Future Reveals The Kendrick Lamar “Like That” Lyric That He Took Personally
The epic rap battle between Kendrick Lamar and Drake has proved to be the defining musical moment of 2024. Yet, one detail regarding the origin of the two hitmakers’ war of words continues to rub fellow rap star Future the wrong way, which the Atlanta native expressed in a recent interview with GQ.
In the magazine’s cover story on himself and longtime collaborator Metro Boomin, Future highlighted the overlooked fact that Kendrick Lamar excluded him from the mythical “Big 3” triumvirate the Compton rapper shunned on their chart-topping single, “Like That.”
According to Future, the inference was that he isn’t considered in the same class as Lamar, Drake, and Cole, the third artist oft-included in the “Big 3” grouping.
“I’m supposed to be the one who gets mad; I’m still confused about that. Nobody cares about what I think,” Future jokingly said in the feature story.
From Future’s vantage point, he should’ve been more upset than both Drake and J. Cole, being that the exclusion was even more egregious being that it occurred on his own song.
“That’s what was so f**ked up about the sh*t,” he lamented. “To the point where I’m so player that I ain’t even said anything to the public about how I feel about it. Like, why is everybody mad when he was talking about me on my song? So y’all just forgot about me, I ain’t part of this Big Three, I’m nobody on my song, man.”
The 41-year-old continued, “If I didn’t get mad, nobody should have gotten mad! If I would have been really mad about it and I made something out of it, then someone else could be like, Oh, I can make something else about it.”
Kendrick Lamar’s appearance on “Like That” served as the first gauntlet thrown in the battle between himself and Drake, with the GRAMMY Award-winning artist denouncing all competitors with the line, “Motherf**k the big three, ni**a, it’s just big me.”
The barb would elicit responses from both Drake and J. Cole, with J. Cole bowing out early, leaving the rhyme war focused squarely on Drake and Kendrick Lamar.
Yet, it appears that the hit single’s collateral damage on Kendrick’s contemporaries has yet to be truly quantified.
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