Kendrick Lamar’s new song “Euphoria” has rap fans on social media buzzing, but not just for its inventive Drake disses. While the song’s references to Drake’s foibles and flaws have fans dissecting their favorite lines, one in particular has them scratching their heads instead.
Although pop culture references have never been Kendrick’s strong suit, he name-checks the child actor from the films The Sixth Sense and AI: Artificial Intelligence to undercut Drake’s use of AI to utilize deceased rapper Tupac’s voice in his “Taylor Made Freestyle.” At least, he thinks he does — because the name Kendrick actually checked is Joel Osteen, the controversial televangelist whose Texas megachurch drew negative headlines for how it handled its Hurricane Harvey response in 2017. The name he apparently meant to say is Haley Joel Osment, who achieved cultural ubiquity for his reading of the iconic line “I see dead people” in the 1999 thriller The Sixth Sense.
Did this man confuse Joel Olsteen with Haley Joel Osment
i just wish i was in the room as a movie expert to let Kendrick know that he mixed up Joel Osteen (the televangelist preacher) with Haley Joel Osment (the child actor who starred in A.I. and The 6th Sense) other than that though? no notes. 9/10. madness.
As fans remark on the hilarious mix-up, one joke that keeps recurring is the similarity to Abbott Elementary character Barbara Howard. One of the show’s teachers played by Sheryl Lee Ralph, Mrs. Howard is the center of a running gag in which she regularly confuses white celebrities’ names, but everyone else can usually figure out who she really means. Examples include Brian Austin Green (Bryan Tyree Henry), Carrie Underwood (Keri Washington), and Tommy Lee Jones (James Earl Jones). Check out some more responses below:
— a.s.f. aint doin shit (@asfaintdoinshit) April 30, 2024
Kendrick confusing Haley Joel Osment with Joel Osteen is so fucking funny, he didn’t even Google shit, just walked into the booth mad as hell lmaooo https://t.co/ibu9xq3FvR
Gillie Da Kid isn’t a fan of Kendrick Lamar’s new diss track, “Euphoria,” on which he takes aim at Drake amid their ongoing feud. The Million Dollaz Worth Of Game host voiced his first impression of the song in a video posted to social media on Tuesday. While filming himself in his car, Gillie explains that he thinks the track is corny and that Drake is up 2-0 in the beef.
“I f*ck with Kendrick but that sh*t was corn on the cob man,” Gillie said. “You know what’s crazy man? The light-skinned n****s is winning three to nothing. Drake up two to nothing. Chris Brown up one to nothing. Just take me back. I remember in the late eighties light skin n****s ran everything up to the late eighties. Then Nino Brown pistol-whipped every light-skinned n***a in New Jack City. Then they had it bad all the way up to Steph Curry and Chris Brown and Klay Thompson and Drake. Now the light-skinned n****s doing what they want.”
Kendrick Lamar Performs At Life Is Beautiful In Las Vegas
Kendrick Lamar at Life Is Beautiful 2023 on September 23, 2023, in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Christopher Polk/Billboard via Getty Images)
On the track, Lamar goes off on the Toronto rapper, accusing him of being a “scam artist,” implying he’s a bad father, and much more. At one point, he brings up Drake’s previous feud with Pusha T. He raps: “I don’t like you poppin’ sh*t, that sh*t for real, I inherit the beef / Yeah, f*ck all that pushin’ P, let me see you push-a-T / You better off spinnin’ again on him, you think about pushin’ me?” At another point, he brings Drake’s race into the conversation. “How many more fairytale stories about your life ’til we’ve had enough?” Lamar raps. “How many more Black features ’til you finally feel that you’re Black enough?”
It’s been a flood of PARTYNEXTDOOR news in the past week. Fans of the OVO R&B singer got a new album from him over the weekend. It was his first project since 2020’s PARTYMOBILE and his first new entry in his self-titled PND series since 2016. Songs like “R e s e n t m e n t” and “H e r O l d F r i e n d s” that dropped in advance of the album are already racking up millions of streams. The album will make its debut on the Billboard 200 later this week.
Now fans who are loving his new music will get the chance to see him perform live later this year. Earlier this week he announced that he was taking off on a tour. It’s called the “Sorry I’m Outside” tour and while it didn’t have dates confirmed right away, it didn’t take long. The 24-date tour includes a number of American and Canadian cities and numerous festival stops. He’ll play sets at Cowboys Music Festival, Broccoli City Festival, and Afro Nation Detroit in the next few months. Check out the tour announcement and full lineup of shows below.
