Kendrick Lamar and Drake‘s feud was reignited over a rejected feature request — specifically, one of the latter’s biggest hits of last year.
That’s according to Akademiks, anyway, who claimed on “good authority” that the simmering tension between the Hp Hop heavyweights exploded in recent weeks after Kendrick turned down a guest spot on Drizzy’s chart-topping “First Person Shooter” alongside J. Cole.
“I now have good authority to say that allegedly Drake hit up Kendrick and ‘First Person Shooter’ should have been a song with Drake, Cole and Kendrick,” he said. “Now, if you think about this entire timeline and beef with that in mind, it makes sense.”
The media personality then said that Cole’s verse on the song (“Love when they argue the hardest MC/ Is it K. Dot? Is it Aubrey? Or me?/ We the big three like we started a league, but right now, I feel like Muhammad Ali”) “upset” Kendrick, inspiring his blistering verse on Future and Metro Boomin’s “Like That.”
“He says, ‘Man, these bum-ass n-ggas who couldn’t get a feature from me are now acting like they’re number one and number two. Fuck both of them!’” he continued. “That is what I am hearing.”
Ak also claimed that lyrics on “First Person Shooter” were “reworked” after the Kendrick snub.
“If you listen to, allegedly, a part of especially Cole’s verse, that verse was intended to be, ‘Yo, I’m here with my brothers and we’re the best! But I still feel like I’m the best, but we’re the best.’” he said.
“If you listen to Cole’s verse, you will hear what the original intention of the song was […] Allegedly, Kendrick already told J. Cole that he was going to be on the record.”
“From what I’m hearing, Kendrick got upset because, yes, he turned down the feature because he’s got smoke with Drake, but once he heard them talking like it’s just them two, he said, ‘Alright, fuck it! My next verse, I’m about to say, ‘Fuck the big…
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