Kendrick Lamar has been the topic of numerous rumors over the previous few years, and Terrace Martin has added gas to the hearth by seemingly confirming the he’s cooking up new materials with the MC.
On Friday (Might 31), Martin tweeted: “I’ve been locked in with Roddy Ricch creating one thing particular./ The Navy album.”
A fan subsequently responded to the publish to ask for updates about Ok.Dot, asking: “Feels like an enormous W. However who’s locked in with Dot now?”
Quoting the question, the producer and multi-instrumentalist answered with out sharing too many particulars: “All of us.”
Feels like an enormous W. However who’s locked in with Dot now?
— Ok Duck (@boogeyManKDot) Might 31, 2024
All of us https://t.co/bPSKGGUp7c
— Terrace Martin (@terracemartin) Might 31, 2024
Martin was, in fact, a significant a part of the crew that created Lamar’s 2015 basic To Pimp a Butterfly, alongside Sounwave, Flying Lotus, Robert Glasper, Thundercat, Kamasi Washington, Robert “Sput” Searight, and plenty of extra.
In different information, Kendrick has been closing in on Drake’s streaming Spotify stats because of their current rap feud.
Per information shared by Chartmetric, Drizzy had a powerful lead out of the gate with the J. Cole-assisted “First Particular person Shooter” final 12 months, however the Compton native rapidly caught up together with his look on Metro Boomin and Future‘s “Like That” in March.
Each cuts have generated over 300 million streams, with the 6 God holding a slight lead at round 319 million to Kendrick’s 309 million.
The following trade was Drake’s “Push Ups,” which prompted “Euphoria” by Kung Fu Kenny in return — the latter holds the lead on this spherical with 135.3 million streams over its competitor’s 93.7 million.
The following two — “Household Issues” and “Meet The Grahams” — are virtually tied across the 50 million mark.
Nevertheless, the Mustard-produced follow-up “Not Like Us” has the Los Angeles MC within the lead. Having already racked up 217.7 million streams since its launch lower than a month in the past, it utterly outshines the Canadian celebrity’s ultimate launch “The Coronary heart Half 6,” which has but to go up on streaming providers.
Drake additionally launched “Taylor Made Freestyle” amid the battle, however was pressured to take away it from all platforms as 2Pac’s property didn’t take kindly to the usage of the late rapper’s likeness on the observe.
The track, which featured AI vocals from each ‘Pac and Snoop Dogg, was formally faraway from the “Hotline Bling” hitmaker’s social media pages after he was given 24 hours to take it down.
In a stop and desist letter issued in April, the Demise Row spitter’s property wrote: “The Property is deeply dismayed and dissatisfied by your unauthorized use of Tupac’s voice and persona. Not solely is the document a flagrant violation of Tupac’s publicity and the property’s authorized rights, additionally it is a blatant abuse of the legacy of one of many biggest hip-hop artists of all time. The Property would by no means have given its approval for this use.
“The unauthorized, equally dismaying use of Tupac’s voice towards Kendrick Lamar, a very good good friend to the Property who has given nothing however respect to Tupac and his legacy publicly and privately, compounds the insult.”
It continued: “If you happen to comply, the property will take into account whether or not an off-the-cuff negotiation to resolve this matter is smart. If you don’t comply, our consumer has approved this agency to pursue all of its authorized cures together with, however not restricted to, an motion for violation of […] the property’s copyright, publicity and persona rights and the ensuing damages, injunctive aid, and punitive damages and attorneys’ charges.”
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