Father John Misty has jokes and answers after Kendrick Lamar on album release day

Father John Misty saw through all the jokes and conspiracy theories on Friday (November 22) about how his album release schedule has been eerily syncronized with Kendrick Lamar's music for the past 12 years, and he responded in the only way he knows how: with diss track and jokes.

OK, not a diss track in the Drake sense, but rather the first wide release of the shaggy folk rocker “God's Plan,” which was originally released on Bandcamp last month and which fans happily suggested was a soft rock that launched into the Pulitzer Prize-winning MC. FJM uploaded it to his Instagram on Saturday with no commentary and lyrics that didn't provide much of a direct connection to Lamar. “A man's life, God's trash/ Ain't no law but the old law, baby/ Little one, nothing dies/ Said by a kamikaze with a donkey/ Year zero in the summer,” FJM sings on the track. reposted it on X, adding three coffin emojis.

Comments did the heavy lifting: “the heart part 7,” one fan wrote in a joking reference to Lamar’s new track “Heart Pt. 6” (the same response to rival Drake’s diss track “The Heart Pt. 6” for Lamar), with another adding, “Kendrick diss track?” and a third admitting, “A Kendrick FJM beef is something I'd say I could only have imagined in a fever dream and yet here we are. Life is beautiful guys.” Leaning into the fake beef, commenters also questioned why Lamar has been “really quiet since this post,” warning “you have 24 hours to respond” and asking “@kendricklamar are you going to let this go?”

Fans immediately knew the meaning of the post, considering sleuths did the math and figured out that Father John and K.Dot have released new albums in the same year for more than a decade, including 2012, 2015, 2017, 2018 and 2022 — though not on the same day — until now.

On Friday, Lamar dropped the instant classic GNX without warning, stealing some thunder from FJM's new LP, Mahamasana. Misty got the joke, writing to X on Friday, “Not now I am furiously writing my apparent answer“by a strange coincidence, summation“It's ok only other times it happened was in 2012, 2015, 2017 and 2022.” He also showed he had a good sense of humor about the unbalanced chart competition, writing, “Hmm, how do I tell them my albums don't chart.”

Tweets and singing aside, FJM had a little more fun with the Freaky Friday action by reposting DJ Bean pulped cover with the artwork from the two male LPs and a second one he was on It was photographed in Kendrick's car. Even Misty's label, Sub Pop Records, got in on the act, putting one up editing the cover on the singer's album with Lamar DIME. font.

The eternally arch, laconic Misty took the whole thing, though Lil Wayne seemed to respond to a lyrical reference to GNX's opening track “waced out murals” with some heat. In the song, Lamar addresses his love for Wayne's classic Carter III album and wonders if his hard work — which includes landing the 2025 Super Bowl halftime show in Weezy's hometown of New Orleans next year — had “let down” the fellow MC.

“Man I do?” Wayne wrote in his response to X. “I'm just relaxed and still in my head. Let us not mistake kindness for weakness. Let this giant sleep. please everyone No one really wants destruction, not even me, but I will destroy if they bother me. On me. Love.”

Listen to FJM's “God's Trash” below.