PND’s new album has been getting quite a lot of love from fans since it dropped. Many have praised its sensual ambitions and catchy songwriting online. What do you think of PARTYNEXTDOOR announcing his tour dates for this year’s “Sorry I’m Outside” tour? Do you plan on seeing him perform anywhere this year? Let us know in the comment section below.
Tour Dates: 06/19 – Phoenix, AZ @ The Van Buren 06/21 – San Diego, CA @ SOMA 06/23 – Las Vegas, NV @ LIV Nightclub Las Vegas 06/27 – Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Palladium 07/1 – Oakland, CA @ The Fox Theater 07/3 – Seattle, WA @ The Paramount Theatre 07/5 – Vancouver, BC @ PNE Forum 07/7 – Calgary, AB @ Cowboys Music Festival 07/9 – Edmonton, AB @ Midway Music Hall 07/12 – Denver, CO @ Fillmore Auditorium 07/14 – Dallas, TX @ South Side Ballroom 07/15 – Houston, TX @ Bayou Music Center 07/18 – Atlanta, GA @ Coca-Cola Roxy 07/20 – Miami, FL @ Fillmore Miami Beach 07/23 – Orlando, FL @ House of Blues 07/25 – Charlotte, NC @ The Fillmore 07/27 – Washington, D.C. @ Broccoli City Festival 07/30 – Boston, MA @ House of Blues 08/6 – Montreal, QC @ MTELUS 08/8 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Paramount 08/11 – Wallingford, CT @ The Dome at Toyota Oakdale Theatre 08/13 – Philadelphia, PA -@The Fillmore 08/15 – Chicago, IL @ The Salt Shed 08/18 – Detroit, MI @ Afro Nation Detroit
Today, Kendrick Lamar escalated his rap war with Drake in a huge way, launching an intercontinental ballistic missile with “Euphoria,” his response to Drake’s paired sallies, “Push-Ups” and “Taylor Made Freestyle.” After Kendrick initially threw down the gauntlet with his verse on Future and Metro Boomin’s We Don’t Trust You track “Like That,” fans were disappointed that it took him so long to clap back at Drake, especially after Drake made the critical error of employing AI reproductions of West Coast icons Snoop Dogg and Tupac Shakur on his latter response to “Like That.”
But any lingering disappointment was blown away — along with all expectations of plausible deniability — when Kendrick dropped “Euphoria,” the most scathing anti-Drake track from one of the Canadian competitor’s foes since “The Story Of Adidon.” In fact, that dust-up is one of the many points of contention Kendrick addresses in “Euphoria,” sneering, “F*ck all that pushin’ P, let me see you push-a-T / You better off spinnin’ again on him, you think about pushin’ me / He’s Terrance Thornton, I’m Terrance Crawford, I’m whoopin’ feet.” And that’s just one of the many, many haymakers Kendrick unloads on his opponent. Here are the 10 best lines from Kendrick’s latest Drake diss and what we think they mean.
“Cole and Aubrey know I’m a selfish n***; the crown is heavy / I pray they my real friends, if not, I’m YNW Melly”
Gifford, Florida rapper YNW Melly is currently on trial for allegedly plotting the murder of two members of his rap crew, YNW Sakchaser and YNW Juvy, and staging the scene to look like the result of a drive-by by rivals. K. Dot likens himself to Melly and Drake and J. Cole to Melly’s victims, pointing out how they couldn’t have been friends if Melly actually did set them up. In the same way, Kendrick doesn’t see Drake or Cole as friends in the rap business, only rivals.
“I hate the way that you walk, the way that you talk, I hate the way that you dress / I hate the way you sneak diss, if I catch flight, it’s gon’ be direct”
Self-explanatory, but it’s rare you see rappers state their emotions so plainly in rap battles. Kendrick doesn’t dress it up in any fancy metaphors, he just tells it like it is (although, on a personal note, I feel like if he REALLY didn’t like him this much, just fight it out. Let’s get all the way negative, as Vince Staples would say).
“My first one like my last one: it’s a classic, you don’t have one / Let your core audience stomach that; didn’t tell ’em where you get your abs from”
In “Push-Ups,” Drake taunts Kendrick over the lukewarm reception of his 2022 album Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers. “Your last one bricked, you really not on sh*t,” he mocked. “They make excuses for you ’cause they hate to see me lit.” Here, Kendrick stands up for his misunderstood album, and in a bit of a non-sequitur, redirects attention to the longstanding rumor that Drake got liposuction in order to cut a more impressive figure.
