{"id":124309,"date":"2025-01-06T12:11:22","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T17:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/01\/06\/heres-why-vybz-kartel-thinks-drake-is-a-better-bigger-artist-than-kendrick-lamar-2\/"},"modified":"2025-01-06T12:11:22","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T17:11:22","slug":"heres-why-vybz-kartel-thinks-drake-is-a-better-bigger-artist-than-kendrick-lamar-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/01\/06\/heres-why-vybz-kartel-thinks-drake-is-a-better-bigger-artist-than-kendrick-lamar-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s Why Vybz Kartel Thinks Drake Is a \u2018Better & Bigger Artist\u2019 Than Kendrick\u00a0Lamar"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tVybz Kartel<\/a> is adding his voice to the Drake<\/a> vs. Kendrick Lamar<\/a> debate \u2014 and he\u2019s firmly on Team Drizzy.<\/p>\n

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\n\tWhile speaking to Billboard<\/em><\/a>\u2018s Kyle Denis for a cover story published Monday (Jan. 6), the dancehall artist didn\u2019t hold back when prompted to share his thoughts on rap\u2019s biggest feud in recent memory. \u201cI\u2019m not a fan of Kendrick,\u201d Kartel began frankly. \u201cI don\u2019t even listen to Kendrick, so I wouldn\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhat does he rap?\u201d the \u201cRamping Shop\u201d musician continued. \u201cI saw it on the internet, but no disrespect to the dude, I hear him, but I don\u2019t listen to him. Drake is more in tune with Jamaica and the culture.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tKartel added, \u201cDrake is a better and bigger artist.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe reggae star\u2019s cover story comes less than a week after he made his grand return with a massive Freedom Street concert in front of more than 35,000 people at Kingston\u2019s National Stadium in Jamaica on New Year\u2019s Eve, performing for the first time since his July prison release. Kartel had served a 13-year sentence for the murder of Clive \u201cLizard\u201d Williams, for which he and his co-accused \u2014 Shawn Campbell, Kahira Jones and Andre St. John \u2014 have always maintained their innocence.<\/p>\n

\n\tDuring the tail end of Kartel\u2019s sentence, Drake and Lamar\u2019s beef<\/a> simmered over into an explosive rap back-and-forth that fans are still talking about months later. The beef started with the Toronto artist dissing Dot on \u201cPush Ups\u201d and \u201cTaylor Made Freestyle\u201d in April. Lamar clapped back with a slew of searing response tracks including \u201cEuphoria,\u201d the Billboard Hot 100<\/a>-topping \u201cNot Like Us\u201d and more, while Drake added fuel to the fire with songs such as \u201cFamily Matters\u201d and \u201cThe Heart Pt. 6\u201d in May.<\/p>\n

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\n\tLamar is now set to headline the 2025 Super Bowl Halftime Show, while Drake is in the midst of taking legal action against Universal Music Group for allegedly conspiring to \u201cartificially inflate\u201d<\/a> the Compton musician\u2019s streams on \u201cNot Like Us\u201d and for allegedly allowing Lamar to defame Drake<\/a> on the track. In November, UMG denied the accusation \u2014 which the company called \u201coffensive and untrue\u201d \u2014 and added in a statement to Billboard,<\/em> \u201cWe employ the highest ethical practices in our marketing and promotional campaigns. No amount of contrived and absurd legal arguments in this pre-action submission can mask the fact that fans choose the music they want to hear.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAs for Vybz? He\u2019s in the running for the best reggae album Grammy for Party With Me<\/em>, which was \u201cdone in prison,\u201d the artist tells Billboard<\/em>. \u201cI was writing to keep my mind occupied, ended up with these songs and said, \u2018Let me just put them on a little EP.\u2019 Bam, Grammy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe ceremony airs Feb. 2 on CBS.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Vybz Kartel is adding his voice to the Drake vs. Kendrick Lamar debate \u2014 and he\u2019s firmly on Team Drizzy. Related The Return of Vybz Kartel: After 13 Years in Prison, Dancehall\u2019s King Reclaims His Throne \u2014 And\u2026 01\/06\/2025 While speaking to Billboard\u2018s Kyle Denis for a cover story published Monday (Jan. 6), the dancehall […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musique","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}