Rapsody and Kendrick Lamar go way back, and though they don’t touch base all that often, K. Dot made sure to tap in recently to praise Rap’s latest album, Please Don’t Cry.
Talking to Acton Entertainment following her set at the Jazz Cafe Festival in London earlier this month, Rap reflected on her relationship with the Compton rapper and attending his historic Juneteenth Pop Out show this past summer.
AD LOADING...
“I spoke to him maybe a week after the concert and a week before,” she said. “I hadn’t spoken to Kendrick in maybe a year and a half and he texted me out the blue and he had listened to the album and he was like, ‘Album is crazyyy!’
“We were just catching up. That’s our relationship, we always in and out. But he’s a beautiful human being too — raw, authentic, real, loving and I’m super proud of everything that he’s doing. He’s a great leader. He’s wearing it and walking it beautifully.”
AD LOADING...
She continued: “He’s a real one. He stays tapped in to everything. He can be as quiet as he wants but I for sure know that he listens and watches everything. But again, I’m grateful and I appreciate him for just reaching out and saying it. But he’s always been that. Kendrick is as real as they come. That’s all I know.”
The conversation begins at the 7:30 mark below.
Released in May, Rapsody’s fourth studio album Please Don’t Cry featured the likes of Lil Wayne, Erykah Badu, Hit-Boy, Baby Tate and Alex Isley, among others, across 22 songs.
The LP serves as the follow-up to Eve which arrived back in the summer of 2019 and paid tribute to her heroes like Lauryn Hill, Nina Simone and Michelle Obama.
Earlier this year, the North Carolina native shared her thoughts on her appearance on the classic Kendrick Lamar album, To Pimp a Butterfly, while reluctantly weighing in on the brief battle between the Compton native and J. Cole.
“I try not to speak on these things – the whole thoughts, myself, I mean,” she said on The Bootleg Kev Podcast. “But, eh. He’s a man. He made his decision. But if I’m just speaking from me? If I’m in that position? I love this — the spirit of what this is, the sport of what this is.”
AD LOADING...
She added: “When Cole made his apology, and when he did it, I was like, ‘I would never approach it, going at his discography.’ But the art of war is just…war is war.”
