Father John Misty, Lil Wayne, Nas and Snoop Dogg react to Kendrick Lamar’s surprise new album GNX

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Without any warning, Kendrick Lamar released his new album, GNXFriday, and he grabbed everyone’s attention from the jump. On the album’s first song, “Wacced Out murals,” Lamar mentions three veteran rappers by name, and each has responded to the namecheck, which Stereo gum notes.

First, Lamar raps, “Slide to bump Tha Carter IIII kept my Rollie chain proud/Irony I think my hard work failed Lil Wayne,” prompting Lil Wayne to post X“Man what am I doing?!” He continued: “I’m just chill and I still get in my head. Let’s not take kindness for weakness. Let this giant sleep. I’m begging you all. No one really wants destruction, not even me, but I will destroy if I being disturbed. On me. Love.”

Next, Lamar says, “Snoop posted ‘Taylor Made,’ I prayed it was the edible stuff/I couldn’t believe it, it was only right for me to let it go.” Snoop Dogg — who responded in April to Drake’s “Taylor Made Freestyle” with some disbelief — took Lamar’s lyrics in stride and wrote on X“K dot new album GNX It was the edible stuff west west king .”

Finally, Lamar was more deferential to Nas on “Wacced Out Murals,” rapping, “Won the Super Bowl and Nas is the only one congratulating me.” Nose replied today, “Always inspired by my brother KL. Keeping the essence of this shit alive and on the cutting edge. Hail the King!”

There is one more musician who has a lot to say about GNX despite not being mentioned anywhere on the album and it being Father John Misty who somehow has, more or less, same album release schedule like Lamar. After some posts on X (“not now as I furiously scribble my apparent answer on,” “there goes my #1”), Father John Misty took things a step further with a “diss track”. It’s not really a diss song, but “God’s trash“, which was recently shown on a Bandcamp-exclusive live album. But that hasn’t deterred Father John Misty legend frame it seam a Lamar retort. Find his “diss” on Instagram.

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