“Kendrick is too precise to just make a mistake like that, I think,” Osment said of the lyrics of “Euphoria,” which reference his films and Pastor Joel Osteen’s name.
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Haley Joel Osment comments on Kendrick Lamar possibly confusing him with a prominent pastor in his song “Euphoria.”
At the premiere of his latest film in Los Angeles Flash twiceOsment, 36, revealed that he heard Drake’s diss track – and believes that Lamar intended to use Joel Osteen’s name instead of his own.
When asked if he had been following the ongoing feud between Drake and Lamar, the Sixth sense The former student told the Associated Press he was – “just a little bit.” Or rather, “It’s in my text message inbox,” he added.
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Haley Joel Osment doesn’t think Kendrick Lamar made a mistake in the Drake diss song “Euphoria” in which his name was confused with that of pastor Joel Osteen. The star of “The Sixth Sense” and “AI” will next be seen in “Blink Twice.” pic.twitter.com/icVaZjEDYE
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In “Euphoria,” Lamar mentions Osment and Osteen. Sort of. “Am I fighting a ghost or AI? N—- feel like Joel Osteen,” he raps on the track. “Funny, he was in a movie called AI / And my sixth sense told me to kill him.”
The listeners were confused because neither AI Artificial Intelligence or Sixth sense “The Last Man” stars Osteen, a 61-year-old televangelist. However, both films feature a younger Osment.
In the past, both Osteen and Drake have been accused of using ghostwriters for their work, so Lamar may have been joking, as it’s hard to say who wrote the lyrics to Drake’s diss tracks about him.
The actor told AP he was “filming in Ireland” when the Drake diss first appeared on April 30, and his phone was blowing up with messages about the song.
“I got about a hundred texts in the middle of the night,” Osment recalled. “I just thought: What’s going on?”
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As for the actual lyrics, Osment said he thought the Pulitzer Prize-winning rapper was “too precise” to have made such a big mistake.
“I mean, I don’t know for sure and I don’t assume he knows my exact name,” he continued. “But from what I’ve heard people talk about it and certain analyses I’ve read about it, I believe my name and the other guy’s name were intentionally mixed up.”
“I think Kendrick is too precise to make a mistake like that,” he added.
“Euphoria” was Lamar’s response to Drake’s “Taylor Made Freestyle,” in which the Canadian rapper called Lamar a “coward.”
The now-deleted diss also included controversial AI-generated vocals from Snoop Dogg and the late Tupac Shakur.
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