Osment’s sixth sense tells him never to question K. Dot.
Haley Joel Osment rose to fame after seeing dead things, so maybe he saw Drake’s chances to defeat Kendrick Lamar in their rap feud after Lamar released “Euphoria.”
The first of Lamar’s four scathing diss tracks, “Euphoria,” contained a reference to Osment’s roles in The sixth sense And AI Artificial Intelligence, However, Lamar identified him as Joel Osteen, the 61-year-old televangelist.
However, Osment believes the confusion was intentional.
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Kendrick Lamar, Haley Joel Osment, Drake
“I mean, I don’t know exactly and I don’t assume he knows my exact name,” Osment said. to the AP“But from what I’ve heard people talk about it and from certain analyses I’ve read about it, I believe my name was intentionally confused with the other guy’s name.”
“I think Kendrick is too precise to make a mistake like that,” he added.
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
— AP Entertainment (@APEntertainment) 11 August 2024
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Lamar released “Euphoria” in late April in response to Drake’s “Taylor Made Freestyle,” in which the Canadian rapper uses artificial intelligence to imitate Tupac Shakur and Snoop Dogg. Drake was forced to remove the song from social media and streaming services after being threatened with legal action by Shakur’s estate.
In “Euphoria,” Lamar raps, “Am I fighting a ghost or an AI? / N—- I feel like Joel Osteen / Funny, he was in a movie called AI / And my sixth sense is telling me to kill him.”
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But according to rapper Rosetta Stone’s online website, Genius.com, the Osteen-Osment confusion could be a “play on the idea that he doesn’t know who he’s fighting.” The website points out that Osteen was impersonated by an AI and that he has also been accused of using a ghostwriter. And of course, Osment famously said, “I see dead people” in The sixth senseso “Kendrick, like Osment’s character, fights ghosts.”
This is the kind of wordplay that wins Pulitzer Prizes. Or maybe K. Dot just made a mistake and refused to admit it. Either way, well played.
Read the original article on Entertainment Weekly.