“Surprised you wanted that feature request / You know that we got some shit to address”
Not much of a diss, but more of a surprising reveal, this line dishes some behind-the-scenes dirt: That despite the tension between the two rappers, Drake still wants to work with Kendrick, who would rather air out dirty laundry than collaborate with Drake again. According to some internet rumors, the song K. Dot turned down? “First Person Shooter,” on which Drake allegedly began the latest round of “sneak-dissing.”
“When I see you stand by Sexyy Red, I believe you see two bad bitches / I believe you don’t like women, that’s real competition, you might pop ass with ’em”
On a personal level, I have to say, I’m disappointed. Rap’s love for casual misogyny rears its ugly head yet again. Kendrick isn’t quite as evolved as he made out on his last album, and yet, there’s something to the idea that Drake engages in just as much misogyny as any rapper, he just dresses it up in “nice guy” rhetoric.
“Let’s speak on percentage, show me your splits, I make sure I double back with you / You was signed to a n**** that’s signed to a n**** that said he was signed to that n****”
Here’s some inside baseball, but also a deft reminder that those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. When Drake baited Kendrick over his recording contract on “Push-Ups” (“The way you doin’ splits, bitch, your pants might rip”), he conveniently overlooked how bad his own first deal was. Now that Drake’s licensing his publishing to Republic, he’s in a better position, but it wasn’t too long ago he was in the same corner as a lot of rappers (and doing very little to improve conditions overall in the music biz).
“Why would I call around tryna get dirt on n****s? Y’all think all of my life is rap? / That’s ho sh*t, I got a son to raise, but I can see you know nothin’ ’bout that”
Another callback to “The Story Of Adidon,” Kendrick reminds listeners and Drake that rap gossip doesn’t dominate his waking hours — and that Drake had to be “bullied into being a father” (not to be a wet blanket, but I also hate this narrative for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is that all this started on a record from Future, of all people).
“Am I battlin’ ghosts or AI? N**** feelin’ like Joel Osteen / Funny, he was in a film called AI and my sixth sense tellin’ me to off him”
Off the wordplay alone, this might be the best bar in the whole damn song, although Kendrick accidentally (?) pulls a Mrs. Howard from Abbott Elementary (and like Sheryl Lee Ralph’s iconic character, we all know what he means). For all you kids whose birth year starts with a “2,” Haley Joel Osment (the person he meant to reference, not mega-church televangelist Joel Osteen) was a child actor best known for two roles: The Sixth Sense and AI: Artificial Intelligence. In the first, he played a traumatized child who could “see dead people” and in the latter, he portrayed an abandoned android hoping to become a real boy a la Pinocchio.
Kendrick name-checks Osment to take another dig at Drake for using an AI Tupac voice on “Taylor Made,” and the perceived disrespect of using a deceased rap legend to make his point for him using technology — i.e. “ghost or AI.” Dot’s play on “sixth sense” ties the metaphor together but also underscores his natural instinct for battle.
“Whoever that’s f*ckin’ with him, f*ck you n****s, and f*ck the industry too / If you takin’ it there, I’m takin’ it further; psst, that’s somethin’ that you don’t wanna do”
Kendrick ends with a familiar refrain, calling back to his longstanding distaste for industry politics and cold regard for fame. However, he also ends on a warning to Drake — his reprisal could well be even more vicious and revelatory if Drake decides to continue the game.
Drake got dissed today as Kendrick Lamar finally offered up his response to “Push Ups.” Overall, “Euphoria” is taking the world by storm in a big way. It is all that people want to talk about today. Every other story in the hip-hop world has been put on the backburner. Throughout the song, Kendrick takes some serious shots at Drake, and although some feel like the bars aren’t hitting, others believe this might be the greatest display of raw hate we have ever seen. Wherever you may stand on this topic, there is no doubt that things are getting interesting.
Since the release of the song, fans have been wondering whether or not Drake has heard it. Moreover, there are some who are contemplating whether or not Drizzy is going to drop the song anytime soon. Well, it seems as though Drizzy may have offered up a response. In the tweets below, you can see that Drake has been liking some Instagram posts. In one of these posts, the caption is simply, “That’s it?” Of course, this points towards Drake not being overly impressed with what K. Dot had to offer.
However, in another post from DJ Akademiks, there is a tweet from Daylyt where he puts Drake on the clock. Drizzy went on to like this as well, which hints that he could very well be looking into a response, sometime soon. For now, however, fans are just going to have to wait. It took each artist three weeks to respond, so we could be on that timeline yet again. Only time will tell if this escalates any further than it already has.
