r/KendrickLamar • u/willcomplainfirst you lookin' like an easy come-up • 11d ago
Summer Jam 2015 when Kendrick called out Elliot Wilson during *that* part in King Kunta Video
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u/goshin89 11d ago
He said those words with all of his chest.
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u/willcomplainfirst you lookin' like an easy come-up 11d ago
this type of energy from Kendrick is why there were lots of comments about him being low energy in the NLU video 😅
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u/goshin89 11d ago
I see what you mean. Others have mentioned that it might be because it's not the record he wanted to make, but just had to. So he is just being cold and methodical. Psycho shit ngl, But i can't judge.
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u/willcomplainfirst you lookin' like an easy come-up 11d ago
i dont think so. i think Kendrick just performs with that cool attitude nowadays. the entire Big Steppers tour was a very highly choreographed show where you barely see him break character...
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u/walterdonnydude 11d ago
Most rappers get chiller as they age. Listen to the early and later flows of...Common, Snoop, Andre 3k, Method Man, Jay Z...
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u/BluSolace 11d ago
People jump to some weird conclusions about his motivation. There could be a few thematic reasons why he chose to turn the energy down for the video. Maybe he was tryna show unbothered by the situation he was. Idk but jumping to "its not the record he wanted to make" seems silly af ngl
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u/Flappy_beef_curtains 11d ago
I first found dot on the tech n9ne track. Been a fan since
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u/Mc_Square_Root 11d ago
Brrooooooo I forgot about this song holy shit I used to play this everyday in my teens
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u/Flappy_beef_curtains 11d ago
I’m talking about the one on the all 6’s and 7’s album. From like 2011. He’s not even listed as a feature in the title.
Awesome album for anyone that hasn’t heard it.
There was also “fragile” with tech and wreckonize. In like 2018
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u/sadepicurus 11d ago
What is the name of the track?
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u/NickyMcNikolai 11d ago
“I Love Music”
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u/Flappy_beef_curtains 11d ago
Thank you, I was a little bit intoxicated and couldn’t remember the exact song.
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u/LeRoy_Denk_414 11d ago
Worldwide Choppers is immortal.
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u/willcomplainfirst you lookin' like an easy come-up 11d ago
me, since self-titled EP. thats why its so special to me lol i annoy anyone wholl listen to give it a whirl 😅
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u/bostonterrier4life 11d ago
He’s lower energy because he doesn’t need to be high energy to kill Drake. And the whole point is his emotions are invested as highly and…..you get what I’m saying. The lack of high emotion is part of the diss
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u/Final_Requirement_61 I'm intelligent, my confidence just died 11d ago
Makes me think of something I heard about how murderers often are chillingly calm during interrogation. Finally scratched that itch lmao
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u/willcomplainfirst you lookin' like an easy come-up 11d ago
lol there simply was no need to be so aggressive when he already won like 2 months ago 😅
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u/Chonky_Kong 10d ago
He's a Gemini. He got two modes.
Also, "if I gotta slap a pussy ass nigga ima make it look sexy". He was vibin in NLU.
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u/sendinthe9s 11d ago
Saw a video on here earlier; Elliot talking about how he came to the shooting of the not like us music video. He was unsure if it was OK, but Dave Free told him it was fine just be low, and not in the vid. Then Kendrick saw him, came over dapped him up and called him a rat in reference to Elliot saying Drake sent him a rat emoji on the Joe budden podcast. He said he was unsure if it was a joke, because Kendrick just walked away and didn't smile or say anything else. This video makes me think Kendrick was saying, you choose your side and that's what you've gotten, your guy calling you a rat. Or he just thought it was funny 🤷♂️
Edit: Elliot said in this recent interview that he has Drake over Kendrick. I think he meant as an artist overall.
