Kendrick Lamar Says He Has Nothing Against Drake

    Kendrick Lamar was recently asked if he was dissing Drake during his BET Hip Hop Awards cypher

    “I was having fun rapping,” Kendrick Lamar says in the interview with New York radio station Power 105.1. “We was just having fun. Hip Hop is a sport. People are gonna dissect lyrics and that’s what it’s about at the end of the day. I’ve got nothing against Drake. He put out a great album again. He’s doing his thing. He’s part of this new generation that’s doing this music.” 

    Kendrick Lamar was believed to have dissed Drake during his cypher

    “Nothing’s been the same since they dropped ‘Control’ / And tucked the sensitive rapper back in his pajama clothes,” Kendrick Lamar says in his cypher verse. “Ha-ha, jokes on you / High-five, I’m bullet proof / Your shits will never penetrate / Pin the tail on the donkey, boy, you’ve been a fake.”

    After “Control” was released, Drake responded to the song in an interview with Billboard

    “I didn’t really have anything to say about it,” Drake said. “It just sounded like an ambitious thought to me. 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.”

    Drake recently spoke about “Control,” saying that he lost respect for Kendrick Lamar’s sentiments on the verse

    “He didn’t come in there on some wild, ‘I’m in New York, fuck everybody,’” Drake said in September. “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. If it’s really ‘fuck everybody’ then it needs to be ‘fuck everybody.’ It can’t just be halfway.”

    The Power 105.1 interview was held during the station’s Powerhouse. At the event, Kendrick Lamar featured Lil’ Kim during his set. Lamar introduced her as an “influential” emcee in the industry. 

    More from the interview can be viewed below. 

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    207 thoughts on “Kendrick Lamar Says He Has Nothing Against Drake

      1. You’re into gay artists? That’s cool, Drake isn’t gay but it’s nice to know you like listening about taking it up the butt

    1. Drake is a talented artist, he gets a lot of flack for not being African-American and being Emo but he makes good music.

      Kendrick with his immigrant voice is the hipster fav of the month but they’ll have a new n**** next year.

      1. I don’t hate Kendrick, being hateful isn’t in my nature, I’m heterosexual and have color. I think Kendrick’s voice sounds like an immigrant or an alien, it just has a funny sound to it. Drake has a voice that’s easier on the ears and he can harmonize better. Kendrick is a black hippy.

      2. “Drake has a voice that’s easier on the ears and he can harmonize better.”

        So you like hearing homosexual voices singing about drunk texting other dudes’ girls and going through girls’ purses and phone?

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      1. Ur name ain’t this nigga. Kendrick is the top nigga but can’t rap better than OC fuck outta here with that shit.

    2. Dudes are so afraid of beef these days, that’s the problem with Hip-Hop these days everybody afraid to be anything but politically correct. Drake is cornball, wack-ass, wannabe rapper, faggoty R&B bitch lets call a spade a spade. Kendrick is the best emcee right now on the mainstream side of things everyone who hasn’t been in the game at least 10 plus years are miles beyond him. Kendrick should have just stood by his Control verse and followed it up by saying “Yea I’m the King right now, and ya’ll know it. Now come get me”.

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    4. Drake spits those hard bars. The kind of lyrics that make other niggas dicks and nipples hard. Drizzy be on that homo-erectus type shit that niggas can’t enough of. No other rapper spits that real hard shit. That’s what makes Drake’s music so addictive.

    5. all these rappers bitches, always sneak dissing, then play pussy when someone ask them who were they talkin about… I wish i had the talents they had, cause I’d never write a diss line and act like a bitch when asked who i was talkin too

      1. Well, he did drop it and basically backtrack. If you’re to write a diss track at least stand behind. It’s still not as bad as Jay Z being made to apologize by his Mom on the radio for dissing Nash but regardless still pussy.

