Kendrick Lamar’s unreleased track, targeting Big Sean, Jay Electronica, and French Montana, has made its way online, causing quite a stir.
This leaked song, which surfaced on social media on September 7, seems to be an alternate version of “Pandemic” from TDE’s 2018 Black Panther soundtrack. In it, K. Dot doesn’t mince words, calling out the trio by name.
The Compton native also brings up the well-known feud between Drake and Meek Mill, using it as a point of reference to assert that Big Sean operates in a completely different league.
“Fuck subliminals, I put you on the roll call/ French Montana speaking on me in interviews/ Very cynical, dry hating something I don’t approve/ Jay Electronica put silencers on my Grammy night/ Another dead prophet hoping the God’ll give him life,” he raps on the song.
He continues, “Big Sean keep sneak dissin,’ I let it slide/ I think his false confidence got him inspired/ I can’t make them respect you, baby, it’s not my job/ You finally famous for who you date, not how you rhyme (boy).”
He adds: “Cute-ass raps, get your puberty up/ Then make you a classic album before you come at us/ Drake and Meek Mill beef might got you gassed up/ But I’m a whole ‘nother beast, I really fuck you up.”
Kendrick Lamar’s sharp verses allude to French Montana’s 2016 interview with The Breakfast Club, where he suggested that K. Dot was inadvertently devaluing street rap.
The rapper expressed, “Because they position [Kendrick], like how they did at the Grammys, as the new music,” he said. “It’s not that it’s not the right thing to do, but I just feel like they… You see the whole thing was, like, Kendrick night.
“That album [To Pimp a Butterfly] don’t sound like nothing that’s out. The whole Hip Hop game don’t sound like that. He took that one step to the left. That’s not what you listen to all the time, right?”
In contrast, Jay Electronica took shots at Kendrick Lamar during a Periscope livestream in February 2016, claiming, “Kendrick wishes he could be me.”
“As for Big Sean, the Detroit rapper was embroiled in a subliminal war of words with Kendrick in the mid-2010s, during which the pair threw thinly-veiled shots at each other on wax.”
Source: WhatsOnRap