Future and Metro Boomin‘s new album WE DON’T TRUST YOU is out today, and among the 17-song tracklist is "Like That,” featuring Kendrick Lamar in absolute chest-out, no-bulls*** mode, taking shots at Drake and J.Cole.
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Coming out strong with the standout verse, to assure he's not playing games, Kendrick raps, “These n****s talkin' out of they necks / Don’t pull no coffin out of your mouth, I'm way too paranoid for a threat.”
The Drake and Cole diss comes later with, "Yeah, get up with me, f*** sneak dissing / 'First Person Shooter,' I hope they came with three switches.” Yup, no mistaking that…
And if you were still unsure if Kendrick was just playing around, the rapper went on to say, "Think I won't drop the location? I still got PTSD / Motherf***the Big 3, n****, it's just big me.”
Considering the close proximity in time, this is very highly just a coincidence, but Kendrick’s verse arrived less than a day after Big Sean dropped “Whole Time (Freestyle),” on which he references the rap triumvirate fans have dubbed the "big three”— Drake, Kendrick Lamar and J. Cole.
"I think where I lack most as an artist is consistency / I just haven’t had the energy to compete with enemies / Or y’all so-called Bigger Three.”
So while the internet might be swirling about Kendrick stealing Sean’s thunder. Well, FACTS, but let’s keep it 100, that isn’t what this is about. What it is however is a motor-mouthed response to J.Cole’s “First Person Shooter" verse, where he raps, "Love when they argue the hardest MC / Is it K-Dot? Is it Aubrey? Or me? / We the big three like we started a league, but right now, I feel like Muhammad Ali.”
For his verse, Drake preferred to pretend Kendrick wasn’t part of the equation. "Who the GOAT? Who you b****es really rooting for? / Like a kid that act bad from January to November, n****, it's just you and Cole." Drake also compared himself to Michael Jackson, rapping, "What the f***, bro? I'm one away from Michael / N****, beat it, n***a, beat it, what?"
So obviously Kendrick wasn’t finished there, his immediate next bars go — “n****, bum, what? I'm really like that / And your best work is a light pack / N***a, Prince outlived Mike Jack’ / n****, bum, 'fore all your dogs gettin' buried / That’s a K with all these nines, he gon' see Pet Sematary n****, bum."
So just to keep score, in response to Drake and J. Cole's collab "First Person Shooter,” Lamar mentions the track by name, word plays Drake's last album, For All The Dogs, and then compares himself to Prince to Drake's Michael Jackson.
Listen to "Like That" below.