Birdman Denies Drake Dissing Kendrick Lamar On “The Language”

    When Drake’s “The Language” was released, some speculated that the Toronto rapper was speaking about Kendrick Lamar

    “I don’t know why they been lyin’,” Drake rhymes on the selection featured on Nothing was the Same. “But your shit is not that inspirin’ / Bank account statements just look like I’m ready for early retirement / Fuck any nigga that’s talkin’ that shit just to get a reaction / Fuck going platinum / I looked at my wrist and it’s already platinum / I am the kid with the motor mouth / I am the one you should worry about / I don’t know who you’re referring to, who is this nigga you heard about? / Someone just talking that bullshit, man, someone just gave you the run-around / Niggas downplaying the money, but that’s what you do when the money down.” 

    While some speculated that the song was a shot at Kendrick Lamar for his oft-discussed verse on Big Sean’s “Control,” Birdman says Drake was not dissing Lamar on the track.

    “Drake do what he do,” Birdman, who appears on the song, said in an interview with MTV. “He really slick with whatever he do. He makes you think. But I didn’t think he put no energy into that.”

    Birdman Explains TDE Connection

    Birdman went on to talk about his connection to Kendrick Lamar and Anthony “Top Dawg” Tiffith.

    “Kendrick the homey,” Birdman said. “I ain’t got nothin’ but love and respect for Kendrick. Top Dawg is one of my best friends, so I would never want to see us condone that…That ain’t what this about…I don’t think he went that route, to me.”

    Birdman added that he hopes to not see a feud between Drake and Lamar.

    “That’s Hip Hop too, but I don’t think we need to do that, because then you have to focus on that individual and we do this for the people,” Birdman said. “I would never want to see that from none of my team or my teammates.”

    The interview can be viewed below. 

    Drake has addressed “Control” several times of late. 

    “It just wasn’t real to me,” Drake told New York radio station Hot 97 recently, as per MTV. “I saw him after that and it was just like love, so it’s like was that real or was that for the people? Those were harsh words. You can’t just say that and see me like, ‘Yeah, man, what’s up,’ pretending like nothing ever happened. That’s not real.”

    Drake has also said he lost respect for the sentiments of Kendrick Lamar’s verse.

    “He didn’t come in there on some wild, ‘I’m in New York, fuck everybody,’” Drake said. “I almost wish he had come in there on that shit because I kind of lost a little bit of respect for the sentiment of the verse,” Drake said. “If it’s really ‘fuck everybody’ then it needs to be ‘fuck everybody’. It can’t just be halfway.”

    Beyond that, Drake also recently said that Kendrick Lamar is not “murdering” him in any way.

    “I didn’t really have anything to say about it,” Drake said recently. “It just sounded like an ambitious thought to me,” Drake revealed. “That’s all it was. I know good and well that Kendrick’s not murdering me, at all, in any platform. So when that day presents itself, I guess we can revisit the topic.”

    Additionally, Drake also recently said that he’s “done” with the “Control” record.

    “I’m probably like as done as the rest of the world is with that record,” Drake said. “I think it came and it went. And not to discredit it. It was a good moment, but at the end of the day it’s just like—it was one of those sort of like fleeting Twitter frenzies that like—it was cool for what it was. My thing is I like lasting power. I feel like he made a decision, you know what I’m saying? And it was a decision to make. He was like ‘Man, I’m either gonna go for this moment because I know it’s gonna be a big moment or I’m gonna take heed to the fact that I have real relationships and I’m gonna like not do that.’ Cause I’ll be real, I thought of doing that before. I thought ‘Man, it’d be crazy if I just went off on everybody.’ But it’s just kinda like, ‘Ah, where does it really get me? Then what? Then every time I rap people are gonna expect me to be confrontational and when I’m not then it’s not entertaining?’ It’s like it kinda puts you in a box a bit. I don’t know if I necessarily respect it.”