Let us know what you think of this response from Drake, in the comments section down below. Do you believe that a response track is on the horizon? Or do you believe that Drake is just going to leave this here and end it once and for all? Additionally, stay tuned to HNHH for the latest news and updates from around the music world. We will continue to keep you informed on all of your favorite artists and their upcoming projects.
Earlier today, Kendrick Lamar added yet another captivating chapter to his beef with Drake that first began last month. Drake’s response track “Push Ups” just debuted in the top 20 of the Hot 100 earlier this week. Kendrick saw an otherwise uneventful Tuesday morning as the best time to surprise drop a response track to the song called “euphoria.” The track is more than six minutes and features almost exclusively on tearing Drake down through a variety of different disses. While there are numerous cutting bars and name drops fans have honed in on, one particular mistake has also gotten quite a bit of attention.
In one lyric from the song, Kendrick makes quite a hilarious mix up. “Am I battlin’ ghost or AI? N*gga feelin’ like Joel Osteen, Funny, he was in a film called “AI,” And my sixth sense tellin’ me to off him” a lyric from the song reads. Subsequently, attentive fans noticed right away that he says the wrong name in the track. He’s making a reference to Haley Joel Osment, who acted in the films AI and The Sixth Sense. It’s a sharply written bar referencing Drake’s use of AI to recreate Tupac and Snoop Dogg’s voice in his second Kendrick diss track. Unfortunately, Kendrick confuses Osment for controversial televangelist Joel Osteen. Fans who noticed the mistake quickly took to social media to point it out.
Elsewhere in the song, Kendrick makes no mistakes about who he’s discussing. He brings up Sexyy Red to make jokes about Drake’s sexuality. He brings up Gunna and references his snitching allegations. And he also mentions Pusha T, who Drake famously beefed with in 2018. Additionally, Kendrick even queried some from Push’s “Story Of Adidon” diss by taking shots at Drake’s fatherhood.
What do you think of Kendrick Lamar confusing Haley Joel Osment with Joel Osteen in his new diss track “euphoria?” How much do you think the mistake discounts the particular line it was included in? Let us know in the comment section below.
Latto has responded to fans labeling her a liar after her recent post about not trusting anyone who doesn’t use an electric toothbrush. She made the controversial remark in a post on Twitter, earlier this week, prompting plenty of debate between her fanbase.
“Latto, you [are] my fave, but why are you coming at us normal toothbrush people,” one user replied. Another countered with: “If you don’t replace your brush heads as often as you would a regular tooth brush then I don’t trust you.” Others took the comment even more seriously: “I can’t stand when people get money and start judging other people for things they’ve been doing for years. We are judging people for using a manual toothbrush now? If anything, I prefer a manual toothbrush to make sure I’m applying the same amount of pressure to each veneer, I mean tooth,” one Instagram user wrote.
LONDON, ENGLAND – JULY 07: (EDITORIAL USE ONLY) Latto performs during day one of Wireless Festival 2023 at Finsbury Park on July 07, 2023 in London, England. (Photo by Burak Cingi/Redferns)
Eventually, one user shared a picture of Latto using a regular toothbrush in a prior social media post. She fired back to the fan with the reply: “Ion trust nobody not even myself so jokes on yall smh.” The admission resulted in her fans sharing jokes in the replies. “Girl they take everything so serious now adays; smh these people ahahha,” one user complained. Check out the posts on Twitter below.
In other Latto news, she recently shared the single, “Sunday Service.” The track peaked at No. 100 on the US Billboard Hot 100. Many fans interpreted it as a diss aimed at Ice Spice, however, she denied that being the case while responding to Elliott Wilson on Twitter. Be on the lookout for further updates on HotNewHipHop.
Today, we got a Kendrick LamarDrake diss. The song is called “Euphoria,” and overall, it has set the hip-hop world on fire. Overall, this is what fans were expecting from a Kendrick diss track. It had been three weeks since the release of “Push Ups,” and fans were getting a bit worried. However, Lamar came through with a track that was well worth the wait. Fans and critics are still analyzing the bars, while also picking out their favorite verses. Clearly, Kendrick still has a grip on the culture, even if he isn’t always dropping albums.
On this new track, Kendrick throws some stray bars at quite a few people. In fact, there is one moment on the song where Lamar even talks about Gunna. “We ain’t gotta get personal, this a friendly fade, you should keep it that way/I know some shit about n****s that make Gunna Wunna look like a saint,” Lamar raps. It is a bar that comes a bit out of left field, and fans were curious about what Kendrick really meant here. That said, it appears as though Gunna has heard the track. He even offered up his reaction to the line on Twitter.
