Joey Bada$$ has responded to Kendrick Lamar’s verse on Big Sean’s “Control” with his latest effort, “Killuminati Pt. 2.”
“Please don’t leave your comment if you are not up to par,” Bada$$ says on the song. “No names, putting you in a verse, that’s too far / You’re mundane, can’t obtain, the knowledge of my brain / My set told me light you up, so this that propane / It’s nathan, all I gotta do is just spit a flame / No escaping, you in a swimming pool of champagne / You set yourself up for that one, man / The King of New York? / Ha. We ain’t just gon’ let that one hang / Last nigga got dethroned and you ain’t from my zone / The rest of the real niggas is dead and gone.”
Joey also takes shots at Lamar’s “King of New York” line in the second verse of “Killuminati Pt. 2.”
“I got all these Rap niggas fuckin’ fearing me,” Bada$$ says. “Heard they was looking for war, but ain’t declaring me / I’m well aware, N.Y. not Delaware / I’m the real king fella here / You more like ‘Prince of Bel-Air’ / I’m clearing the air, might fire at will / These Rap niggas don’t want the static for real / ‘Cause they lines not adjacent to my spectacular skill / If you don’t fuck with cinematic, stand still / My life’s a movie on the real / You can get shot with your hands on the wheel / With your pants at your heels.”
In the final line quoted above, Bada$$ appears to make a slight reference to ScHoolboy Q’s “Hands on the Wheel” single. In 2012, ScHoolboy Q, a fellow member of Kendrick Lamar’s Top Dawg Entertainment camp, released “Hands on the Wheel,” a selection that features A$AP Rocky. The song was released on Q’s Habits & Contradictions project.
Bada$$’ “Killuminati Pt. 2” features an excerpt from a recent interview he did along with Black Moon’s Buckshot for MTV. In the interview, Buckshot said Kendrick Lamar had to “deal with” Joey after K. Dot claimed to be the “King of New York” on “Control.”
“All respect due to Kendrick Lamar, King of the West Coast, King of New York, whatever is the stuff that’s going on right now,” Buckshot said during the interview. “I love the competition, but Kendrick Lamar go against the Beast Coast? Whoo. I’m just an OG here, loving the fact that I retired that level of it and now you have to deal with a brother like Joey, which is a .45 magnum with a knife at the tip and a shotgun at the enemy.”
That interview can be seen below.
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When “Control” was released, Bada$$ didn’t say he was upset with Lamar. Instead, he praised the release via Twitter.
The song can be heard on HipHopDX and it can be streamed below.
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Uh oh here come the Kendrick stans lol
badass murdered kendrick
This is okay. But at the age of 18 this guy has the potential to be a legend!
why he puttin that grunge in his voice?? especially on a laid back track like this.
didnt kendrick do the same thing on control?
@ anon
ummm, yeh. But kendrick always put that grunge in his voice when he raps, and two, control was a more aggressive song so its appropriate to spit more aggressively.
This beat is on some kick back relax type shit so to try to sound aggressive on this track jus sounds outta place.
wasnt he just praising kendrick for the verse the other day and now hes dissing him… i dont undertand.
i dont undertand you either
this is bad lol
no you just dont know rap
3 weeks for that ? lol
I don’t like kendrick but he could do way better than that at his worst day
I have lost faith in new york rappers… that kid is average as fuck
then you dont listen to a lot of Joey Bada$$ do you
your REALLY sad
This nigga got the face of a 50 year old crackhead
So your father?
Joey you embarrassed yourself with this one man…It took you a few weeks to write this average response. C’MON SON – ED LOVER
how did he embarrass himself the beat to this was way to laid back it was just part of the song his whole song wasnt mainly on kendrick.
New York MCs are really angry, but can’t seem to muster any legitimate rebuttals….NY has officially fallin all the way the fuck off…….everything comes in cycles tho……
NY radio don’t support NY artists anymore, that’s why the real emcees out here aren’t being heard. You gotta be Jay-Z, other than that, nobody from NY is gettin spins. Fab maybe, and that’s only because he a r&b rapper.
French and Asap get spins.
yea but they dont really rep that real NY hip hop
I like the black moon reference
WELL LISTEN KENDRICK ALD JOEY BADASS ARE 2 AVERAGE RAP YOUNGSTERS THAT ARENT NEAR DOPE OR LEGENDS OR EVEN NEAR (REVIVING HIP HOP),SO GET YOU’RE HEADS OUT OF YOU’RE ASSES AS SOON AS POSSIBLE,NAS WAS ABOUT 20 YEARS OLD WHEN HE DROPPED ILLMATIC,AND JOEY IS 18 AND KENDRICK I THINK 26 AND THEY NEVER EVEN DROPPED A MIND BLOWING TRACK LIKE NY STATE OF MIND SO WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT THAT THEY ARE BRINGING HIP HOP BACK?THEY NEVER DID ANYTHING SPECIAL!!YOU FUCKING BITCHES ACT LIKE THEY ARE SUPER LYRICAL LIKE BIG PUN AND RAKIM,I GUESS YOU DONT KNOW THEM(BIG PUN AND RAKIM) IN ORDER TO EVEN CALL JOEY AND KENDRICK LYRICAL
what are you talking about? good kid m.a.a.d city went platinum and rakim and big pun are not the only one we got big L, 2pac, B.I.G, krs one, etc their are many your to stuck in the past i love old school but you cant just diss kendrick and joey like that their to talented.
