Powered by Life+Times, Andreas Hale followed Kendrick Lamar, ScHoolboy Q, Ab-Soul and Jay Rock’s journey to the Budweiser Made In America music festival. Before it premieres, here’s a sneak peek.
Joe finally puts his bars where his tweets are with a response to Kendrick Lamar’s “Control” verse. Needless to say, it sounds like Joey has a chip on his shoulders.
Shortly after Papoose’s “Control” freestyle hit the net, he called Hot 97’s morning drive. He says Rosenberg is biased against Kendrick and then throws shots at Miss Info and yours truly. Say what?!
These freestyles are becoming harder to control. Cassidy jumps into the fray with a response to Kendrick’s verbal assault.
Still no response from the victims yet, but others continue to step up. Mickey Factz is the latest New Yorker with a reply and adds the rest of Kendrick’s Black Hippy crew in into the mix.
Hours after giving the unfortunate “#DopeFrancis“, Lupe drops the second part of his “SLR (Super Lupe Rap“, which is also his response to Kendrick Lamar.
Kendrick has more than enough MCs wrapped under “Control”. Tonight, King Los grabs ahold of the instrumental and gives is a good run of his own.
Oh, you thought it was finished? Fred The Godson steps to his fellow Freshman with a response to “Control”. Gold star for the Breaking Bad sample in the beginning.
What about Bizzy Crook, Kendrick? While listening to Kendrick’s verse last night in Quad Studios, the Miami upstart questions why K-Dot didn’t reference him in his diatribe. 16 ain’t enough.
Rap game’s outta control. Less than 24 hours after Kendrick Lamar proclaimed to be “King Of New York,” Brooklyn’s Joell Ortiz returns fire with a freestyle of his own.
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