Kendrick Lamar’s GQ cover story features Lamar discussing his relationship with Drake following the release of Lamar’s “Control” verse.
“On the night of the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards, just as the heat over ‘Control’ was peaking, I tailed Kendrick through the backstage maze at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center,” GQ’s Steve Marsh writes. “At one point, he ran into Drake, and they wrapped each other up in a big hug. It was their first encounter since Kendrick called him out on ‘Control,’ and of all the slaps in that verse, this one felt the most personal, because Drake had helped break Kendrick, handing the kid not just a verse but an entire song on his second album. After Drake’s VMA performance of ‘Hold On, We’re Going Home,’ Kendrick made his way back to the greenroom, crooning the hook: I got my eyes on you…. He caught mine and smiled. ‘You watch,’ he joked, ‘I’m going to be singing by my fifth album.’..I asked if this meant things were cool between him and Drake. He paused. ‘Pretty cool.’ Shrugs. ‘And I mean, I would be okay if we weren’t.'”
The article also discusses Lamar’s take regarding Drake’s perception of “Control.”
“I got Kendrick on the phone after the BET taping, and he admitted to being surprised by Drizzy’s public lash-out,” the author writes. “‘Control’ named names, sure, but at its core it was a backhanded tribute to the peers Kendrick actually gives a shit about. Most of them took it in that spirit. Not Drake. ‘Yeah, I guess he took it as a dis,’ Kendrick said, downplaying talk of a beef. But he was also clear that he doesn’t look up to Drake, doesn’t see him as any kind of creative influence. When I asked if Drake was a mentor or a role model, he replied quickly, ‘No—peer. If anything. We all peers.'”
Kendrick Lamar Discusses Dealing With Death Of A Friend
During the article, Lamar also speaks about the death of his friend Chad Keaton, a 23-year-old who was shot and killed in a drive-by near Kendrick’s childhood home recently. Lamar speaks of dealing with a friend’s death while managing a Rap career.
“It can be complicated and confusing,” Kendrick Lamar said. “From my perspective, it’s not just I’m famous. I still live in this world…I still gotta get that phone call.”
In September, Lamar posted a Twitter message and picture about Keaton’s death.
You gotta love HHDX’s misleading titles on their articles.
Ungrateful bucktooth chipmunk looking nigga.
Karma’s a bitch Kendrick, you’ll get yours.
OVO runs this rap shit!
He doesnt look like a chipmunk, bitch! He looks like a rat.
Everything you say, Drake stan, is a lie.
I lost all respect for drake, kendrick is definitely the new king
still waiting for drake to release a calssic, at least kendrick has 2 mdoern day classics
So Far Gone, Take Care and NWTS ARE ALL CLASSIC! Soo are Comeback Season and Room For Improvement.
If MMLP and Eminem Show are considered classics than so are those albums. I mean they do have higher ratings on metacritic than Ems so called classic albums! On avg. music critics believe that Drake is the better artist!
Keep hating on Drake, he’ll just keep on winning awards for his superior music and song writing!
OVO is the modern day Motown! Drake and 40 are the modern day Premier and Guru!!
OVO is the modern day motown? drake and 40 premier and guru?? wtf. you must think bieber is the new eminem. crazy
it’s true, drake doesn’t havea single classic
did this fool just compare drake and 40 go gang starr? LOLOLOL
Champagne Papi Life, everything you say is a lie.
eminem has 2-3 classics. kdot has 1. drake has 0
another proof that drake is a fraud
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CoS5MrRGO4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfHv0K3xAW8
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poor drake, too bad he hasn’t dropped a single great album in his career, thats why kednrick is now widely considered as the king
Kendrick isn’t on drakes level yet…albums sales ect.
Drake ain’t on Kendrick’s level yet… album quality, etc.
not a big fan of kdot, but he has the great catalog, can’t be mad at his acclaim
kdot reminds me of Pac a lot
kendrick shouldn’t mention inferior artists like drake
It takes a real MC to expose phony “rappers” like Drake.
Kdot is right not to bow down, these cats same era cats, how would he look talking about a young dude is his mentor, that’s just insane. he respects drake no doubt as he should, regardless of the haters Drake dope as fuck. Kdot about to leave a trail of hit tracks over the next 10yrs, he’s only 2 in back of Drake so both can’t slack one minute.
Valid point.
who the fuck would look up to Drake.. unless you a canadian or a jew
lots of people look up to a young dude whos getting money and on top of the world
i bet you’d kill to live his life for one weekend
says the white boy who works at 711…
hey i know lots of jewish canadians who hate him to
That hoe mentality LIKE ANON 1 is showing is the reason why hip hop is in the state its in. Its the fucking fans obsessing with the artists and dickriding.
says a a fucking Ja Rule Troll.. lol nigga you obsessing over an artist who hasnt had a career in 10 years!! LOL
they just trying to get kdot and drake to beef….they ain’t gonna..they too smart
You fools love to talk about beef? Nobody said anything about beef. This is a battle and it should happen as they are the two biggest names in the game right now. Why does this generation bitch up every time somebody gets dissed? That’s just hip-hop.
they are peers and theres nothing wrong with that..and both of them are good at their craft…and they shouldnt engage in any type of beef to satisfy these lame n1gg@s that hate seeing ppl they dont like succeed.
Battling and competition is a big part of hip-hop. The game needs a good battle right now. Also, people aren’t “haters” just because they are critical and have higher standards for the music they listen to.