      2. Really? Because I just remember after Control came out and Drake was on some butthurt shit for like 3 weeks in every interview, acting like no one was even talking about it, even though a few good emcees & half the no name ass rappers in NY responded.

    6. if anyone was feeling a kind of way it was Drake, not kdot

      but now that drake feels more secure, he might release his first great album, coz dude is still nowhere near the top 10 of this generation

    7. don’t know what happen but I hate them both, but if I had to make a choice, I’d chose kdot, at least he released a classic

    8. Kendrick is a decent emcee, but he doesn’t want to go to war with the original champagne papi. Drake is Al Green’s soulfulness fused with Biggie’s witty punchlines/crisp flow. Kendrick doesn’t bring that type of talent to the table. Kendrick is actually kind of scared. Kendrick knows that he owes much of his new found fame and riches to Drake.

    9. Kendrick knew dissing Drake would have dire consequences for the future, so he pulled a Lonny and made nice. Once again Drake wins without releasing a diss track. That’s a boss right there.

      1. Aint nothin boss about that. Its Puss! This is rap! This shit is based on battling! Drake knows that if he were to release a diss toward kendrick he would lose and it would effect his career in a negative way. That very pussy of drake. The only reason drake is where he is right now is bcuz of three reasons, 1, hes a light skinned half breed, 2; hes “white ppl friendly”, and 3; he sings and caters to the bitches. (and bitch ass niggas). tell me im lyin!

    10. Drake is the king of this shit. Kendrick is good but let’s be honest, good kid mad city was sorta boring. Drake got those singles for the clubs

    11. Drake is a insecure, feminized, pussy, with slightly above average rap skill. His head is blown up and he thinks hes better than what he really is. He aint fuckin with kendrick or any other real mc. Somebody need to knock his faggot ass down a couple….

    12. While Kendrick was at home fucking his guy sherane and acting like a pussy, Drake has gunned down numerous gangsters with rick ross. Hell Rick ross is no. 1 with royals.

      1. HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA

    13. Everybody, please ignore this faggot below me. Hes lonely and wants attention please dont give it to him. DONT FEED THE TROLLS!!!

    14. WHY IS EVERYONE SAYING CONTROL IS A DISS TRACK?? yall are some dumbasses if you think he was really trying to diss the same guys he was on the track with. he’s just having fun, trying to create some competition. all of you need to calm the fuck down. he’s not “making a diss track then backtracking”, none of that shit was a diss. i swear some of you are so fucking stupid

    15. I love drake but he ain’t seeing Kendrick as an mcee, and he doesn’t have 1 album that can fuck with s80 & gkmc

    16. he should have dissed drake, he is sitting on the only hip hop classic of this generation, he can do whatever he wants now

    17. “Drake knows that if he were to release a diss toward kendrick he would lose”

      You know whose losing in record sales? Kendrick.

      1. No drake beats out kendrick in lyricism. It shows in sales. Bieber is right there with drake as well. They are so much better than K Dot. Meanwhile, Rick Ross is on top with loyals.

      2. Nope. Kendrick beats Drake in lyricism and Bieber sucks; Kendrick’s better than those two pop stars. And Royals is Lorde’s song, so Ross ain’t on top of shit.

      3. No, drake breats out kendrick and bieber rules as well. Kendrick’s the only pop star here. Drake and bieber are R&B hiphop stars. And the remix is on top with rick ross so he’s on top of the game. Drake will have the best selling hiphop album this year, no matter what because eminem is pop.

      4. Nope. Kendrick beats both of those Canadian pop fags and is actually hip-hop. The Royals remix is not on top and neither is Ross. Eminem will have the best selling hip-hop album of 2013; Drake’s shit isn’t even hip-hop.

      5. No, drake and bieber beats kendrick out. They have top ten hits on their own and kendrick only had 1 entry with drake. The remix counts so everyone who does a remix gets benefitted. Drake’s album is R&B hiphop but eminem is pop with no hiphop.