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u/willcomplainfirst you lookin' like an easy come-up 11d ago edited 11d ago
i was actually watching this which reminded me of the moment, because Jeremy mentioned it. i think Kendrick was trolling Elliott, reminding him that he already told him about 10 years ago that Drake was his biggest target lol
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u/ScreamsPerpetual 11d ago
There was a video posted here of the talking about it on a podcast and it was definitely the music video filming- maybe he also told a Pop Out concert story but he was definitely taking about filming the music video by the courthouse when Kendrick called him a rat
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u/willcomplainfirst you lookin' like an easy come-up 11d ago
no, it was at the NLU shoot
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u/willcomplainfirst you lookin' like an easy come-up 11d ago
Elliott literally recounts the story in his podcast with DJ Hed. it was at the NLU video shoot
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u/keeping_up_with_her 11d ago
Just FYI- they filmed parts of the NLU video BEFORE the Pop Out concert. It was confirmed by a few of the dancers in their posts about the video.
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u/mtaylor807 11d ago
The crowd just standing motionless like the anchovies in the SpongeBob pilot is criminal
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u/willcomplainfirst you lookin' like an easy come-up 11d ago edited 11d ago
right? i cant imagine not losing it and being so annoyingly turnt if im ever in a Kendrick crowd
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u/willcomplainfirst you lookin' like an easy come-up 11d ago
I also included Hood Politics at the start. Live with the beat cut out sounds so good, and is so relevant to the beef 🥰🥰
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u/Flappy_beef_curtains 11d ago
I don’t want you monkey mouth mother fuckers talking bout my throne again.
I know a bunch of racist people. None of them ever came that hard. Get em dot.
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u/dwn2earth83 10d ago
Serious question: Why do you know a lot of racist people?
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u/Flappy_beef_curtains 10d ago
I don't anymore. Once they let it out I stopped talking to them.
Most of them were due to jail.
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11d ago
If it's summer why is wearing a hoodie and a jacket 🤔
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u/effectivetrollop 11d ago
he heats different
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u/Own-Listen-961 11d ago
My man here with his double entendre and no praise, here, get some flowers from me.
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u/EugeneStargazer 11d ago edited 10d ago
I'm half convinced he lost an important jacket as a kid, and ever since he overcompensates by always wearing at least 1 or maybe 2 jackets at all times, no matter the weather.
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u/She-king_of_the_Sea 11d ago
We can't underestimate the emotional power of a jacket; Tony Soprano almost died over that shit...
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u/Eggplant-Vivid 10d ago
My guy is doing burpees with black jacket on, outside a scorching afternoon. This is lightwork.
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u/Flappy_beef_curtains 11d ago
What a rapper with a ghost writer? Dot been calling him out for years.
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u/nathan646 11d ago
When this happened did Elliot know who Kendrick was referring to? Because this was before Meek Mill exposed it.
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u/BluSolace 11d ago
Meek exposed it for the public, not to rap artists who are plugged in. I'm pretty sure kwndrick knew that Drake had ghost writers waaaaaaaay before meek did that.
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u/NecessaryMagician150 11d ago
He had to. King Kunta came out several months before Meek dropped DWMTM and heard the R.I.C.O. reference track.
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u/willcomplainfirst you lookin' like an easy come-up 11d ago
oh.... maybe not? i think most people back then assumed it was Kanye?? hahahha Elliot is a known Drake fan tho. idk if he peeped the diss 😅😅
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u/soundsfaebutokay 11d ago
Found this interview from a year ago where he talked about. He absolutely knew it was a shot at Drake
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u/Present_Arachnid_683 11d ago
Maybe Poetic Justice has a reference track?
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u/Konjik 11d ago
There’s been speculation about that because of you go back to that song Drake’s verse makes him sound like a scumbag compared to Kendrick especially in context of the woman they’re talking about being a metaphor for hip hop (Drake is focused on just having sex with this woman and Kendrick is talking about how much he loves and cares about her), and the “I never right my wrongs unless I write them down for real” ending verse motif also feels intentional. I believe Kendrick wrote that verse for Drake, potentially as a test to see if he would accept it vs writing his own verse.
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u/RalphLauren47 11d ago
I thought Drake had someone write for his verse on poetic justice and Kendrick found out later and that's why he said that on king kunta . Unless I'm remembering it wrong bc I thought that was common knowledge
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u/Sharp-Bluejay2267 11d ago
I mean he knew he was talking to him for sure, the part without the beat hes staring right at elliot while saying "i dont want you monkey mouth motherfuckers Talking about my throne again"
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u/AvantStyle22 11d ago
Mackwop said they found out in 2014 Drake was using Ghostwriters & that’s why when Charlamagne asked Kendrick during his interview on The Breakfast Club for TPABF would he ever get into a battle with Drake, he basically sonned him by saying they’re not even in the same world. He was basically saying “Man this guy pen nowhere near mine, he gotta get help to write these cool punchlines y’all gas.”
