DaBaby said he rejected a mystery rapper's proposal to start a fake beef with him.

Jonathan Lyndale Kirk, professionally known as DaBaby, recently appeared on "The Big Podcast with Shaq" and opened up about cancel culture and rap beefs.

During the interview, he told Shaq that a mystery rapper got excited seeing the attention the recent rap beef between J. Cole and Kendrick Lamar was getting, so he allegedly asked him to start a fake rap feud with him.

"I got a call from a certain rapper. It's like a lyricist, too. I'm sure you all know him if I say his name. Like, 1000% you all know him, right? This [was] before J. Cole apologized, matter of fact," he shared.

"He saying, 'Man, all the back and forth between J. Cole and Kendrick got me fired up, Bro. I think, like, we should diss each other. You know, we cool behind closed doors,'" he added, notably referring to the unnamed rapper as a "he."

"'We cool, we know we cool, but, Bro, I just feel like it would just go crazy and yada yada yada...' And I told him, 'It's a little more personal with me, like... I'm not about to say certain things about you if I don't really feel a certain way about you.'"

The "BOP" rapper said he rejected the fake beef proposal "out of respect" for his co-rapper.

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DaBaby performs onstage during the Power 105.1'S Powerhouse 2019 presented by AT&T at Prudential Center on October 26, 2019 in Newark, New Jersey. Brad Barket/Getty Images for 105.1

"To me dissing somebody is like not me because I can't see a person like finding every which way to belittle me, make me some type of way, offend me, and then still coexist on a respectable level," he explained.

"[In a diss track], you gotta disrespect me. You got to. And I got to disrespect you. And I'm not going to disrespect nobody that I got respect for."

Shaq then asked him what he would do if Shaq Records offered him and the mystery rapper $20 million each for a fake beef.

"Oh, we doing it. I'd have that done today. I do it right... You got a mic? Play the beat. I'll do this right now. I'll make it right now about him and call him like, 'Boy, Shaq now said they got $20 million, but they gonna give me $15 million,'" he quipped before laughing.


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