    RELATED: Drake Says Kendrick Lamar “Is Not Murdering Me, At All” 

    153 thoughts on “Birdman Denies Drake Dissing Kendrick Lamar On “The Language”

    1. [Verse 1]
      I don’t know why they been lying but your shit is not that inspiring
      Bank account statements just look like I’m ready for early retirement
      Fuck any nigga that’s talkin’ that shit just to get a reaction
      Fuck going platinum, I looked at my wrist and it’s already platinum
      I am the kid with the motor mouth
      I am the one you should worry about
      I don’t know who you’re referring to, who is this nigga you heard about?
      Someone just talking that bullshit, man someone just gave you the run-around
      Niggas downplaying the money but that’s what you do when the money down
      I don’t waste time putting money down
      I just go straight to who got it and buy it in cash
      Pussy so good that you gotta come see me on tour
      And you gotta fly in first class
      This has been years in the making, it’s all for the city
      They know I come right every summer, Cash Money Records forever
      I’m always big timing, bitch, I came up right under Stunna
      You know it

      [Hook]
      Jealousy in the air tonight, I could tell
      I will never understand that but oh well
      Been ready, it’s real, I don’t know about you
      She just want to smoke and fuck
      I said “Girl, that’s all that we do”
      Okay, now you’re talking my language
      Now you’re talking my language
      Now you’re talking my language
      Now you’re talking my language
      Been ready, it’s real, I don’t know about you
      She just want to smoke and fuck
      I said “Girl, that’s all that we do”

      [Verse 2]
      I’m about to roll one and light it and fuck it man, no one’s invited
      I got to kill off the weak shit that’s got all you niggas excited
      I can’t even listen, you whylin’, I’d much rather sit here in silence
      I send all my money to banks in the islands and eat with Italians, I do
      People are funny you don’t even know about the shit that I been through
      I just want some head in a comfortable bed, it could all be so simple
      Talking that shit with your back to me, just know it always get back to me
      Come get your girl, she been here for three days
      And she way too attached to me
      Hate when they get too attached to me
      I got to get on the bus and get back on the road
      Get what I can out the country
      And then I just get on the jet and go back to the cold
      Can’t even drive with the top off
      Been workin’ so hard on the album I missed the whole summer
      I just might bring in some girls from Miami
      To heat up the city and that’s word to Stunna
      You know it

      [Hook]

    2. Will people stop saying that Drake and Manziel are a couple? They just care about each other in the way friends care about each other. They never kissed at all and if they did, its a brotherly kiss that isn’t gay.

      Also, if you say drake and manziel are gay, how come you don’t consider black hippy gay or that gay z and kayne west are a couple?

      1. Well I’ve never heard of manziel, but I wasn’t thinking they were gay till I read your comment. Now I’m convinced.

      2. Don’t mind me…I’m just mad cause I tried to talk to Drake first and he turned me down. That slut Johnny Football stole my man!

    3. kdot would murder drake on every platform except making wack ass songs for bitches. drake KNOWS that kendrick would kill him. listen to a kendrick verse and then a drake verse. all drake raps about is money and giving girls goodnight kisses. drake the type of nigga who can tie his shoes without bending his knees. go get murdered drake, please….go get murdered.

    4. This looks a little to obvious… I listened to the song and it sounded like he was aiming it at k.dot now he’s trying to cover it up?

    5. First of all I wanted to thank Drake for shouting out all Chartered Accountants on Tuscan Leather. That’s incontravertible proof that I’m boys with Drake. As an accountant for Birdman, I can confirm that he is the largest equity investor in TDE. As a matter of fact, he has a larger stake than Anthony Tiffith does. Birdman is the biggest mogul in the rap game. He has Wayne, Drake, Kendrick and Nicki in his portfolio.

      1. Birdman makes more money off of rap than Diddy, Dre and Jay-Z. That’s why he is the BIGGEST RAP MOGUL. I never said he was the biggest entreprenuer.

      2. The reason why Dre, Hov, and Diddy all ranked higher is because 1. they have other businesses too like sports management with Gay Z, headphones with Dr Dre, and vodka with Diddy. 2. they don’t spend their money to help people around the world unlike birdman and his ymcmb crew.

        Also, great for nicki making more money than birdman. She’s has her fragrances line.

      3. birdman has had many failed businesses outside of rap

        the fake ass oil company, his bullshit alcohol that no one buys

      4. Truth is Birdman will NEVER be on Jay and Diddy or even 50 cents level businesswide because no one wants to do business with a 40 year old nigga with shitty tattoos all over his face and his head… looks like a fucking highschool notebook

      5. @dentaldamboy shut up that nigga Birdman owe more niggas and been sued more than LAPD, that nigga aint got it like that trust me

      1. Me too man. I really feel a connection with artists when they talk about all their money and clothing and cars. Even though these things have no real effect on my life i really enjoy hearing about other people’s personal wealth.

