2024 was the year in which all of us obsessed over the Kendrick Lamar and Drake beef, whether it was for five minutes or five-plus months. It was a massive hip-hop moment, so it’s only natural that the culture would speak on it at length. Fat Joe recently reflected on the battle’s overall success, impact, and longevity during his latest appearance on Big Boy’s Neighborhood. While he emphasized K.Dot’s dubs over the 6ix God’s, you can apply this to both.
“Yeah, um, if I’m being honest with you, I wasn’t watching it so closely at the beginning,” Fat Joe said of the Kendrick Lamar and Drake beef. “And then when ‘They Not Like Us’ – ‘They Not Like Us’ is a ‘Lean Back.’ It is a ‘Go, shawty!‘ You got the deal with that record for the next 50 years. There’s no way around it. He done f***ed around and made a hit. Nah, nah, nah, that’s a ‘You can find me In Da Club,’ like, ‘They not like us,’ that’s forever. It’s crazy. It’s also the energy, you know what I’m saying? You can’t dismiss the energy. It was coming up to that, boom!
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Fat Joe Reflects On The Kendrick Lamar & Drake Battle
“And then, this new album’s incredible, too,” Fat Joe continued. “This new album is incredible. And, it’s just, it’s too much energy. This is like… You know, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, when I was in the game, they was selling 30 million records, right? Like, s**t I didn’t even understand. It felt like the stadium would break, right? I used to go with them. And then they had, like, groups like Mo Thugs, guys that we never heard, that were going, like, five platinum too because they was affiliated with Bone Thugs at the time of that energy.
“And so, that’s that energy Kendrick got right now,” Fat Joe concluded. “His cousin could come out and sell some s**t. [Baby Keem] was already in play, he’s known. Right now, Auntie Kendrick could come out, Auntie, spits ten bars and her s**t be multi-platinum right now. It’s just the energy.” Even though the victor earns the spoils of war, both warring MCs deserve some credit.
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