Hip Hop was a great year in 2013 with Kanye West, Jay-Z, Drake, J-Cole, Eminem and many more big names dropping albums. One rapper in particular dropped an album over a year ago but still managed to keep his name alive this year. That rapper is Kendrick Lamar who just earned himself GQ’s Rapper of the Year.
Kendrick Lamar’s GQ title is deserving. Even though his major label debut Good kid, m.A,A,d city sold 241,000 copies in its first week, it managed to go platinum by the end of this summer. This may have even come partly from his demolition of other rappers in the game by calling out big names like Drake, J-Cole, A$AP Rocky and even Big Sean on his own song “Control.” For maybe up to 2 weeks, this was the biggest story in Hip-Hop and it triggered rappers that weren’t named to make remixes out of disrespect.
When asked if things were cool between him and Drake, Kendrick’s response was:
“Pretty cool.” Then he shrugs, “And I mean, I would be okay if we weren’t.”
Clearly Drake wasn’t cool with Kendrick Lamar. On his Nothing Was The Same promotional grind, Drake spoke on Kendrick. “You can’t just say that and then see me and be like, ‘Yeah, man, what’s up?’- pretending like nothing ever happened.”
Then it seemed like Kendrick went at Drake in the BET Hip Hop Awards cypher. He raps, “Nothing been the same since they dropped “Control/ and tucked a sensitive rapper back in his pajama clothes.”
According to MTV Rap Fix the newly crowned Rapper of the Year couldn’t leave without spitting a freestyle.
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