      2. And that what half of these rapper are doing just talking about money, when you see these cat 99% of those rapper are broke and still renting, Fronting

    6. Birdman trys to keep all his artists out of any beef cause he knows that all his label would always come out on the bottom looking like a bunch of hoes and he dont wanna fuck his money up so hes best friends with everyone

    7. Birdman is terrified of competition and beef. He knows his artists are all pussies with no real skills on the mic and they would get embarrasses

    8. If he subliminally going at Kendrick, then he just subliminally going at Kendrick. It’s just rap SHEESH! Everybody wanna be cool..
      “Beef is when your moms ain’t safe on the streets! Beef is when I see you,
      guaranteed to be an ICU one more time What’s beef?
      Beef is when you make your enemies start your Jeep
      Beef is when you roll no less than 30 deep
      Beef is when I see you
      Guaranteed to be in ICU…”

      Again, with these guys — IT’S JUST RAP! Nothing more, nothing less…. No need to downplay or sugarcoat anything. Again, if he going at ’em, he going at ’em.

      1. You didn’t quote the first line of that hook…I’ll have to lower your grade for that.

        “What’s beef? Beef is when you need two gats to go to sleep…”

      1. Birdman ain’t got shit on Dr. Seuss! That dude been dead for over 20 years and he still pulls in 8 figures a year. Let’s kill Birdman and see if he can do that, too.

    9. if hiphop 40 years old

      it took 20 years to get to its prime and 20 to hit rock bottom
      when im 40 maybe hip hop be back

    10. maybe if drake made music like this

      cunninlynguists – heart

      if u dont what scribble jam was u dont know hip hop … leave this site cuz u fuckin up my music

    11. I’m tired of Sway pretending to think albums like Drake’s are classics. Sway is a hip hop head but he spits a lot of BS when he’s on air

    12. What Birdman really meant to say was, “We grind every summer, we shine every summer, and that’s how we do this”. That’s the only fucking thing he says so they must have misquoted him.

    13. drake seems the most butthurt by kendrick.. cuz he knows kendick just called drake on a skill he doesnt possess- battle rapping

    14. Why is drake feeling some type of way about Kendricks verse, saying things like going at everybody doesn’t get you anywhere. He’s being a hypocrite because he constantly raps about wanting to be the best and feeling like he is the best, Kendrick just so happened to name drop his competitors, so drizzy get out of your feelings

    15. “Truth is Birdman will NEVER be on Jay and Diddy or even 50 cents level businesswide”

      Birdman surpassed 50 a long time ago. He still successfully runs a musical empire that keeps putting millions in his pocket. 50 can’t even get an album out, and has to do horrible STV movies just to remain in whatever dim spotlight he’s in now.

    16. Alright, lets get one thing clear. Drake does NOT need to mention KenDICK LAME-ar to diss him. The shoe perfectly fits that pinhead-looking pussy nigga.

      YMCMB runs the rap game and yall just bitter bout that.

      Lil Wayne and Drake can EASILY terminate KenDICK’s petty career.

      At the age of 17, Wayne was in the mean streets of New Orleans gangbangin and living the life of a true thug.

      At the age of 17, Tupac was in a fancy rich snob school, takin ballet classes, prancing around like a ballerina in his tu-tu.

      At the age of 17, Kendrick was getting bullied by all of Compton’s true blood niggas (which Wayne has connections with) & was a NERD in high school.

      Nuff said.

      Lil Wayne is the KIGN of HIP HOP!

      1. LMFAO! You can’t even spell to king dumb ass go fuck yourself! I don’t like lamar that much but wayne ain’t real blood and not shit compared to tupac. Yeah wayne got some decent songs here and there but he is far from the king not even top 50! And for the record Canibus, Chino XL, Immortal Technique, Vinnie Paz, K-Rino, Celph Titled, Ras Kass, Killah Priest, Nas, Jay-Z, Tupac, Sean Price, GZA, Rakim, Krs one, Tech N9ne, Big L, Big daddy kane, Kool g rap and way way more would literally eat up phony emcee’s like drake and wayne… So how tha fuck can wayne be king then!?

