Kendrick Lamar nabs the cover of GQ's "Men of the Year" issue. The publication also crowns the Compton native as "The Next King of Rap."
The Black Hippy member has accomplished a quite a bit in the last couple of years. He's certainly one of the most popular and talked about hip hop artists.
He's kept his buzz high after the release of good kid, m.A.A.d city with numerous features including his "Control" verse that rubbed a few rappers the wrong way.
"I'm usually homeboys with the same n*ggas I'm rhymin' with/But this is hip-hop and them n*ggas should know what time it is/And that goes for Jermaine Cole, Big KRIT, Wale, Pusha T, Meek Millz, A$AP Rocky, Drake, Big Sean, Jay Electron', Tyler, Mac Miller/I got love for you all but I'm tryna murder you n*ggas/Trying to make sure your core fans never heard of you n*iggas/They don't wanna hear not one more noun or verb from you n*ggas," Kendrick raps on the song.
Although K. Dot says he wasn't dissing any of the rappers mentioned in the verse it seems that some may have taken it that way.
"I know good and well that Kendrick's not murdering me, at all, in any platform. So when that day presents itself, I guess we can revisit the topic," Drake told Billboard in August.
On the heels of Black Hippy's 2013 BET Hip Hop Awards cypher, where many believe Kendrick was dissing Drizzy, he was asked about the YMCMB artist during his chat with GQ.
"[We're] pretty cool," then added: "I mean, I would be okay if we weren't." In the interview, Kendrick acknowledged that Drake had taken his verse to be a diss, and added that Drake wasn't a creative influence or role model. "If anything. We all peers," K. Dot said, according to Complex.
Kendrick doesn't seem the least bit worried about what Drake thinks. Pick up this issue of GQ on newsstands now to read more.
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