Kendrick Lamar has surprised pretty much everyone by surprise-dropping a combative new song on Instagram. On Wednesday (September 11), K.Dot’s rarely-used Instagram account posted an as-yet unnamed new song, with cover art of a pair of black Nike Airs.
Not much information about the track is yet known, but it finds Kendrick ready to take on the world, with lyrics that seem to reference his recent battle with Drake.
Listen to the song below.
In the first verse, Kendrick raps: “Why reason with these n-ggas if they can’t see the future first?/ Why argue with these clowns if the circus is well at work?/ Just walk that man down, that’ll do everyone a solid/ It’s love, but tough love sometimes gotta result in violence.”
In the second, he takes a shot at an unnamed enemy who is “Dirty macking bitches because your spirit is insecure/ The flashy n-gga with nasty decisions, using money as a backbone/ I want his head cracked before he’s back home.”
In other recent Kendrick news, Joe Budden made a startling claim about his and Drake’s beef, claiming they spoke before engaging in lyrical warfare this past summer.
Speaking on the latest episode of his self-titled podcast, the former Slaughterhouse rapper cited insider speculation that the rap rivals “had a talk” before exhanging diss songs to outline the rules of battle.
“I heard that Drake and Kendrick had a talk before any diss record was released. I don’t know if that’s true or not, but I heard they spoke!” he said.
When pressed for more details about this alleged conversation, Budden said: “It went like the Teddy Pendergrass part of the shit,” referencing the dreamy yet disparaging intro of Kendrick’s “Euphoria,” which samples the soul singer’s 1981 track “You’re My Latest, My Greatest Inspiration.”
“‘Hey, how do you want this go?’” he continued, imagining what Kendrick asked Drake during their alleged talk. “‘What we doing? Oh, we rapping? Okay, then let’s keep it umph.’ And he didn’t keep it umph so…
“It’s not even, like, real tea. It’s only tea ’cause to say it to him on the phone — like, I know what that’s like when you bouta fucking tear a n-gga. ‘Let me call him and make sure first. Hey man, we doing this for real?’”