        BTW, I’m not drake runs rap’s boyfriend.

      6. Nope. Kendrick beats those two faggot Canadians out, who have Top 10 hits because they have the same fanbase of teenage girls; Kendrick doesn’t need a Top 10 hit. The remix does not count at all. And you got it wrong, Drake’s album is R&B/pop while Eminem’s album is hip-hop.

      7. K Dot is struggling right now. He has no top ten hits on his own. Drake and Bieber have hits because of hiphop fans and girls, who are hiphop fans who listen to wayne, and rick ross as well. The remix of royals does count and drake is R&B/hiphop while eminem is pop. Hiphop is devrived from R&B so any R&B albums also count as hiphop.

      8. Kendrick ain’t struggling. He has a bunch of Top 40 hits, including a Top 20 hit. Bieber and Drake have hits because of pop fans and girls who don’t listen to rap and only listen to Katy Perry, One Direction, and other pop acts. The remix doesn’t count and Drake is pop/R&B while Eminem is hip-hop. R&B doesn’t count as hip-hop, it’s a separate genre.

      9. K Dot ain’t rich either. Drake has more money than K Dot. Bieber and Drake have hits because of girls, hiphop fans, and girls who have hiphop fans. Doesn’t matter who listens to what. At the end, they still fuck the maddest bitches on earth while you sit here hating on them. Also, remixes count and Drake makes terrific music while eminem makes terrible music. R&B and hiphop are closely related.

      10. Kendrick doesn’t need to have a lot of money, he’s a better MC. Again, Drake and Bieber are successful because of pop fans and teenage girls who hate hip-hop. And they don’t fuck mad bitches and I’m not hating on anyone, I’m calling a spade a spade. Remixes don’t count. You have it backwards; Eminem makes terrific music while Drake makes terrible music. And, no. Those two genres aren’t closely related.

      11. dentalboy, why are you defending Bieber? He’s a shitty teeny bopper artist making generic pop songs about love to girls under the age of 18. He’s the epitome of a manufactured pop product by the industry to sell records and make money.

      12. Kendrick’s isn’t a real MC. He’s a poser. Again, drake and bieber are hiphop artists that are successful because of girls everywhere. Again, u mad because they make far more money than you. Drake and Bieber will fuck the maddest bitch in the world while you stay mad because you can’t get a decent woman.

        BTW, SMDH, Bieber’s a terrific artist making R&B songs.

      13. Uh-uh. Kendrick is a real MC, Drake’s the real poser. Also, Drake and Bieber are pop artists who are successful because of teenage girls into pop music. I don’t care about their money and I already have a beautiful girl; those two fags ain’t fucking no mad bitch.

      14. Drake was gunning down gangsters as a kid with rick ross. They keep hiphop in the streets and have been respected in the hiphop community. Hell I can argue that Miley Cyrus with a big ass is more hiphop than kendrick. YOu must care about money if you stay hating on them. They make dope music. If you think you can do better, why can’t you?

      15. That is all a lie. Drake lives in the suburbs of Toronto and was on a popular TV show. He never lived the gangster life and neither did Ross, who grew up in the suburbs of Miami and had a regular job working as a CO. They’re making mainstream-friendly music that aren’t street at all and aren’t respected in the hip-hop community. Miley Cyrus is not hip-hop at all and she has a small, flat ass. I don’t care about their unlike your groupie ass and I’m not hating. Their music is trash, period.

      16. Yes drake had a tv show and ross worked as a co but rick ross found drake in the early 2000’s and they were shooting gangsters together during drake’s free time. They are making street music and music for the ladies. Miley has a big ass and you’re hating. What does groupie mean by the way? Their music is dope period.

      17. Another pile of shit lies you made up. They never met in teh early 2000s and they never shot anyone. They make commercial friendly music that appeals to the mainstream only. Miley has a small ass, are you blind? It looks like two pancakes. There’s MANY chicks with bigger, better asses. And, no, I’m not hating, you’re being a groupie (which is a stan/dickrider/obsessive fan). Their music sucks.