Lol this shit funnier than gettin tickled with 30 chicken feathers. C’mon man, his homies gotta be ashamed of this shit. Shit is the worse diss, and it took damn near a month lol. Kendrick a fag but this shit laughable.
Im done…no more responses…it was fun…but now its embarassing.
took a month? pretty sure control came out on the 13th. and how is kendrick a fag? lol
at least he tried
Has NY fallen off? And if so who is to blame?
Puff Daddy- he destroyed NY with the shiny suits some time ago… NY has been on a downfall ever since, lol..
DIDDY IS A LEGEND, HE MADE BIG FAMOUS!
My response was 100xxx better….
lets play a hunger game, which lame wan run with flames?…we can do a raffle, I lottery off rappers…pull name who ever applicable, while im sittin in the rafters, rifle aim at u bastards, im sendinf real friends ro caspers…pinicchio makin death wishes, so he wont get left nigga…ya bars ah waste..ya best is at my belt nigha….my bars whoop ass lik ya grandma belt nigga….my flow extension cord, i power through all of u, cut thru u warm hearted, diamond on clubbin artist, dnt gamble, im playn gambit with these spades ion follow suit…
http://soundcloud.com/tuttuteasyze/were-going-home-kendrick-lamar
mother fucker that was terrible. I mean straight up laughable. dont ever post that shit in public again.
I’m from NY and this nigga isa garbage… I’m sorry! He’s not blowing outside of the city… He is not lyrical. If you think he is you obviously have a peanut brain and you’re in special ed!
How do you spell garbage in New York? I wanna root for this kid because he ‘represents” traditional NYC hip hop BUT… this motherfucker is trash! This is whacker than his Lil’B response, NYC should quit responding to Kendrick… The point has already been made… Right now, New York aight poppin, emcees included!!!
nyc ain’t popping? sure you’re right
mtv awards were in bklyn, ny. events were popping all weekend
summer shows in the parks, nokia theater shows, bb kings shows, s.o.b. shows, webster hall shows, url shows, hammerstein ballroom shows, pier shows, central park shows, rucker park, harlem week just passed
west indian day parade coming up
you can’t be from nyc, if you are you know there’s plenty popping off to be worried about what you saying & know all the b-list rappers are doing is speaking up for their hometown
joey badass can you rap how you did on 1999. thanks.
when the verse came out he couldnt get kendricks dick out of his mouth and now 3 weeks later he disses him.. lol kendick probably denied him a verse and he got mad.
Son shoulda spit better than that. this coming from a Bada$$ fan. cmon.
Smdh, this shit here is trash!
New York outta shoot this crack head
for even puttin this shit out.
If anyone thinks NY is dead ill give you just 1 artist to change your mind.
Skyzoo.
Check out the great debater mixtape.
cosign
what are all of you talking about joey and kendrick practically talk about the same thing except joey is east coast and kendrick is west coast. i feel like everyone wants to start a biggie tupac fued again.
Check out my “Control” (Kendrick Lamar Response)
>> http://www.reverbnation.com/Rell806/song/18394355
This shit is terrible… he sounded good at 16 cause not many 16 yr olds could rap like that, but now he’s regressed.
just like everybody else who was fire at first but now seems like they fell off a lil. I think its the music we are listing too its no longer pushing us but making us downgrade because no one wants to hear to good shit just the stuff thats going to make money.
“Has NY fallen off? And if so who is to blame?”
^ check it out……….
Understand that when you say NY and Hip Hop, you’re addressing a mass that consists of the old school and new school and best believe one knows what the other has done/is doing. NYC is the Mecca, those meetings that happen for others in different regions, happen in NYC.
The whole world filled with music fans just doesn’t abide by the status quo of who media is focusing on. When y’all say fall off, it’s when you don’t see the press or hear the radio love anymore. Y’all just don’t understand that when you speak on who’s relevant or not, what you truly are saying is that you are a follower. And big business loves your naivety.
NYC’s version of HIP HOP will never fall off, it just won’t be accepted as popular/relevant/hot/happening. No fault of them, but a reasoning behind the actual current fan’s mentality. Although ‘Albert Einstein’ is a solid Hip Hop album, it’s just not in the eyes of you internet readers and on Clear Channel’s radio station radar. Roc Marciano’s ‘Reloaded’ is Hip Hop, just not on your radar. No radio friendly, club bopping, shake your ass to music, just an introspective from brothers with ill lyricism that will bop your head.
Al The Chemist, is one of NYC’s Hip Hop producers to go to, and is Eminem’s DJ. Eminem spends many of his days rocking out to Alchemist music and many of his millions of fans don’t know who Alchemist is. I’ve never forgot Alc was in the vehicle when Prodigy caught the gun charge the same day and party Wayne caught his charge.
