André 3000 has offered his thoughts on the beef between Kendrick Lamar and Drake — and does not appear to be the biggest fan.
Speaking to Crack Magazine about the high-profile feud, the OutKast legend admitted that the battle between two of his favorite rappers made him “sad.”
“I got a little sad, at a certain point,” he admitted. “In early rap battles, you had kids in the park rapping against each other. But it’s not just people rapping now. You got people with 100 employees. You have livelihoods, empires, companies, deals — all of it can be jeopardized.
“If you don’t have anything to lose, sure, go for it. But if I already made it, I’m not sure it’s even worth it any more.”
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Despite not enjoying the feud, 3 Stacks enjoyed Kendrick shouting him out on Future and Metro Boomin‘s “Like That,” where he rapped: “If he walk around with that stick, it ain’t André 3K.”
“As a 49-year-old rapper, you’re just happy to get a shoutout. But as a rapper, I’ve noticed myself walking around with this stick,” he told the publication. “So it was a line for me, too, and I was trying to find a way to use it. But Kendrick used it, so I had to say ‘Yeah, he got it.’”
André 3000 isn’t alone in his ambivalence towards the beef. Questlove previously called out Drake and Kendrick Lamar for the salacious nature of their diss songs.
“Nobody won the war,” he wrote on Instagram during the height of the feud. “This wasn’t about skill. This was a wrestling match level mudslinging and takedown by any means necessary — women & children (& actual facts) be damned.
“Same audience wanting blood will soon put up ‘rip’ posts like they weren’t part of the problem. Hip Hop truly is dead.”
Challenging both rappers to step their game up, morally speaking, The Roots drummer added in the caption: “Here We Are Now…Entertain us?”
The feud saw a number of wild accusations get thrown about by both men, with Kendrick accusing Drake of being a pedophile and a drug addict who is also hiding an 11-year-old daughter.
In turn, Drizzy claimed that K. Dot physically abused his longtime partner Whitney Alford and suggested that one of the couple’s children actually belonged to Kendrick’s business partner Dave Free.
None of the allegations have been backed up with evidence.
