Haley Joel Osment is sharing his response to being referenced by Kendrick Lamar.
The actor unwittingly joined Lamar’s charting rap beef in opposition to Drake when he dropped “Euphoria” in April, and though Lamar confusingly referred to him as megachurch pastor Joel Osteen within the tune, Osment — like numerous different followers — thinks the mix-up was deliberate.
“I was shooting in Ireland when all that happened, and I got like a hundred texts in the middle of the night,” the previous youngster star informed The Related Press in a crimson carpet interview for his newest movie, “Blink Twice,” on Sunday. “And I was like, ‘What is going on?’”
“I don’t know for sure, and I’m not going to assume that he knows my exact name,” he continued. “But the way I’ve heard people talk about that and certain analysis that I’ve read about it, I think that it’s an intentional scrambling of my name and that other guy’s name, because Kendrick’s too precise to just make a mistake like that, I think.”
Lamar and Drake had thrown refined jabs at one another for years earlier than lastly squaring off when Drake dropped “Taylor Made Freestyle” on his Instagram account in April and used synthetic intelligence to generate the voices of Snoop Dogg and the late Tupac Shakur to hurl insults at Lamar.
Lamar then responded with “Euphoria,” the primary of 4 diss tracks in opposition to Drake, and rapped, “Am I battlin’ ghost or AI / Ni**a feelin’ like Joel Osteen / Funny, he was in a film called ‘A.I.’ / And my sixth sense tellin’ me to off him.”
Not like Osteen, Osment truly starred in 2001′s “A.I. Artificial Intelligence” by Steven Spielberg, in addition to 1999′s “The Sixth Sense” by M. Evening Shyamalan, which Lamar additionally referenced in his follow-up to “Euphoria,” “Not Like Us,” opening the tune with Osment’s traditional line: “I see dead people.”
Whereas some thought of the couplet a obvious misstep, others argued Lamar deliberately mentioned Osteen to counsel that Drake has a equally opportunistic disposition and that his fabricated picture makes a mockery of the tradition he income from.
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Lamar has been topped the winner within the feud because the launch of “Not Like Us,” with the monitor reportedly changing into the most-streamed diss monitor on Spotify.
