I don’t know if this is the first diss track in response to Kendrick Lamar’s verse on the Big Sean song “Control,” but it is the first I’ve heard. The controversial lyrics suggest that Kendrick Lamar is coming for other rappers fans, even those he considers friends and he proclaims himself the king of New York.
A group called “Da YoungFellaz” responded with a Kendrick Lamar diss track called “Turn Down That Sound.”
The group “decided to record a response” 10 minutes after hearing his verse. They say “he’s awoken the sleeping Giants.”
However after listening to the song it sounds like this is purely a rap group trying to capitalize on the buzz Kendrick Lamar has created. They don’t reference anything that Kendrick says. There is a vague reference to I believe Vietnam and bombs at the beginning of the song, but it doesn’t sound like that is more coincidence than a reference to Lamar.
I expected something more along the lines of Slaughterhouse’s Joell Ortiz’s Kendrick Lamar diss track.
The rest of ‘Da YoungFellaz’ song is generic rap rhetoric rambling, not a response to Kendrick Lamar. They never even say his name in the song aside from seemingly not even subtly addressing him.
Maybe I missed something.
Kendrick Lamar said he was “trying to raise the bar” but apparently they YoungFellaz weren’t up to par.
Lupe Fiasco ghost wrote better responses for other rappers.
Some real diss tracks might be in the works, Joe Budden apparently was headed to the studio.
@parksmusic text me the time & i’ll be there.
— Joe Budden (@JoeBudden) August 13, 2013
Fabolous was trying to find an open studio.
Any studios open yet?
— Fabolous (@myfabolouslife) August 13, 2013
[UPDATE]:
So I questioned whether this was in fact a diss track, and the Da Young Fellaz reached out to let me know that it in fact was.
@mikedyce A lot of line's went over yah head huh bro? Keep listening, we're repesenting for our city, bar for bar there's no competition.
— Da YoungFellaz (@DaYoungFellaz) August 13, 2013
@mikedyce We're not going to take a personal attack at him, he ain't say nothin about us. But instead kept it Hip-Hop our entire WAS FOR him
— Da YoungFellaz (@DaYoungFellaz) August 13, 2013
@mikedyce It is a diss track, "How many times they try convincing that they line for line, but aren't parallel, I see you on that carousel"
— Da YoungFellaz (@DaYoungFellaz) August 13, 2013
@mikedyce "Many go round, that merry go round, we bury yo sound, you ain't ready for that steady go down"
— Da YoungFellaz (@DaYoungFellaz) August 13, 2013
@mikedyce "The strong move quiet, the weak starts riots, real niggas eat good, bitches do diets" Listen closely bro, the undergrounds talkin
— Da YoungFellaz (@DaYoungFellaz) August 13, 2013
Them lines going over people's heads, we love it tho! lol
— Da YoungFellaz (@DaYoungFellaz) August 13, 2013
@mikedyce I mean every line was directed at him. So you say tomato, we say to-ma-to Lol. Same difference.
— Da YoungFellaz (@DaYoungFellaz) August 13, 2013
Kendrick didn't personally diss US, he said he's the King of New York and he's from the West Coast, so we're dissing him with REAL BARS!
— Da YoungFellaz (@DaYoungFellaz) August 13, 2013
They're all shots at him.
— Da YoungFellaz (@DaYoungFellaz) August 13, 2013