Drake‘s going to need some extra moisturizer in his post-milk-bath rubdown after this one.
The Nothing Was The Same hitmaker has made it publicly and repeatedly known that he didn’t take kindly to Kendrick Lamar’s Summertime verse on Big Sean’s “Control,” and judging by Kendrick’s fiery BET Awards cypher verse (airing later this month), things are about to get a bit stickier. “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,” he told Billboard in August.
He took it even further recently. “That (“Control”) verse was a moment to talk about. Are you listening to it now, though?,” Drake asked at NYU’s Skirball Center. He continued: “He didn’t come in there on some wild, ‘I’m in New York, fuck everybody.’ 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.”
Kendrick has responded to Drake in a fiery cypher to be aired during the BET Awards later this month. A 15-second clip of the cypher has been circulating, and includes the following lines: “And nothing’s been the same since they dropped ‘Control’/And tucked a sensitive rapper back in his pajama clothes/Ha-ha, joke’s on you.”
Nothing Was The Same is the title of Drake’s third album, currently topping the sales charts. We’ll be catching Kendrick Lamar at this weekend’s Austin City Limits festival – keep up with our daily coverage including photo galleries, reviews, interviews and more right here.