      18. Drake showed me pictures of “target practice” with rick ross using gangsters for “targets” Miley has a terrific ass and she twerks right in front of us. Name me better chicks that have better asses. Also, I’m no groupie. I’m just stating the fact that you’re broke and he makes more money than you. The music’s dope.

      19. A lie you made up. Mile has a terrible ass. You are a groupie, making up lies because your favorites make wack music. Oh, and to answer your question about females with better asses than Miley, there’s Halle Berry, Beyonce, Shakira, Jennifer Lopez, Jessica Simpson, Salma Hayek, Sofia Vergara, Christina Hendricks from Mad Men, Serena Williams, Paula Patton, Mariah Carey, Rihanna, Janet Jackson, Pam Grier back in the day, Pamela Anderson, Free from 106 and Park, Eva Mendes, etc. Don’t even get me started on the female porn stars; they have asses that’ll blow Miley’s flat ass away.

      20. It’s not bullshit, it’s fact. All of these chicks have bigger, better asses than Miley. You are a groupie, deny all you want. Nothing you say is fact.

      21. Already got laid many times (by women) and I still feel the same way. Drake’s music is shitty and no amount of sex will change that.

      22. you must have been laid by men because i took 10 men who hate ymcmb, subjected them to sex (by women), and they all love ymcmb now. A switch went off in their brain caused by overstimulation of the energy in the brain and now they love ymcmb.

    18. can you kendrick dickriders prove to me how kendrick is better than drake.
      sales = drake easily kendrick isnt even close
      hits = drake easily again kendrick is no where near drakes numbers
      tour sales = drake easily the only reason kendrick even got this popular is because drake put him on tour last year
      mass apeal = drake easily he has wayyy more fans than kendrick kendrick is absolute 0 compared to drake in popularity
      better flow = drake easily kendricks flow sounds bad while drakes is crisp
      better music = drake easily drake has far more hits and makes better music and doesnt need features to make hits
      overall sucess = drake easily kendrick isnt even half as sucessfull as drak

      KENDRICK IS ABOSOLUTE NOTHING COMPARED TO DRAKE DRAKE IS THE FACE OF RAP HE HAS THE HIGHEST SELLING ALBUM THIS YEAR HE RUNS THE RAP GAME HE IS ON ANOTHER LVL COMPARED TO ALL THE NEW GENERATION RAPPERS ITS A FACT NUMBERS PROVE IT. YOUR SHITTY NERD OPINIONS DONT MEAN SHIT WHEN NUMBERS DISPROVE THEM. BRING UP NUMBERS OR GO BACK TO SUCKING KENDRICKS DICK AND NOT ACCEPTING REALITY.

      1. Aside from sales, hits, mass appeal, and success, everything you say is a lie. Hop off his overrated dick.

      2. women lie men lie numbers don’t lie. Your opinions don’t mean shit i bring up numbers that can be argued as facts whereas your opinions are nothing but you nerdy dickriding biased opinions. I am sorry if the facts hurt but they are facts and they produce the truth.

      3. What facts? It’s just you being a dickrider. Sales doesn’t make you the best, quality music does and Kendrick has better music than Drake. BTW, Drake sells because he has the same fanbase as Bieber and One Direction.

      4. just posting the truth here you hiphop nerd virgins have a hard time accepting the truth thats why you hopeless virgins beat off to your imaginary fantasies

      1. I SAID KILL YOURSELF BITCH!!! I NEVER HAD DICK AND NEITHER DID YOU!! CAUSE NO ONE EVER PAYS ATTENTION TO YOU!!

      2. I HAVE NO BIPOLAR DISEASE AND DICK DOESNT CHANGE ANYTHING!! ONLY PUSSY WILL!! BUT SINCE NO ONE GIVES A FUCK ABOUT YOU, KILL YOURSELF BEFORE OTHERS WILL!!

