TDE Punch has commented on Kanye West‘s recent comments about old signee, Kendrick Lamar.
Playboi Carti finally dropped his long-awaited third album ‘Music’ last Friday (March 14). Lamar featured on three songs: he did ad-libs for ‘Mojo Jojo’, rapped a full verse on ‘Good Credit’ and helped with the chorus for ‘Good Credit’.
Hours after the release, Kanye West (now known as Ye) tweeted his thoughts on Lamar being on ‘Music’. “I don’t like Kendrick Lamar’s music,” he wrote in all caps. “He raps very good, but I didn’t need to hear him on Carti[‘s] album.”
Roughly 20 minutes after Ye’s tweet, Terrence “Punch” Henderson Jr. – the president of Lamar’s old label, Top Dawg Entertainment – tweeted, asking: “Aye… What’s up with this Kanye West n***a??”
Ye says he doesn’t like Kendrick’s music and says he raps well but didn’t need to be on Carti’s album pic.twitter.com/XXLB1Mf093
— Akademiks TV (@AkademiksTV) March 14, 2025
West’s tweet confused many fans as he has recently praised Lamar. Ye congratulated Lamar after the latter won five awards at this year’s Grammys for his Drake diss track, ‘Not Like Us’. The Chicagoan posted a photo of the rapper holding his awards on his Instagram.
The rapper-producer also said Lamar’s Super Bowl headline show was his “favourite since the Michael Jackson era”: “It was super simple, the flag was fresh. When they did [‘HUMBLE.’], the way people’s heads were moving. I was like, shook. This is like, super fresh.
“The man’s voice control and all that. And you know, of course, they built up the controversy on whether he’s going to do [‘Not Like Us’]. And at the end, I saw people saying this is the worst Halftime Show and I’m just like ‘everybody I talked to in real life said this is the best Halftime Show’.”
Kanye speaks on Kendrick Lamar’s #SUPERBOWL Halftime Show 👀
“I really loved the show. It was my favorite show since the Michael Jackson era.” pic.twitter.com/A7opyTrwTs
— NFR Podcast (@nfr_podcast) February 10, 2025
Back in February, in an episode of The Download podcast with Justin LaBoy, Ye was asked whether Lamar “killed” Drake in their infamous feud last April – to which he replied: “For now.”
“Drake added something to the algorithm’s top frequency. He [is] at an advanced level,” he continued. “Future advances, and now Kendrick is now advancing the frequency and now you have to [adapt]. It’s like when Twista came out, there were rappers that didn’t learn.”
Ye added: “If you don’t learn – as just a professional rapper, as a sport – what Kendrick is doing, you might be wiped out.”
Charlamagne has speculated that Ye is “envious” of Lamar’s current success and is “seeking attention”. He said: “[Ye] wishes this was him because Kendrick is having a moment for being a prolific artist who took out his number one opp; Drake. Kanye wishes that was him in this moment, so he’s been doing all these antics for attention all week because he’s trying to get people to do exactly what they’re doing right now, and that’s talking about him.”
Ye is currently involved in a lot of controversy regarding his use of racist and anti-Semitic imagery and language. Last month, he called himself a “Nazi” – which he later retracted – and attempted to sell T-shirts with a swastika on them through his Yeezy website. More recently, West asked jewellers to make him a chain with a swastika pendant.
In other news, Ye is still embroiled in legal problems. Ye revealed he is ready to go “to war” with ex-wife Kim Kardashian over the trademark for his eldest daughter’s name, North West, so he can release a “Diddy song” with her on it.
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