With mainly no warning, Kendrick Lamar launched his new album, GNX, on Friday, and he caught everyone’s consideration from the leap. On the album’s first track, “Wacced Out Murals,” Lamar mentions three veteran rappers by title, and every has responded to the name-checks, as Stereogum notes.
First, Lamar raps, “Used to bump Tha Carter III, I held my Rollie chain proud/Irony, I believe my onerous work let Lil Wayne down,” and that led Lil Wayne to publish on X, “Man wtf I do?!” He continued, “I simply be chillin & dey nonetheless kome 4 my head. Let’s not take kindness for weak spot. Let this large sleep. I encourage u all. Nobody actually desires destruction,not even me however I shall destroy if disturbed. On me. Love.”
Subsequent, Lamar says, “Snoop posted ‘Taylor Made,’ I prayed it was the edibles/I couldn’t imagine it, it was solely proper for me to let it go.” Snoop Dogg—who responded, in April, to Drake’s “Taylor Made Freestyle” with some incredulity—took Lamar’s lyrics in stride, writing on X, “Okay dot new album GNX 💥🔥🔥🔥🔥🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤 It was the edibles 🤦🏾 😆👊🏿 west west king 🔥🎶💫.”
Lastly, Lamar was extra reverent of Nas on “Wacced Out Murals,” rapping, “Received the Tremendous Bowl and Nas the one one congratulate me.” Nas responded in the present day, “All the time impressed by my brother KL. Maintaining the essence of this shit alive and on the forefront. Salute King!”
There’s yet another musician who has quite a bit to say about GNX regardless of not being talked about anyplace on the album, and that’s Father John Misty, who, one way or the other, has, kind of, the identical album launch schedule as Lamar. After some posts on X (“not now I’m furiously scribbling my seeming response to,” “there goes my #1”), Father John Misty took issues a step additional with a “diss observe.” It’s not likely a diss track, however “God’s Trash,” which was just lately featured on a Bandcamp-exclusive dwell album. However that hasn’t stopped Father John Misty from playfully framing it as a Lamar retort. Discover his “diss” on Instagram.
