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“They write mean rhymes about each other” – Seth Rogen explains the Drake and Kendrick beef.
Seth Rogen has given a hilarious account of the ongoing rap battle between Drake and Kendrick Lamar that has everyone talking. Adding his perspective to the lyrical jabs between the two Hip Hop megastars Seth Rogen is one of the millions of fans who have followed the feud.
The rap beef which began in March, turned ugly this past week. As the battle dragged on, both Kendrick and Drake escalated the conflict to serious allegations of domestic abuse, infidelity, pedophilia, and cultural appropriation
The 42-year-old comedian was the main attraction at the Netflix Is A Joke festival in Los Angeles, California, on Tuesday, May 7. He paused during his Hollywood Bowl performance to discuss and gave his two cents view on what was happening.
“Allow me to explain”
“If you’re not a rap fan, allow me to explain,” he began. “There are two very famous rappers in Drake and Kendrick Lamar, and they’re in a fight right now. They are in a big fight with each other, and the way rappers fight with each other is they write mean rhymes about each other, which is an objectively funny way to fight with another person.
“I’ll walk you through the whole thing. It started with Drake, and he made a song about the other guy, where he was like, ‘You’re not as successful as I am.’ Started slow, started slow, and everyone’s like, ‘What’s the other guy going to say? What’s his retort going to be?’ “Kendrick, the other guy, he came back and he was like, ‘I hate the way you dress, man.’ That was his thing, he was like, ‘I don’t like the way you dress, dude,’ which would suck — I wouldn’t like that! I once had Joan Rivers‘ daughter tweet that she didn’t like my outfit and it hurt, so I can only image. But still, pretty tame on the grand scale of things you can say about another person in rhyme form.”
“It did not stop there. After that, things got pretty mean. Kendrick, he came back and he said to Drake, ‘You’re a bad father and you should be a registered sex offender.’ You could see Drake was not expecting that either! That changed the tone of the conversation pretty dramatically. “Drake was caught off guard, and he started writing raps, and his raps were like defensive now, all of a sudden, which is a funny thing to hear — you don’t hear defensive rapping that often; it’s usually pretty aggressive. “You don’t hear rap that’s like, ‘I am a good father … I should not be a registered sex offender.’ I would say as soon as you’re asserting in a rap song that you should not be a registered sex offender, you’ve lost the rap battle.”
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WATCH THE HILARIOUS TAKE HERE:
Seth Rogen explains the Kendrick Lamar vs. Drake rap battle and says, as soon as you start asserting in a rap song that you should not be a registered sex offender, you've lost the rap battle. pic.twitter.com/yBgXbycdH9
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