I dont see Drake as helping break Kendrick at all. Kendrick already was solidified way before Drake
true. Drake jumped on the bandwagon after everyone already knew K.Dot was up next. Kendrick aint need Drake lil girl fans
I understand you Drake haters have a deep uncontrollable urge to talk smack. But pls get the f**k outta here” with that Drake didn’t do sh*t BS. Section 80 had a buzz but it wasn’t even a “50 cent/ mixtape/Drake mixtape” type buzz. It was a small buzz. Without the Club Paradise Tour, the feature on Take Care, “Poetic Justice” and “F**kin Problems” (a track Drake produced also) Kendrick wouldn’t have half of his top 10 singles. Get real people. You Drake haters are delusional. You need to start a club. Call it benchwarmers.
I don’t even hate Drake but Kendrick already had a huge buzz at that point. If anything it was Dre’s co-sign that helped Kdot the most.
@For real yo?
Everything you say is a lie.
Kendrick is ass and GKMC is the most overrated album of all time
You misspelled Drake and Take Care.
Y’all niggas buggin. Whoever says Kendrick was established before his verse on take care is stupid. Kendrick had flop singles before the take care verse. Mainstream America got its first taste of Kendrick on take care. Drake put Kendrick on, and it’s not even debatable.
You don’t know what you’re talking about. He was already established and just about to break mainstream. That’s precisely why Drake featured him on the album.
LOL my friend went to a Drake concert like 3 years ago and said he barely remembers that Kendrick performed and that nobody cared, no one really cheered/applauded him and also next day after school everyone was talkin bout it, no one mentioned Kendrick. Now two years later GKMC drops with dre’s help and Swimming Pools comes out, and bam everybody talkin bout Kendrick.
lol gkmc went platrinum before control, it was praised as a classic before control, his biggest hits are solo hits, he was on every “best albums of all time” list from respectable magazine before control, and he was praised as the best before control
it had shipped plat before control and would have went plat anyway but it was a week or two after control that he officially cross a million sales
drakes all sensitive and broken up inside bec he knows kendrick would destroy him.. all drake talks about is how hes better than people and can outrap anyone..then kendrick drops control and now drakes all humble hahah
its bec he knows he would get destroyed into irrevelancy.
Unless they battle, your fantasy holds no weight. For now Drake has the hits, money, and higher selling albums. Drake 100 Kendrick 2.
Hits, money, and sales don’t mean shit in actual hip-hop, fuckboy. It’s all about the skills. So Kendrick 2, Drake 0.
If he can make a top 10 single without a Drake feature. Good luck kdot
I don’t think Drake “lashed out” at all. All he really said in response was that he felt “Control” was nothing special – and I hate to break all of your hearts, but, it wasn’t.
If it wasn’t special then why did everyone go bananas?
Greatest Emcee/Producer Duos EVER
1. Drake & 40
2. Guru & DJ Premier
3. Slug & Ant
4. Eric B & Rakim
5. Kool G Rap & DJ Polo
I you kidding me dude!? lol Worst list ever!
1. Jay-Z & Kanye West
2. Jay-Z & No ID
3. Jay-Z & Timbaland
4. Eminem & Dr. Dre
5. Snoop Dogg & Dr. Dre
Let me be more specific for the slow kids…by duos the producer has to produce the bulk of at least one entire album for that artist. Thus only Jay-Z and Kanye West or Snoop and Dre count. I didn’t include ANY producers who also rap on purpose.
you’re still a faggot and no one takes you serious with that name you groupie bitch
i find it hard to believe that anyone who ever heard a gang starr album, or doggystle, etc would put “drake and 40” at the top of any list
Drake should learn from kendrick, kdot is the one who released a classic for this generation
not a big fan of kdot but it might change, gkmc is the best album I have heard in YEARS.
Kendrick reminds me of Nas and Pac a lot
kendrick makes drake look like an amateur
kendrick will become a legend, he already has the classic album.
so, kendrick is the only artist of the new generation with a classic ? damn hip hop sucks right now, we only have kendrick…
Drake was clearly an idiot for this one, but I won’t say anything, I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt but he has to release a great album first coz kendrick is already sitting oon 2 masterpieces.
I was a drake fan until I heard gkmc, now< I know what a real classic sound like. #team Kendrick
Kendrick has always been the leader of the new school, he dropped rap album of the year 2 years in a row in 2011 and 2012 tbh
where should I start with him ? I heard good kid maad city this morning and I can’t lie, this shit is a masterpiece, but where should I start with his old stuff ?
mixtapes first
listen to the kendrick lamar EP and overly dedicated first. then go to section 80
you will not be disappointed
also listen to “skill still appeal” by him thats a great song lyrically and its entertaining to listen to.
I wonder if gkmc will be topped any time soon…
like busta rhymes said, his contribution to hip hop is official, he has the classic album, he has the skill, the lyrics, he has everything.
I wish you the best kendrick, you deserve it.
Busta also says look out for my new album. It’s gonna be a classic. Do you believe that too? lol
hip hop is in good hands with him.
GKMC, quickly becoming the most overrated album of all time!
not even the most overrated hip-hop album
maybe on the internet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg_PnthXV64
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drake is a over sensitive weak pussy….nuff said
“But he was also clear that he doesn’t look up to Drake, doesn’t see him as any kind of creative influence. ”
got a swimming pool fuul of liquor and im diiiiiiivvvving in it.. hmnn… t-minus.. drakes producer.. sounding just like a drake song.. hmnnn
what happened to all the real niggas in hip hop? everyone nowadays sucks.
what makes a real nigga?
shooting his people? selling drugs to his community? tricking on hoes?
how about just not being corny. many great rappers dont do the shit you mentioned so shut hte fuck up bitch before i put you in the grave.
yall niggas is lame. Kendrick is realer than most of these studio gangsters spitting cocaine kingpin fairy tales when they never seen a brick in their life
Swimming Pools sounds nothing like anything Drake has done. And T-Minus worked with a lot of artists.
drake better than kendrick but they both suck
No.. just no