TDE founder Top Dawg talked about Kendrick Lamar's latest album GNXsuggesting that rivals may not want to deal with the hot rapper.
“Dot is a dangerous man right now,” said Anthony “Top Dawg” Tiffith His Instagram Story. “Everything I thought he would be at 16 is here now. Everyone get down. I promise you.”
This proclamation came shortly after Lil Wayne's tweet about the Compton rapper mentioning him on the intro track “wacced out murals,” in which Lamar raps, “Used to bump Carter IIII kept my Rollie chain proud/Irony, I think my hard work let Lil Wayne down,” in reference to the New Orleans rapper and his friends being upset that he was “snobbed” from being a Super Bowl headliner in his city.
In response, Wayne tweeted, “Man what am I doing?! I'm just relaxed and not in my head yet. 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.” Some fans are suggesting that Top Dawg's new message may be related to Weezy's response.
Top Dawg has been one of Kendrick's mentors since the beginning, and even after his protégé decided to strike out on his own to form pgLang with former TDE president Dave Free, the two continue to support each other. another. Top was in the “Not Like Us” video in response to Drake's claims on “Push Ups” that the label executive was blackmailing his former artist, and Lamar mentioned it in “heart pt. 6” before admitting that it eventually evolved into he wants to be his own boss.
“Top used to record me when I was poor,” he began. “And now we're at the round table for what he assures me/ I guess my motivation was a longing for independence/ I poured what I had left into the family business/ Now it's for Kendrick, I want to evolve, put my skill set as a Black executive.”
Speaking of Kendrick the music executive. Artist and his cousin Baby Keem is expected to release a new album. At least that's according to one of Keem's frequent collaborators, producer Scott Bridgeway republication the NFR Podcast stressing that he produced quite a few tracks on GNX, simply saying, “us too.”
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