        AND WHAT KIND OF WACK ASS NAME IS GERALD!!

      1. Because it’s a bunch of made up bullshit that’s impossible in real life that only exists in the world of cartoons.

      2. I took 10 men who hate ymcmb, women fucked them, and now they love ymcmb. What’s wrong with opinions changing?

      3. It’s a lie you made up. I’m not hating, bitch, and I already got laid. My music opinions have always been the same after being with a chick.

      4. You mean you got laid by men? Cause that’s not going to change your opinion. Only fucking females will. It’s no lie.

      5. No. I got laid by females. I’m not into gay shit that you like. No sex is gonna change people’s opinions at all. You’re a pathological liar.

      6. Oh you mean the gay guy gerald? I never had sex with him. I only get laid by females. BTW, you have to get laid by natural born females and not transvites in order for it to work.

      7. No one believes you. Go fuck Gerald. Again,.sex won’t change your mind, no matter what. Life doesn’t work like that, dentalbitch.

      1. Funny because last time I heard, Dr Dre signed Kendrick to his label and executive-produced his album, not Drake.

    19. GEARLD IS THE DEFINITION OF A FAGGOT!! I DONT CARE IF HES GAY BUT HE WANTS TO DRAG ME INTO HIS GAY SEXUAL FANTASIES!! GERALD IS A LOSER AND SHOULD KILL HIMSELF FOR ALL THE BULLSHIT HE SAID!!

    20. I was a drake fan until I heard gkmc, DAMN it changed my mind, I know understand why drake isn’t taken seriously in hip hop

    21. drake sucks in every aspect of rap:

      Bad lyrics
      bad flow
      trash albums
      bad imagery
      bad at painting pictures
      bad at everything

    22. if they had to beef, I’d definitely support kendrick based on the fact that he released a classic album, drake still trying to understand how to structure a song

      1. good joke kendrick sounds like a rat and drake makes big hits that appeals to the masses he just can’t appeal to virgin nerds like yourself.

    23. it’s crazy how drake can’t enter i nthe classic debates with his albums, it’s probably a proof that he is trash

    24. YOU CAN CURE ME OF MY ANGER BY KILLING YOURSELF!!! OR AT LEAST STOP LYING AND GET A LIFE!! GERALD IS A FUCKING LOSER AND MORON!!

    25. Gerald’s finally got the message that he’s a psychpath and is probably crying at the mental hospital.

    26. HHDX love recycling Kendricks Control verse, Drakes response and then regurgitating comments from every unknown rapper on the issue, like they trying to start beef and bad feeling. Poor, lazy journalism. This story is old news, move on

      1. shit i’m a fan but i might struggle to name 10 of his songs. i usually just play the music and dont really wory about titles and song names

      2. true man, was a fan since ’10 or ’09 got everything he dropped and since he blew up, just to many dickriders, but still i’m happy that he’s poppin you know, good music needs to be out there and he makes DOPE SHIT!

    27. kendrick is already sitting on a classic, he shouldn’t talk to his faggot drake who hasn’t released anything great yet

      1. Yo im sayin drake has lost his mind thinkin that control verse was a negative thing but when you talkin’ classic this nigga on his 3rd THIRD! album and it’s all gone platinum, like if you aint thinkin that nigga aint puttin out classics you fukd in the head ma nigga for real. Kendrick Leggit but drake change things too and he spit too so they both great in they own ways. an that truth.

    28. I was a drake fan until I heard kendrick’s albums, it changed my mind and I realized that kendrick was for hip hop, drake was for rnb

    29. drakes a fool, the verse waden’t bout fuck everybody, he jsut states that hte industry is doin better now cause of all them and that they should keep their foot on the pedal and go hard on eery fucking song they do, that’s all

    30. Drake you know good and well about jack shit. Kendrick would body your ass, and I don’t even like Kendrick like that.

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