Drake and Kendrick Lamars Rap BEEF Hip Hop Stars Weigh In
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00:00Kendrick Lamar or Drake, who you got?
00:02Kendrick Lamar.
00:04Gotta go with Kendrick.
00:13Oh man, you know I gotta go with the OVO6 guy, man.
00:16Drake's your guy.
00:17Yeah, that's my brother, man.
00:23I'm saying Kendrick because I'm from California.
00:25Actually, both. Kendrick.
00:27Love Drake, but, you know, at the end of the day, if Kendrick mad at him, I gotta roll with my family.
00:35I'm team Kendrick.
00:37Team Kendrick, definitely.
00:38Why?
00:39I'm sorry, but...
00:40Dad's like, shots fired!
00:41I'm sorry, but Kendrick won the diss. He won the diss, yeah.
00:57Just acting like an activist is make-believe. Don't even go back to your hood and plant no money trees.
01:02Just from a hip-hop perspective, what do you think that beef did? What kind of an impact did it make on hip-hop?
01:07I think it just brought, you know, it brought life back to hip-hop.
01:10I think hip-hop was like people were saying that hip-hop was dying, and it was a dying genre at the time.
01:15And I think it just put a lot of life back into it.
01:17Honestly, I love the feud, man.
01:19Because you can't have one body, like...
01:22You can't have anybody at the top without any type of s*** like this.
01:25So I love that this is actually happening, and that people are finally not scared,
01:31especially even at the top of the rap game, to come at each other, you know?
01:34The impact, I don't know. It's an indescribable feeling.
01:38Tell me about getting that call from Kendrick Lamar, saying,
01:40I'm inspired, I'm in the middle of this beef, we gotta get in the studio together.
01:43I wouldn't say it happened like that. We've been talking for years.
01:46It wasn't like, this wasn't driven from beef.
01:48I didn't send this from beef, I sent this from being a kid from Los Angeles, California,
01:52and watching Kendrick being from Compton, which is not far from where I was raised.
01:56And I was just being persistent and sending as much stuff as I could, and that's what happened.
02:05They both play a very important part in what we're doing right now in hip-hop,
02:09and what we've been doing for the last ten plus years.
02:12And I think that they decided to play around and do that together.
02:15Nobody got hurt.
02:17All eyes are on it, so I guess it's good, right?
02:20Good thing, yeah.
02:21When Terry and I were growing up, we had the Battle of the Bands.
02:24And we battled Prince's band and Morris Day's band in Minneapolis.
02:28So we know the whole idea of music and beef going together.
02:32So for us, it's great to watch.
02:34I think they'll all get it together one day, but Kendrick held his ground and did his job.
02:38He did what he was supposed to do. It's rap, it's rap music.
02:41That don't mean you gotta kill each other, so you know what I'm saying?
02:44I don't think it's nowhere near that. It's rap.
02:52It's just put a lot of fire back in there.
02:55So hopefully other people come with records that's just as hot as those records
02:59that was made in that period, and we can keep the genre where it's supposed to be at.
03:03I feel like Drake's on top, man.
03:05He's got like 20 to 50 people at his neck right now, so it is what it is.
03:10He's gonna hold it down, man, and we'll see what he's got in store.
03:13We don't know what he's got in store yet, but he's got something.
03:21Even the picture you use, the jokes and the medication
03:24The Maybach glove and the drug he uses for less inflation
03:27Master manipulator, you bid on the speculation
03:29It's always been a part of hip-hop from the beginning.
03:32Kendrick showed his versatility. He showed up.
03:36It's really good. These guys make amazing records, and I just hope that it stays in that peaceful place
03:41and that in the future, maybe they'll do another song together. Come on.
03:51Come on.