wild accusations about pedophilia and domestic abuse.
Offering his take on the feud, Cube said: “I always approve of rap battles. That’s the essence of the game. It goes back to Busy Bee and Kool Moe Dee and even further than that. It’s part of the game as long as it doesn’t get physical because that’s not rap.
He concluded: “I think Kendrick is up, he’s landed the more hard and effective punches, but that don’t mean Drake can’t get off the canvas. If I was Kendrick, I’d stay locked and loaded just to be ready for whatever.”
no it was a who can say the shit to get the other one canceled competition, there were alot of things each person said that got disproved and proven as false or a set up and someone took the bait..it was a sloppy ahh battle that kendrick one by default (bc the world wanted drake to lose) and bc kendrick had the better song
no it was a who can say the shit to get the other one canceled competition, there were alot of things each person said that got disproved and proven as false or a set up and someone took the bait..it was a sloppy ahh battle that kendrick one by default (bc the world wanted drake to lose) and bc kendrick had the better song
You know what it was for. It was to get these slumping numbers up. It served no other purpose. Music as a whole in the genre is still in decline; there are no new stars on the horizon; and no one changed their mind about anything due to this wack beef. There should be some new 22 year old fresh faced star who is dropping hot shit, and instead, we have these damn near 40 year olds who haven’t put out good music in years still as the center of hip hop.
That’s exactly why the old skool rappers are holding the reign. Cause they still moving numbers. New skool cant flow to shit, off beat. Off everything
Nobody is moving units. Taylor Swift, Drake, and Bad Bunny accounted for 70%of the industry’s revenue last year. Old heads aren’t moving anything; young dudes aren’t moving anything. The industry is in the shitter.
Funk Flex is dead on the money with this. I still will listen to Drake. People try to ruin others for their a purpose….We see everything that unfolded, all the old heads from the West gathered behind Drake (so they can relaunch their careers), it’s all marketing…Drake DOES make good music, i won’t stop listening to his music. A lot of people clowning him now are just followers…deep down they love his music as well.
Funk Flex is dead on the money with this. I still will listen to Drake. People try to ruin others for their a purpose….We see everything that unfolded, all the old heads from the West gathered behind Drake (so they can relaunch their careers), it’s all marketing…Drake DOES make good music, i won’t stop listening to his music. A lot of people clowning him now are just followers…deep down they love his music as well.
what old heads was behind Drake?🤔 did you not see Kendricks pop out concert? the old heads was LITERALLY on stage with him while he was performing Drake disses🤣🤣🤣 no og’s came to his defense.
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@kennyKen you do you. Enjoy whatever you enjoy. We all have different tastes. I myself have never enjoyed a single Drake song in my life. LOVED kendrick 09-12, since then, I dislike his music and his attitude. I miss the humble good kid from compton, who turned into the cocky sanctimonious dude. But music is like beauty in general. We all have different tastes, and they change with time. Music I once loved doesn’t sound good to me anymore, and music I once hated sounds great. As a former hardcore K Dot follower though, I’m sick of being called a Drake fan for hating the direction Kendricks gone. Kendrick once sounded like a new age death Roe type artist. Now he sounds more like a new age young money artist, and I never enjoyed any of that stuff. Guess I’m just stuck in the past with the sounds I like.
@Shorty, that was a mistake I meant all the old heads from the West gathered behind K. Dot.
Larry June is the best out the West at this moment. Don’t let this sheep tell you otherwise
We all know that K-dot can rap circles around drake.. but Drizzy makes the best music to twerk to. Me and the homies love to have sleep-overs while we shake our little booties off to Drizzy’s music
Swear funk flex is brain dead
everybody dies in this bitch and nobody getting out alive
You sound like a mayosapian 🤡 who’s having a mental break- seek help flour ranger because no one is taking you seriously.
there’s no rap I respect period and you can come and get cocksuckers fuck all of you
Then why are you always commenting on here?
it ain’t nothing that a bullet won’t fix. fuck these homos fuck their music fuck their heros fuck bendrick fuck snoop fuck the west fuck california and fuck los angeles suck my cock gang bangers and losers. you will stay in that toilet forever
Lol, this bot has gone rogue…
Career relaunch lmao. Someone hasn’t dropped hits in 7 years.
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.
I see any gang banger activity on my block – I call the cops. Straight up. Jam fools up this summer. Fuck you. Fuck all you bloods fuck all you crips. I see it on my block pulling out the cell phone and calling 911
Drake the r&b singer pissed off all the cringe obsessed nerds. He should have just let his fellow Judeans at Interscope get off their Kendrick album rollout, and congrats to UMG and Baby Keems pen for resurrecting the washed up rapper, that was magic, Family Matters.
Kendrick doesnt like Drake, baited him into a battle and destroyed him. That was the purpose of the battle. What did we get? A bunch of great songs and an incredible concert. Why is anybody complaining? Competition and hip hop goes hand in hand.