How can you really talk Hip Hop to an audience that just may have their mp3 player full of what only hiphopdx posts on though, this is the real question.
word
Joey Sadass
if you didnt respond in 24hrs its no point anybody else that drops something should be slapped three weeks for this weak ass shit come on and this is who is suppose to hold ny down really yall in trouble id rather hear a french montana reply lol
rrrr
If anyone is king of new york at the moment it’s Joey imo. I mean he’s so young and doesn’t have the body of work behind him to really be “king”. But just in terms of quality of work being put out right now, he’s a step ahead of everyone else i’ve heard
really ???? Never heard of this guy in my life till this Kendrick “control” record!!
Never heard of this man either… *shrug*
HIP!!!MOC!! HIP!! MOC!! HIP!! MOC!! DAH BOMB!!! BOMB!!! MOC!!! MOC!!! K.LAMAR [,’;V”,ERSE}
this song sucks, what the fuck
this biggest name in hiphop in from ny…jayz
the best critically acclaimed album last yr was by an ny dude…nas
the last rapper to go diamond,was from ny…50cent
the biggest female name in hiphop is from ny…niki minaj
french was on every single last yr,asap and joey are up and coming young niggas! some of it’s wack,but ny is still live!
horrible flow sryazz beat
https://soundcloud.com/born-4/follow-the-bullet
Yikes!!! Who the fuck is this?? If this is the state of
New York it ova. He shoulda kept this shit on da block
between him and the crew. FOH…shit sucks and he looks
dirty as fucc. Nigga need a bath and a tooth brush!!!
The only nigga that needs a bath and a tooth brush is yo mama FOH faggot
This is hot.
he sound like taken a huge crap!! and want come down.
No disrespect but black folks dont know SHT called LOGIC. Listen, if NO ONE (including you) wanna FESS UP and TELL then how the fck are the police supposed to know anything and how the f*ck are you or anybody else gonna cry about justice?
Nggas talk all that snitch stuff when its another statistic but when its their family member or their man they wanna cry justice. Look, nggas in LA KNOW Orlando anderson killed 2pac but no one wanna fess up cuz theyll get labelled a snitch. Instead they rather go at Funk Flex or Suge Knight and use them as scape goats and act tough with them on the Internet or via records.
How is the police gonna lock any of these criminals up if nobody is fessin up? And then when the feds DO lock n*ggas up y’all cry the police is lockin’ brothas/rappers up. I feel sorry for african americans, y’all have the most fukd up mentality out in the world, but yet still think its worse overseas LMAO. I live in both places btw and yes im black!
?are you on the right blog bro ? respect doh
LMAO random AF
Decent, not to good. Thats how it always seem like on Joeys disses.
I think he should came a little harder on a better more fast pace beat. This shit was a lil soft.
Why is Joey using that voice? I guess it does it so he would sound angry but he looks like stupid.
He’s young but he doesn’t have a kids voice so I don’t see the need of using that kind of voice he’s using lately.
MAYBE HE FINALLY HIT PUBERTY
because it sound fucking dope and fresh… are you an idiot?
I am from the west but love New York Hip Hop. Honestly though, I think everyone bitching and crying about the whole Kendrick “king of Ny” seriously needs to get the fuck over it already! If you were offended by it, than obviously your one of the many artist not doing anything relevant for New York hip hop at the moment! Kendrick quotes a line from an old Kurrupt song saying ” I am the king of NY” and people getting all offended. I did not hear any diss records drop when Lil Wayne straight up said he did not like “New York”! That’s way more disrespectful and you guys let that shit slide!!!
Actually, one rapper responded to that lil wayne comment and it was pretty weak. Is it just me or do a lot of irrelevant, lesser known rappers respond to comments regarding the state of NY?
https://hiphopdx.com/index/singles/id.21704/title.donny-goines-fck-lil-wayne-flat-out-i-dont-like-you
Kendrick is a smarter dude than alot of the rappers today. Have you looked at the award shows lately other than BET’s award show? Have you read the comments of other rappers or even watch Kanye West rants over the past few years. I can’t speak on it as verbal. We all have to thank HipHop, it’s brought us veterans with unmastered talent.
when kendrick said new cats dont respond the first person i thought of was joey badass
he shouldnt of got involved
i hope this new rap game is dope
rappers just need to try harder … or put im the studio as executive listener , ill tell them if it wahck or not
Soul Temple is a scam.
Kendrick has still owned everyone. like, did you hear it? haha it was on fire. And his king of new york was just an extreme statement, most likely not to take too seriously..for instance..muslim on pork..rappers are too sensitive
shit was boring.
weak response.
Personally I think that Joey is this generation’s Nas
Joey is the truth! I believe this cat will be standing near the top when it’s all said in done imo, BUT!!! don’t bark up that tree Joey it will fall on you.
I really like Joey and I think he’s one of the best around these days, but: first, he made up a mess out of nothing, said Kendrick didn’t say anything that made him deserve a diss and second, K. Dot is a fucking genius, he IS the king, the best rapper alive with Nas and Joey can’t even be compared to him
Are you fucking stupid? Kendrick is no where near Nas. Nas is widely considered to be the best rapper ever. Do some fucking research before typing shit you have no clue on dumb bitch