Hip-Hop followers, media figures and recording artists have been sharing their ideas on the continued battles going down within the tradition this yr. Extra not too long ago, Rapsody spoke about Kendrick Lamar and J. Cole buying and selling bars on their respective songs.
Cole labeled Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly album overrated on his “7 Minute Drill” diss file. The music served as a response to Future and Metro Boomin’s “Like That” that includes Lamar. Cole ultimately apologized for “7 Minute Drill” and deleted it from DSPs.
Rapsody labored with Kendrick Lamar on “Complexion (A Zulu Love)” off the Grammy Award-winning To Pimp a Butterfly. She additionally collaborated with J. Cole on the “Sojourner” monitor.
“It’s one of many biggest albums ever created,” Rapsody mentioned about To Pimp A Butterfly throughout an interview on The Bootleg Kev Podcast. “It’s one in every of my favorites of all time, even taking me off it, I really feel that manner.”
The North Carolina-bred MC added, “I considered that when Cole made his apology. And when he did it, I used to be like, ‘I might by no means strategy it, going at [Kendrick Lamar’s] discography.’ However the artwork of battle is simply, battle is battle.”
Quite a few media shops picked up Rapsody’s feedback about Kendrick Lamar and J. Cole. A few of these articles about her tackle the battle apparently didn’t sit nicely with the Grammy-nominated lyricist.
“I miss good journalism,” she tweeted. “Not into the [clickbait] bloggers, podcasters and passive readers. [red heart emoji].”