Kendrick Lamar's "Control" Verse Wasn't A Jab At The Kings Of New York

Kendrick Lamar has no beef with any of the “kings of New York” and that wasn’t even what his somewhat controversial verse on Big Sean’s Control was even about, the rapper himself says in an upcoming interview with Power 106. Lamar says that he did not expect his contribution to the Big Sean track to attract that much attention, but to be fair with so many names dropped in there, it’s no wonder the media took the bait and started looking for the rift between Lamar and his fellow East Coasters. The inflammatory line – or one of them anyway – goes: ”I got love for you all but I'm tryna murder you n****s”

Hear an excerpt from the interview below.

That’s only after Lamar raps in an earlier verse: “I'm the king of New York/ King of the Coast, one hand, I juggle them both” Nevertheless, Lamar says that he never actually hailed himself as the “king of New York”

And that, in fact, the people who needed to get his meaning, did. "The irony of that line is that the people who actually understood it and got it were the actual kings of New York, you know, me sitting down with them this past week, and them understanding, he said.