      2. Oh great, typical response from a hip-hop dickhead nerd.

        Listen dipshit, all those old farts you listed are nothing but irrelevant has-beens & cant go toe-to-toe with neither Weezy or Drizzy.

        If they are sooo fuckin good then why the fuck are they now fanless and BROKE. No one fucks with them. You might as well listen to your gramps rapping lol.

        YMCMB is an Empire and Wayne runs this rap game.

        Wayne rapped circles around Eminem on both ‘Drop the World’ and ‘No Love’

        AND

        KRS-One said Lil Wayne was the greatest rapper of ALL TIME!

        Don’t believe me? Look it up. Do your research. Even your favorite rappers think Wayne is the GREATEST.

        Now get the fuck outta here nigga, you just got yo’ ass ETHERED.

        YMCMB!

      3. Im Not Trying To Offensive So Please Don’t Try To Come Back At Me Really Hard Or What Not You Came At Dude In Your Comments Saying The Rappers They Named Are ” Old Farts ” But Those Same ” Old Farts ” Inspired The People You Listen To Today If It Wasnt For Them There Would Be No Hip Hop. Please One Thing I Was Taught Dont Speak Ill Of The Dead But Tupac He Is That Dude HE Was Niiiiiice His Raps Meant Something Like Brenda’s Got A Baby, Keep ya head up & Etc. You Talk About How He Had A “False Backgroud” Tupac Was 100% Real He Knew The Struggle Growing Up In The Hood With His Mother On Crack Living Off Scraps & Shit But Wayne Had The False Background He Talked About How He Was A “Blood” No He Was Not I Know & Grew Up With Real Bloods, I Recall In One Of His Old Videos He Wore His Red Flag On The Wrong Side. Kendrick NEVER played Like he was a thug all he does is speak on his life growing up in compton . . . Rap is not about the “thug life” who got bodies or who pop shells and shit its the flow & substance of the lyrics not all about booty shaking ass clapping & all of that nonsense people be rapping about today. Could you do me a favor? just take the time to listen to the people he mentioned including tupac you will understand why people are saying Drake should not come at kendrick. Do NOT get me wrong I am a drake fan but i’m the oldddd drake fan his music now he lacks substance he has officially gone mainstream . Thanks for taking the time to read this if you did

    17. Its always the rappers who are about to or just dropped an album that get into this beef shit and everyone reading falls for the marketing scam every time. Oh so you didn’t know drake had a new album well read about it here in this article about dissing drake because everyone loves reading about beef.

    18. “You looking like an easy come up ya bish
      A silver spoon I know you come from ya bish”

      These K-Dot lines fit Drake perfectly. Drake is a bitch, Kendrick broke the Internet and had even mainstream (white) newspapers covering his Control verse. Drake is jealous, sees he’s not getting any attention for his emo-rap new album and starts dissing. He does not really want it with Kendrick..

      1. As much I respect Kendrick, he’s a soft nigga. Head-to-head, Drake would rip him apart, because Hip Hop is Drake’s territory right now, and he knows the inner workings. He may not be as lyrical as Kendrick, but he doesn’t need all that extra yip yap.

    19. I’ve come to the conclusion that Kendrick is too afraid to release a full diss track towards Drake. I’ve been a fan of Kendrick, but he appears to be a soft. Diddy almost pouring a drink on him at the party and being saved by “Jermaine Cole” and not following through on his “I’m tryna murder y’all niggaz, make sure your core fans never heard of you niggaz”. I mean, if you’re actually gonna do it and you want the crown, go head to head with Drake and take him down.

      But of course, there’s the chance of Drake ripping Kendrick a new one and that’s why he won’t do it.

      1. Real Bloods in LA (Compton) respect Wayne and got his back.

        No real gangster respected Pac. Thats why they terminated his bitch ass for being a fake ass loud mouth.

        YMCMB!

      2. The Last Nail to Tupac’s coffin.

        He has a sextape out. Which is SHOCKING.

        In it he is seen receiving ORAL SEX from a girl but thats NOT the shocking part.

