Big Sean, Kendrick Lamar 'Control:' Wale Would Be Offended' If He Wasn't Included, He Says [VIDEO]
While some other rappers were angered by Kendrick Lamar's verse on Big Sean's new song Control, Wale felt otherwise.
The rapper said he would have been hurt if his name was not included on the track.
"I would've been offended if my name wasn't in that s---," he told TMZ on Wednesday. "I would've felt a way if my name wasn't in the verse."
On the track, Lamar called out Wade as well as J. Cole, Pusha T, Meek Millz, ASAP Rocky, Big KRIT, Drake, Tyler the Creator and Mac Miller. Lamar even added Big Sean and Jay Electronica to the list, both of whom rapped on the track with him. Big Sean is also the rapper behind Control, having the song featured on his upcoming album titled Hall of Fame.
"I'm trying to make sure your core fans never heard of you," he rapped about them. "They don't want to hear not one more noun or verb from you."
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The Compton native crowned himself one of the best rappers in the game along with with Jay Z, Nas, Eminem and Andre 3000. Wale, however, disputed Lamar's self-proclamation.
"I still feel like I'm the best rapper on the planet," he told the website.
Sean "Diddy" Combs also responded to Lamar's verse, but he focused only on the fact that the rapper called himself the "King of New York." The 43-year-old posted a photo on Instagram in which he and Jay Z, two New York natives, are sitting next to each other and laughing uncontrollably. The photo has the subhead, "And then Kendrick said, 'I'm the king of New York.'"
"Kendrick got y'all n----- takin y'all time now! This is good ! What y'all gonna do now? Haaaaa lol lets go!" Diddy wrote as the photo's caption.
Big Sean explained that the controversy behind the song is good for hip-hop.
"I haven't seen a hip-hop song stir up this much excitement in years really," he told Rap-Up TV on Tuesday. "It's cool that hip-hop can do that without it being violent the way it used to be."
