Halsey decided to have a little fun with Kendrick Lamar’s hit “Swimming Pools (Drank)” during some downtime.
In a clip she shared on Wednesday, Halsey is seen sitting outside with a palm tree behind her, staring directly into the camera as she confidently delivers Kendrick’s verse over an instrumental from Canadian rapper Dax.
“OK, now open your mind and listen to me, Kendrick. I am your conscience; if you don’t hear me, then you will be history, Kendrick. I know that you’re nauseous right now and I’m hopin’ to lead you to victory, Kendrick,” Halsey raps before breaking into laughter.
The surprise clip had fans losing it in the comments, with plenty catching the Kendrick nod and others begging Halsey to step outside her usual lane — either by dropping a rap track or teaming up with Kendrick himself.
“Okay but I’m stuck listening to this on a loop I need an extended version Ashley pls,” one fan wrote, using Halsey’s real name, Ashley Frangipane. Another added, “Ok but we need a Kendrick collab.”
Someone else jumped in with, “NO WAIT MAKE A RAP SONG ONE TIME SHE GOT POTENTIAL.”
Things got even more interesting when Drake hit the like button on the video. As of now, Halsey hasn’t explained the clip at all, leaving fans to speculate about her intentions.
When it comes to Halsey and Kendrick Lamar, the two have never worked together and don’t have any known close connection. Halsey has brought up Kendrick before, though, while talking about how genre labels tend to impact artists differently.
“Kendrick [Lamar] has done a Maroon 5 feature, a Taylor Swift feature and a Sia feature — which is more pop features than I’ve done. No one’s calling him a pop star. But I’m being called one, even though I’m inherently an alternative artist,” she said back in 2017.
“I don’t know if it’s a male thing, I don’t know if it’s an urban thing. I don’t know what it is. But if you’re a female alternative artist and you do anything that’s even slightly pop leaning, it’s condemning.”