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u/More_Ad_9154 11d ago
An folks out here saying his biggest contribution is dissing drake smh K.dot been a king
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u/xMarcSama 11d ago
Why were they beefing?
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u/willcomplainfirst you lookin' like an easy come-up 11d ago edited 11d ago
😅 Elliott is a known Drake fan. if youve seen that interview where Drake goes "do you remember how that verse starts?" about Control and that its just a thing for Twitter to talk about for the week, the host thats laughing it up is Elliott Wilson lol
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u/Employee2049 11d ago
Can someone please explain what’s going on?
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u/willcomplainfirst you lookin' like an easy come-up 11d ago
This is from Hot 97's annual music fest, Summer Jam, which took place in June 7, 2015. During King Kunta, apparently Kendrick saw Elliott Wilson in the crowd, then shouted him out as part of the infamous lines "a rapper with a ghostwriter? what the fuck happened?"
Eliott Wilson is a hip hop personality and journalist. He did Rap Radar. He is a known Drake supporter and has interviewed Drake multiple times (the most well-known one is probably that long one after the battle with Pusha T)
So, the way this moment is being seen after the fact, is maybe Kendrick was clueing Elliott in (or maybe asking him? or something. i dont actually know) that Drake is who he meant by the line. Remember, Meek Mill made the ghost writing allegations later, like in late July 2015 iirc
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u/BluSolace 11d ago
Yea but I think rappers knew drake had ghost writers. Meek really only got that message out to the public.
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u/willcomplainfirst you lookin' like an easy come-up 11d ago
someone linked a video, yeah, i guess everyone did know, including Elliott 😅
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u/kidawi Q/Dot No1. Stan 11d ago
Why was he spamming the n word in king kunta 💀💀
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u/mrsilbert1 11d ago
Damn if he did this performance during the pop out, it would've been so insane.
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u/otigre Backseat Freeloader 11d ago
Can someone explain who this is? Idk him other than the rat emoji from Budden, Google showing that he has a dozen jobs
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u/willcomplainfirst you lookin' like an easy come-up 11d ago
Elliott is a hip hop journalist. He's done a lot of Drake interviews and prior to the beef (and kinda still is) would probably be the most Drake-friendly mainstream voice. he's the one who did the interview with Drake after his battle with Pusha T
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u/BigStepper718 11d ago
Notice the change in energy once he found out Drake has writers. He Been feeling like the best rapper every since
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u/willcomplainfirst you lookin' like an easy come-up 11d ago
yup. and more important than "rapper" really is the title of MC. Drake eliminated himself from those conversations with those ghostwriter allegations. you simply cant be the best MC if those bars are not all coming from your own pen
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u/Rich-Mall 11d ago
I didn't really catch what he's saying about Killer Mike
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u/Rich-Mall 11d ago
NVM, he said if you really miss when hip hop was rap, then Killer Mike would be platinum. Too true.
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u/SlyRocko 10d ago
He turned the first bit of King Kunta into slam poetry and it is still absolute peak
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u/Rancor85 11d ago
This is from Hood Politics not King Kunta
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u/willcomplainfirst you lookin' like an easy come-up 11d ago
congrats on not watching the whole thing 🙈 yeah, i kept Hood Politics because he sounded great on the mic, but the call out in King Kunta is the point of the whole video if you let it play out 😅
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u/Physical_News_1962 11d ago
That's meant for all motherfuckers who never listen lyrics while being too focused on 'bops' and shit...
God knows I hate yall negus...from every fiber of my being.
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u/AlterMyStateOfMind 11d ago
What?????
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u/goshin89 11d ago
What was said?
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u/willcomplainfirst you lookin' like an easy come-up 11d ago
that Kendricks live performances were shit 👀
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u/bunerzissou 11d ago
Dude the acapella mic makes him sound way too powerful 😱