André 3000 has spoken out about the feud between Drake and Kendrick Lamar, while Three Stacks shared that he was disheartened when he looked back at the aftermath of the carnage.
“I became a little sad at some point,” he said Crack Magazine in a new interview. “In the early rap battles, there were kids in the park rapping against each other. But today, it’s not just people who rap. There are people with 100 employees. Livelihoods, empires, companies, deals are at stake – everything can be at stake.”
With rappers acting as brands – and in the case of Drake and Kendrick, worth hundreds of millions of dollars – the Outkast legend questions whether it’s worth the effort when there’s so much at stake in a battle. “If you’ve got nothing to lose, go for it,” he said. “But if I’ve already done it, I’m not sure it’s even worth it anymore.”
Drake expressed a similar sentiment on 2016’s “4PM in Calabasas,” which featured Drizzy denouncing Joe Budden, Diddy and others. “I’ve got a lot to lose, ’cause in every situation I’m the bigger artist/ I always gotta play it smarter,” he raps wittily about the readiness to fight in battle.
Elsewhere in the Crack Profil gave André 3000 his reaction to a shout-out from Kendrick Lamar for the explosive “Like That” featuring Future and Metro Boomin. “If he walk around with that stick, he ain’t André 3K,” rhymes K. Dot.
“As a 49-year-old rapper, you just love a shout-out,” the Atlanta artist responded. “But as a rapper, I walk around with that stick. So that was a reference to 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.'”
Three records that Lamar was involved with and that formed an integral part of the battle with Drake are still on the Billboard Hot 100. K. Dot’s “Not Like Us” is at No. 3, while “Like That” is at No. 18 in the Top 20. Even the disturbing “Euphoria” is still on the charts at No. 78.
As for Three Stacks, he will play nine sets over three days at the Blue Note Jazz Festival’s 2024 Black Radio Experience, which takes place August 30-September 1 at the Estate Wine Cave at the Meritage Resort & Spa in Napa, California.