“Mannnn WASSAM ?!!” Gunna wrote. It was a simple response, albeit one that definitely got fans reacting. He immediately got some responses with fans telling him not to worry about it. At the end of the day, this feud is much bigger than him. Kendrick and Drake have been preparing for this moment, for ages at this stage. Only time will tell whether or not Drake decides to levy a response. After all, the Kendrick track was scathing and full of hate.
Let us know what you thought of the Kendrick Lamar Drake diss, in the comments section down below. Do you believe that this will be enough to claim victory in the feud? Do you believe that this was actually a weak response? Additionally, stay tuned to HNHH for the latest news and updates from around the music world. We will continue to keep you informed on all of your favorite artists and their upcoming projects.
Kendrick Lamar is done sending warning shots like he did on his “Like That” verse. This time he is bringing out weapons of mass destruction. After leaving many wondering where he was after back-to-back responses from Drake, he has come out nowhere to tell The Boy he is done playing around. Just hours ago, Kendrick Lamar put out a new diss track “euphoria” on his YouTube page exclusively (for now hopefully). On the six-minute clap back, he addresses “Push Ups” and “Taylor Made Freestyle” with beat switches and ruthless shots. Across the track, Lamar calls Drake a scammer, a fake Black person, a dead-beat dad, and plenty more.
It seems K-Dot wanted to make it clear this time that the ball is now back in Drake’s court. That appears to be true, especially with bars like these. “Yeah, f*** all that pushin’ P, let me see you push a T / You better off spinnin’ again on him, you think about pushin’ me?” Lamar raps. This is a direct reference to Drizzy’s long-standing feud with King Push. Many view as one of his biggest L’s in his career and one that he still holds to this day. The Story Of Adidon was a vicious attack on Drake’s character and life choices, which is a similar approach that Lamar took as well.
Essentially what Kendrick is saying here is that he needs to address that beef first before stepping to him. He also makes a clever reference to the time that Drake featured on Gunna’s “P power” and the song “pushin P.” Drake also used that popular catchphrase on his Her Loss track “Rich Flex.” “I’m steady pushin’ p, you n****s pushing PTSD.” This is a serious response from Lamar, and it will be interesting to see how this all plays out once again as the saga continues.
What are your thoughts on Kendrick Lamar referencing Pusha T on his new diss track “euphoria?” Was this the coldest bar on the song, why or why not? How long do you think we will have to wait before Drake responds to this? Who has the leg up in this battle right now? We would like to hear what you have to say, so be sure to leave your takes in the comments section. Additionally, always keep it locked in with HNHH for all of the latest news surrounding the Kendrick Lamar diss track, and Drake. Finally, stay with us for everything else going on around the music world.
Today, Kendrick Lamar“Euphoria” is the buzzing trend around social media. Overall, this is because “Euphoria” is the name of the diss track that Kendrick just launched at Drake. After weeks of waiting, fans were finally blessed with Lamar’s response to “Push Ups.” As you can imagine, the song is incredibly scathing. The song has numerous bars throughout that poke fun at Drake and his persona. Fans are declaring Lamar the winner right now, although there are still plenty of variables at play in regards to all of this.
Now that the song is out, fans are waiting to hear responses from those who are mentioned. Furthermore, fans are curious about how those involved in the feud are feeling. For instance, you have none other than Metro Boomin, who gave Lamar a platform to strike first on “Like That.” As you can see down below, Metro has officially weighed in on the song. However, he isn’t exactly giving you a lot of words. Instead, he spammed some laughing emojis to showcase his thoughts on all of this.
It is a pretty good response, and one that shows that Metro is, in fact, paying attention right now. The Kendrick response was a very well kept secret, all things considered. Fans had no idea it was going to come out today, on a Tuesday morning. It could have very well dropped over the weekend or even new music Friday. That said, fans are not going to complain. This is exactly what they wanted, as we now have a battle between rap’s two biggest artists. Only time will tell who will end up coming through with the win.
Let us know what you thought of “Euphoria” by Kendrick Lamar, in the comments section down below. Do you believe that this was a worthy response to “Push Ups?” Do you even think that this automatically gives Kendrick the win? Additionally, stay tuned to HNHH for the latest news and updates from around the music world. We will continue to keep you informed on all of your favorite artists and their upcoming projects.
(@TwelveBricks) April 30, 2024
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shit about to get messy 
