2 Chainz just cleared the air about Kendrick Lamar dropping his name in that Drake diss track “Not Like Us” – turns out it’s all just clever bars.
Chatting with The Breakfast Club alongside Larry June, 2 Chainz tackled the question about K Dot’s verse that called out him and other Atlanta artists who’ve worked with Drake, painting Drake as some modern-day colonizer. On the track, Kendrick spits “2 Chainz say you good, but he lied,” but 2 Chainz thinks it’s just a slick reference to his 2012 hit with Drake, “No Lie.”
“I just think it was kind of like some wordplay cause Drake and I got a song called ‘No Lie,'” 2 Chainz explained. “And so when he said he lied, it just felt like I don’t know, but I didn’t take it as no kind of way. I don’t think he was taking a shot at me. I’ve heard all type of instances where somebody want me to say something back. I just think it was a moment where it was about Atlanta artists.”
2 Chainz explained he’s cool with the reference but noted it stirred up a lot of drama – some rappers wanted to steer clear of the beef while others were actually salty they didn’t get a mention. But Larry June? He says he never even caught 2 Chainz’s part or really listened to “Not Like Us” in full.
“I never heard that full song,” June admitted. “I fuck with everybody. I just didn’t particularly hear that song fully. I heard a lot of it on Instagram and stuff like that. But I was doing the album with him at the time, so I wasn’t really listening to too much shit like that.”
2 Chainz backed up June’s take, saying that’s exactly why he loves working with artists like him and Lil Wayne – they’re all in their own lanes, doing their thing without getting caught up in the drama.
