Since the game is moving pretty slowly at this point, I'd like to periodically break the silence with some Real World Battle Rap News!
So one of the biggest newcomers in the past couple years to the Rap Game is named Kendrick Lamar. He raps about typical rap things; growing up surrounded by poverty, drugs, alcohol and gang violence, women, basketball, skateboarding, Now and Later Candies, dragons, asphyxiation, Saddam Hussein, etc.
He was guest featured in a newly released song by rapper Big Sean, where he laid out a battle verse out of nowhere against...well, everyone else.
"New niggas just new niggas, don't get involved/
...
I'm usually homeboys with the same niggas I'm rhymin' wit/
But this is hip-hop and them niggas should know what time it is/
And that goes for Jermaine Cole, Big KRIT, Wale/
Pusha T, Meek Millz, A$AP Rocky, Drake/
Big Sean, Jay Electron', Tyler, Mac Miller/
I got love for you all but I'm tryna murder you niggas/
Tryna make sure your core fans never heard of you niggas/
They dont wanna hear not one more noun or verb from you niggas"
Well damn, all those people, and all the "new niggas" in their entirety. He attacked people who were on the same song as he was. That's unprecedented.And then he goes on further with a hot extended metaphor.
"What is competition? I'm tryna raise the bar high/
Who tryna jump and get it? You better off tryna skydive/
Out the exit window of 5 G5’s with 5 grand/
With your granddad as the pilot he drunk as fuck tryna land/
With the hand full of arthritis and popping prosthetic leg/
Bumpin Pac in the cockpit so the shit that pops in his head/
Is an option of violence, someone heard the stewardess said/
That your parachute is a latex condom hooked to a dread."
Shit. Wow. If that hit me I'd be dead. But I'm not a Rapper in the game, and these guys are. So, now they're all doing what they're obliged to do; hit Kendrick right back.
Several of the artists that Kendrick called out by name have already put out Diss Responses/Counterattacks, and more are in the works. In addition, the so-called "new niggas" have been coming at Kendrick like crazy. I'm look at these responses, and I don't even know who half of these rappers are. So far, Responses have been made by:
Joell Ortiz
Shizzy Sixx
B.o.B.
King Los
Mickey Factz
Fred The Godson
Iman Shumpert
Lupe Fiasco
Astro
Mysonne
KR
Cassidy
Dope Francis
JR Writer
Ransom
Kevin Hart
LeBron James
Eminem
Jay-Z
Nas
Tupac Shakur
Biggie Smalls
The Wu-Tang Clan
Skrillex
DeadMau5
The Jackson 5
Nirvana
Led Zeppelin
Paul McCartney
Billy Joel
Frank Sinatra
Beethoven
Mozart
Tchaikovsky
Barack Obama
George Bush
Bill Clinton
Hulk Hogan
Stalin
Billy Mays
Captain Crunch
Lauren Faust
Genghis Khan
Alexander The Great
Sun Tzu
Geronimo
ToadyOne
And you. That's right. You.
This is a massive event in Hip-Hop history, so many Responses have never been made to one song.
So, if any of you are actually aspiring rappers, go out there and Diss Kendrick Lamar. I'll be cheering you on.