The Kendrick Lamar Control Responses (On-going) UPDATE: 2023
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tis the 2nd time he said he wanted to beat someone ass.
- rosenberg
- joey badass
someone will call his bluff eventually...
You ever watch a cartoon where 1 guy starts a fight with about 20 guys and the 20 guys all jump the 1 guy. You see smoke and a scuffle going on then the 1 guy who started the fight conveniently sneaks out while the 20 guys unknowing wind up fighting each other.
All these rappers assume they are trying to out do Kendrick but the tide has shifted and now they unknowingly are trying to out do each other. And when the smoke clears, Kendrick will still win because at the end of the day, he will be the most talked about.
C/S..
Joey badass said if he was under Trinidad James in that tour then he wasn't doing it. He took a shot at James. Dude never said he was going to beat his ass and joey shot first.
Rosenberg shitted on him tough in that interview when he first popped. Dude is really the title of his first mixtape honestly.
Still, have not hear a response that's is as hard as Kendricks verse. That nigga just came so violent with it. Def the illest nigga out, sorry Cole.
Lupe Fiasco - SLR 2
Rick Ross Kendrick Lamar response...
This...
Here comes the white hip hop "intelligentsia" backlash...
Kendrick Lamar's 'Control' Verse: Not as Impressive as It Seems
http://www.spin.com/articles/kendrick-lamar-control-verse-big-sean-jay-electronica/
Last night, Big Sean released "Control," a track that won't make his upcoming album, Hall of Fame, due to sample-clearance issues. It's a seven-minute epic pulled along by a squeaky Spanish-language sample, with guest verses from a terse, confident Jay Electronica and an acrobatic Kendrick Lamar. The latter's endless-in-a-good-way rapping here expands from an intoned chant to a gravelly near-yell, delivering loaded lines wherein he declares himself "the King of New York"; places himself amid some of rap's all-time greats (Jay Z, Nas, Eminem, Andre 3000); and, via direct shout-outs, offers up a challenge to the rest of his straight-spitting generation: "Jermaine Cole, Big K.R.I.T., Wale / Pusha T, Meek Mill, A$AP Rocky, Drake / Big Sean, Jay Electron', Tyler, Mac Miller / I got love for you all but I'm trying to murder you niggas." The verse immediately knocked everybody over.
But "Control" is not quite as impressive as it seems. There's a great deal of filibustering in Kendrick's verse: Far too much name-checking just to fill space (from Kurupt to Lindsay Lohan), and numerous lines that say the same exact thing in pretty much the same exact way. The chilling "I don't smoke crack, motherfucker, I sell it" sounds like a Compton cryptkeeper character straight out of his 2012 rap opera good kid, m.A.A.d city, but the idea is quickly abandoned. Such a rah-rah song could use some pathos, and Kendrick's great at that-pleasure-that-pain rapping, but only toward verse's end, when he conjures up an extended, absurdist image (skydiving out of a plane piloted by a drunk-ass old man) does the end result qualify as truly memorable and vivid. Sure, Kendrick's expert trolling of rap's gatekeepers is the big takeaway here, but you admire his balls in even attempting such a thing more than the writing itself. Contrast it with the sober (and, yes, less exciting) Jay Electronica verse that immediately follows — with a solid elemental conceit sustained throughout, every line building on the previous one and propeling his boasts forward — and Kendrick comes off as unfocused and chaotic.
"Control" is also a rap verse about how much he's killing it, even though he isn't really killing it. It feels like an event because Kendrick tells you it's an event. And so it becomes an event, picked up and propelled by a thirsty blogosphere awash in "What do you think? Comment below!"-style nonsense. It's rap lyricism as click bait. Amazingly well-rapped click bait, but Kendrick calling himself "King of New York" is cheap nonetheless. Cheap because it's just a lazy way of upsetting a certain quadrant of embattled rap listeners, but also because at the same time, it tows the party line that New York hip-hop is still monolithic, or even matters much at all. Does it mean anything in 2013 to be the King of New York Rap? Does it mean anything to say you're the King of New York Rap?
Tucked around that unlikely declaration is an incredibly safe act of maintaining the status quo for what constitutes "good" rapping. New York hip-hop is briefly challenged and affronted here, but ultimately, it is also further mythologized. Also, the lack of Southern MCs in Kendrick's rundown (save for Big K.R.I.T.) is particularly egregious. Kendrick is constructing a narrative here: Not only did he unleash the verse of the year, dawg, but he's essentially told listeners which mainstream-approved rappers they should care about. He might as well be editing XXL here, planning a cover story titled "#NEWLYRICISM." Typically, though, there's nothing "new" about the lyricism celebrated or displayed on "Control."
Typical cac response. Theyre just mad because macklemore wasnt mentioned..
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Kurupt:
I'm the miller to military
Bold eagle squeeze a cesar ebonizer
I am the worse, what?
That's why my bitch told me after I took her purse
Shove it down, looking for a pounded … bitch
I'm scanless, I poke you like dare antlers cancerous
Cause I ain't got no time to play
When I ask you a question answer is the lie where you lay
Lay where you die, never wake up, die where you lay
It's hard to survive ******, or the high where you stay
I'm important like Pope i'm the king of New York
I'm live from South Central, I'm a Muslim on pork
Kurupt:
I'm the miller to military
Bold eagle squeeze a cesar ebonizer
I am the worse, what?
That's why my bitch told me after I took her purse
Shove it down, looking for a pounded … bitch
I'm scanless, I poke you like dare antlers cancerous
Cause I ain't got no time to play
When I ask you a question answer is the lie where you lay
Lay where you die, never wake up, die where you lay
It's hard to survive ******, or the high where you stay
I'm important like Pope i'm the king of New York
I'm live from South Central, I'm a Muslim on pork
The Mad Rapper – Control Freestyle
https://soundcloud.com/crazy-cat-catalogue/control-mad-rapper-freestyle
https://soundcloud.com/crazy-cat-catalogue/control-mad-rapper-freestyle
This...
Typical cac response. Theyre just mad because macklemore wasnt mentioned..
white journalist have no say period.
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Grafh-Control (Freestyle) "I'll Body You"
https://soundcloud.com/grafh-1/grafh-control-freestyle-i-body
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https://soundcloud.com/grafh-1/grafh-control-freestyle-i-body
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This...
Typical cac response. Theyre just mad because macklemore wasnt mentioned..
You ever watch a cartoon where 1 guy starts a fight with about 20 guys and the 20 guys all jump the 1 guy. You see smoke and a scuffle going on then the 1 guy who started the fight conveniently sneaks out while the 20 guys unknowing wind up fighting each other.
All these rappers assume they are trying to out do Kendrick but the tide has shifted and now they unknowingly are trying to out do each other. And when the smoke clears, Kendrick will still win because at the end of the day, he will be the most talked about.
You ever watch a cartoon where 1 guy starts a fight with about 20 guys and the 20 guys all jump the 1 guy. You see smoke and a scuffle going on then the 1 guy who started the fight conveniently sneaks out while the 20 guys unknowing wind up fighting each other.
All these rappers assume they are trying to out do Kendrick but the tide has shifted and now they unknowingly are trying to out do each other. And when the smoke clears, Kendrick will still win because at the end of the day, he will be the most talked about.
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I agree with this
papoose blacked out. 