Kendrick Lamar will not be into these “huge three” conversations. For the previous few years, rap top-dog conversations have revolved round three names: Kendrick, Drake, and J. Cole. Kendrick and Drake have been taking photographs at each other for greater than a decade, however Kendrick has by no means been identified to have any downside with Cole till this morning. Now, nevertheless, Drake and Cole have a few collaborations, and so they’re on tour collectively. Kendrick will not be into it, and he’s letting it’s identified.
This morning, Future and Metro Boomin launched We Don’t Belief You, the primary of two deliberate collaborative albums which are apparently popping out this yr. I’m on my first pay attention proper now, and it’s actually, actually good. The file has a cinematic circulation, and it sounds superb in a automotive. In line with latest A-list rap-album custom, the album has no featured credit, so when collaborators present up, they work as shock cameos. (So, uh, spoiler alert.) The Weeknd, Travis Scott, Playboi Carti, and Rick Ross all make appearances, and voice clips from the late Prodigy generally play between songs. However the huge second is Kendrick Lamar’s arrival. That will be the massive second even when Kendrick didn’t discuss some critical shit.
Kendrick Lamar makes is look on “Like That,” observe six of a 17-song album. It’s an excellent music. “Like That” has a sinister churn, and it samples Eazy-E’s “Eazy Duz It” and Rodney O & Joe Cooley’s “Eternal Bass.” Future has a sinister verse that’s principally about having intercourse together with your girlfriend, after which Kendrick pops in and runs wild. Kendrick Lamar visitor verses are uncommon lately, and offended Kendrick guest-verses are even rarer, so this one issues. Kendrick actually talks his shit, too. “If he stroll round with that stick, it ain’t Andre 3K”? Come on.
Final yr, Drake and J. Cole launched “First Individual Shooter,” their first-ever collaboration, and it debuted at #1. On that music, Cole particularly invokes Kendrick’s title: “Love once they argue the toughest MC/ Is it Ok. Dot, is it Aubrey, or me?/ We the massive three like we began a league.” On “Like That,” Kendrick presents his rebuttal: “Stand up with me/ Fuck sneak dissin’, first particular person shooter, I hope they got here with three switches.” After which: “Motherfuck the massive three, n***a, it’s simply huge me/ N***a bum! What? I’m actually like that/ And your greatest work is a lightweight pack/ N***a, Prince outlived Mike Jack/ N***a bum! ‘Fore all of your canines gettin’ buried/ That’s a Ok with all these nines, he gon’ see Pet Sematary.” Whooo! Hear beneath.
Whilst you’re at it, I might extremely recommend streaming all of We Don’t Belief You beneath. Twenty years after Madvillainy, we get a really completely different iconic rapper/producer duo doing a little very completely different mad villain shit.
We Don’t Belief You is out now on Wilburn Holding Co./Boominati Worldwide/Epic/Republic. Drake and Future are frequent collaborators, however there’s been discuss of a Drake/Metro rivalry currently. This story isn’t over. It’d by no means finish.