        In the room other men are seen to be watching him get oral and they seem to be ENJOYING the show.

        Not only that but another man is seen to be caressing Pac’s back while he receives ORAL SEX.

        SUSPECT BEHAVIOR!!!

        Tupac was a HOMO-THUG!

        And with that said I hope Pac is burning in hell along with all the other gayboy faggots burning there too.

        Long Live Weezy!

      3. One time I was sucking on a butthole for so long that real blood came out, I kinda liked the taste of it & als had the gentleman shit on me for good measure. I love all types of homo fag behavior. I’m so gay for Drizzy, Mmmmmmmmmm

    20. If Kendrick wants war, then he should go all out. There’s no need to be a pussy and give all the people you dissed props when you meet them. Like what the fuck? There’s no hope for Hip Hop. When you dissed someone in the 90s and your crews confronted each other, if no one got shot or punched, at least some cuss words would’ve been exchanged, if not that, then make up and put the beef behind it. But there’s no fucking middle ground, KENDRICK.

      1. It Wasn’t A Diss Those People He Named Are At The Top Of There Game Their Lyrics Has Substance He Just Wants To Make It Harder Everybody Just Relaxing, The Industry NEEDED This Because Now A Days Anybody Can Be A Rapper Truthfully Just Look At Lil B, Chief Keef, Etc. Then People Want To Complain About It ” What The F*#@( Am I Listening To? ” When Everybody Is Allowing This Shit To Go Down Its Not About The Albums The Houses The Cars The Money Its About The Lyrics The Flow The Substance.

    21. TOP 5 WORST TROLLS ON HHDX

      1.the ja rule troll
      2.the gucci troll
      3.the drake troll
      4.the Anally Pussified Anon Guy (Anonymous & :^) who says “Everything You Say Is BULLSHIT LIES” and “Haha Good Joke”
      5.quote-man

      1. YESSSS! I have reached 3rd place. Here’s a little doiy for ya:

        Drake is soo hot right now, I wanna lick his butthole clean & do him in the bottox until he sings. I bet his weiner is glorious. I love Drake & I am super gay for him & his R&B tunes.

    22. Lol drake could have gone off on errybody but if he did he’d have to back it up with bars and he just don’t got them?

      At least kendricks shit is fire.

    23. wow where does ‘he’ even get off thinking thats a diss ? NO LIE straight up laughed at birdmans verse, thought it was like a subliminal joke or something .. bars from drizzy then jus

      ” showtime, headlines, big time, sunshine, tote nines
      bust mines, flatline, hard grind, high life ” xD

    24. Tupac is a fake. Always was. Always will be.

      The fake don’t last that’s why he got terminated on sight. He claimed a false ‘thug life’ and payed the price for it.

      Lil Wayne on the other hand is a true blood. All you haters that say he isn’t, okay let me ask you this. If he isn’t a true PIRU Blood then why haven’t real bloods confronted him about it?

      …EXACTLY!

      LA Bloods respect Wayne. He has the Triple OG status among the PIRU.

      KenDICK LAME-ar is from Compton yet he never banged and basically made a whole rap album of how he got bullied by real Compton niggas.

      He was a sissy & a wimp. Still is. Always will be.

      Hes rough in the booth but in real life nigga is softer than flan.

      Drake got goons. Wayne got blood niggas that would split a wig for him.

      Lil Wayne is and forever will remain the true KIGN of HIP HOP!

      “All you haters hold hands & jump off a building” – Lil Wayne

      YMCMB!

      1. You osund like a real lame. Anyone who says Tupac was fake is lost. Tupac is as real as the come. Wayne is as fake as they come. Wayne is not blood and never has. Baby is blood and they give Wayne love because of Baby. But Wayne and Drake softer than tissue paper. K Dot doesnt talking about being bullied by anyone, who speaks on not getting trapped in the gang culture just because he is from Compton , which is smart dumbass. Being in a gang doesnt make you smart it makes you a follow who cant stand on his own. young and ignorant you are!!!

      2. Your right! I’m just a dick loving queerboy looking for wieners to rub. I love eating buttholes & even will lick a doodie stick every now & then if it’s not too smelly.

