Father John Misty, Lil Wayne, Nas, and Snoop Dogg Reply to Kendrick Lamar’s Shock New Album GNX

With mainly no warning, Kendrick Lamar launched his new album, GNX, on Friday, and he caught all people’s consideration from the bounce. On the album’s first tune, “Wacced Out Murals,” Lamar mentions three veteran rappers by title, and every has responded to the name-checks, as Stereogum notes.

First, Lamar raps, “Used to bump Tha Carter III, I held my Rollie chain proud/Irony, I feel my laborious work let Lil Wayne down,” and that led Lil Wayne to put up on X, “Man wtf I do?!” He continued, “I simply be chillin & dey nonetheless kome 4 my head. Let’s not take kindness for weak point. Let this big sleep. I encourage u all. Nobody actually needs destruction,not even me however I shall destroy if disturbed. On me. Love.”

Subsequent, Lamar says, “Snoop posted ‘Taylor Made,’ I prayed it was the edibles/I couldn’t imagine it, it was solely proper for me to let it go.” Snoop Dogg—who responded, in April, to Drake’s “Taylor Made Freestyle” with some incredulity—took Lamar’s lyrics in stride, writing on X, “Ok dot new album GNX 💥🔥🔥🔥🔥🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤 It was the edibles 🤦🏾 😆👊🏿 west west king 🔥🎶💫.”

Lastly, Lamar was extra reverent of Nas on “Wacced Out Murals,” rapping, “Received the Tremendous Bowl and Nas the one one congratulate me.” Nas responded immediately, “All the time impressed by my brother KL. Preserving the essence of this shit alive and on the forefront. Salute King!”

There’s another musician who has rather a lot to say about GNX regardless of not being talked about wherever on the album, and that’s Father John Misty, who, one way or the other, has, kind of, the identical album launch schedule as Lamar. After some posts on X (“not now I’m furiously scribbling my seeming response to,” “there goes my #1”), Father John Misty took issues a step additional with a “diss monitor.” It’s probably not a diss tune, however “God’s Trash,” which was lately featured on a Bandcamp-exclusive reside album. However that hasn’t stopped Father John Misty from playfully framing it as a Lamar retort. Discover his “diss” on Instagram.