Whereas the mud seems to have settled within the Kendrick Lamar and Drake feud, different rappers are nonetheless offering their takeaways from the huge battle that swept the hip-hop world and permeated popular culture.
T.I. pulled as much as Large Boy’s Neighborhood in an episode that dropped Might 16, the place he broke down the Drake-Ok. Dot battle as Large Boy peppered him with questions. Tip believes that Cole selected “peace and tranquility” on the subject of bowing out of the feud after dropping “7 Minute Drill” (which he later faraway from streaming providers following his apology to Lamar at Dreamville Fest).
“You gotta have thick pores and skin,” he mentioned. “You gotta be actually unfazed and unbothered. We don’t know the temperament or sensitivity of Cole’s dynamic. We by no means seen Cole upset, we don’t know the place that’ll take him. That was fairly mature of him.”
So far as the jarring allegations made by either side, T.I. says he doesn’t consider every part he hears. “I simply respect the talent units and the presentation — the artwork,” he defined. “I attempt to take all of it with a grain of salt. All of the s–t they saying can’t be true.”
The “What You Know” rapper continued: “It received to be some embellishment or some ambiguous nature in a few of this. It will probably’t all be true, however I simply principally hear for the double entendres, quadruple entendres, and the metaphors and simply the talent by which they current they artwork.”
Kendrick and Drake’s friends may not be as thrilled as followers in regards to the beef, as T.I. believes some could have had their launch dates and rollout plans thrown off and pushed again on account of the feud taking over a ton of oxygen within the rap eco-system during the last month.
“They executed kinda f—-d it up for another who have been planning to drop on this interval,” he mentioned.
Drake dropped “The Coronary heart Half 6” on Might 5, and Kendrick hasn’t replied since, signaling an finish to the warfare. Ok. Dot’s “Not Like Us” dominated final week’s Billboard Scorching 100, whereas his “Euphoria” diss monitor got here in at No. 3 in its first full week of monitoring forward of Drake’s “Household Issues” (No. 7) in an animosity-filled high 10.
Discover T.I.’s full interview beneath. Speak in regards to the Kendrick-Drake feud begins across the 34-minute mark.
