It's enough to make you do a double-take. N***** lookin' like I'm a creative player."
Now y'all don't even know how to rate him? How y'all let a conscious n**** go commercial while only makin' conscious albums? and I say that because he does with a lot of artistic imagery that is kinda subjective for the listener to rate instead of a purely technical thing but either way, on Genius you should be able to see all the double entendres and references. Lamar intentionally blurs those lines in an inspired verse that plays up the irony. The assumption that each artist occupies opposing corners of the universe, where never the twain shall meet, is old-school logic. Lamar has since collected multiple Grammy Awards, while Future has yet to receive even a nomination for his solo works. In March 2015, when Lamar released his cerebral funk-jazz opus To Pimp a Butterfly to overwhelming critical buzz, Future was in the middle of a Percocet-and-lean-fueled mixtape run that had the streets in a stranglehold and culminated in the July 2015 release of DS2, a major-label album compiled from a string of Future's latest-and-greatest street hits. Or, more specifically, the lyrical miracle Lamar vs. He had released a few mixtapes early in his career but Kendrick really began to burst on the scene with his first studio album Section.80. Kendrick Lamar and Future are largely emblematic of contemporary mainstream rap's two perceived extremes - the conscious vs. Kendrick Lamar is one of hip hop’s biggest names due to his incredible lyricism, honesty and story-telling ability. The pairing is not their first, but here's what makes it so compelling and dope. That's exactly what happens on a newly released remix of Future's runaway hit "Mask Off," featuring an inspired verse from Lamar. 1 albums ( FUTURE, HNDRXX), it's bound to be the best of both worlds. And when Kendrick Lamar, the artist with the biggest selling album of the year ( DAMN.), hooks up with Future, the artist responsible for making history in 2017 with back-to-back No. Kendrick Lamar’s Ranking Of His Own Albums May Surprise You He also reveals ‘DAMN. The only thing bigger than a classic beef in hip-hop is a monumental collabo.