For the record, Kendrick Lamar has been outshining artists on their own records for the best part of three years. Let me just point that out before anything else.
I'm sure by now you've all heard Kendrick Lamar's verse on the otherwise forgettable Big Sean track "Control". The reason this was left off his new album is clear. No one's checking for Big Sean. Not really. Plus the fact that Kendrick's verse would have eclipsed Big Sean's whole album. Better to let it stand alone I'm guessing. I won't even get in to the phoned in and boring verse from Jay Electronica.
A lot of people are confused by his "I'm the king of New York" statement and the slew of peers he named on the track. Why do people think he dissed them? Did people actually listen to what he said? He basically acknowledges everyone mentioned but let's them know that he's out to take everyone's fan base. To 'murder' them lyrically.
Listen to Peter Rosenberg explain it better in this clip of "The Realness" on Hot 97. Cypha Sounds points out that everyone who WASN'T mentioned should be the ones to take offense. Truth.
Here's "Control" if you missed it. Kendrick goes in second.
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