    25. drake doesnt need to waste time with an irrelevent rapper like kendrick who is miles below him. Drake is in a league of his own kendrick is just another wanna be that wishes he could have half the sucess drake does. Drake runs this rap shit

      1. Drake sunds a loittle girlish to me. For him to speak on it more than once shows he felt some type of way about it. fo him to discredit him for not saying Fuck everybody shows he missed the meaning of what K Dot said. 2nd Drake is not touching K. dot when it comes to bars. Drake makes better radio cuts but if they were to go bar for bar Drake would not win that battle

    26. LA gang members both killed Pac AND Biggie for being fakes. Wayne goes to LA and parties with Term (a blood gang member)and a whole bunch of Blood gang members. Dont believe me? Look it up on YouTube!

      1. I seen video of Birdman and Weezy scared to get out of their trucks cause 40 glocc was outside waiting for them!!! 40 Glocc had them shook and he got beat up 1 handed by a male stripper!!!!

      2. Game is as fake as 40 Glocc! Wayne boasts about his Blood Gang ties since 500 Degreez and he hasnt been checked or murked because he is RESPECTED in the Blood Gang commmunity.

        2Pac hung around with hungry ass niggas that wanted a share of Pacs money. He had NO real friends

        Gang members killed his ass for being a faggot ass thug wannabe loud mouth.

        Burn In Hell Tupac Amaru Shakur

        Long Live Weezy!

      3. I want to finger my butthole & listen to Drake, he sings so good, he’s like the best singer ever. I jerk off to all of his DX pictures, he’s soo cute.

      4. Truth is Wayne is a midget and hes never put hands on anyone in all his years of rapping. He goes no where without a team of body guards

      5. Lil wayne is not hard. He’s been rich for most of his life. If you look at his first stuff he used to where a blue flag.

    27. “I seen video of Birdman and Weezy scared to get out of their trucks cause 40 glocc was outside waiting for them!!!”

      Don’t believe everything you see cause at no time in that video does it show Wayne or Birdman.

    28. Drake juss mad because he was on top of the mainstream rap game the past few years & somebody else taking his spot & Kendrick had the most talked about rap verse in history

    29. “Boy please Drake could never destroy Kendrick with anything as far as an rapping”

      Check the 1st week sales predictions for the new album. Drake just crushed this compton cupcake lol

      1. That has nothing to do with skills at all. That means a lot of teenagers are buying his shit. Drake is the real cupcake, not Kendrick.

      2. Record sales don’t mean shit, not a single fuck is given about record sales. Who in the fuck buys music anymore? I can’t tell you one person that I know who buys music. That is about tha lamest excuse someone can have when it comes to music, either your music is good or it is soft fagy singing that homos enjoy.

    30. Drake sounds hella insecure.. really going out of his way to downplay the most talked about verse of the year. The one thing Drake does not have is respect, K.Dot does because he makes real music and classic albums not pop tracks and throwaway club joints.

    31. drakes a bitch his 3rd album dont even compare to kendricks 1st and only album scratch that none of drakes albums compare to k dots debut album …. drake is an actor who sings and calls himself a real mc now he gettin all arrogant and talkin tough when he aint shit his demographic is all bunch of radio listenin bitches real lyrical motha fuckers dont respect him !!!!! FUCK THAT PUSSY ASS WANNABE

    32. “I can’t tell you one person that I know who buys music”

      All your friends steal music so they don’t count. Obviously, alot of people still buy albums if Drake is about to do $700,000, and numerous country/pop acts routinely do platinum plus.

    33. “I guess you think Justin Bieber’s the best because he sold a lot of records”

      Nobody’s ever called him the best, but selling a zillion records is a feat very few artists can say they did. Kendrick Lamar will never sell anything like that. His supporters think he’s the best cause hip hop is at an all time low right now. If Detox dropped, nobody would have even been talking about Good Kid. People were bored so they gave him a chance.

    34. Its funny everyone is dissing drake. Yea, Drake may be soft, but who really listens to rap anymore. Look at the charts it’s all pop, and house music. The real argument is why does Drake even care? Who makes more money? thats what its all about.

    35. Its obvious he isn’t talking about kendrick lamar. thats a huge fucking stretch.It doesn’t even make sense cause he helped to put him on, so why would he be asking who he is? Any journalist that thought this makes any sense needs to quit.

    Leave a Reply

    Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *