{"id":111335,"date":"2024-04-20T11:51:15","date_gmt":"2024-04-20T18:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=111335"},"modified":"2024-04-20T11:51:15","modified_gmt":"2024-04-20T18:51:15","slug":"bts-rm-gets-into-the-drake-vs-kendrick-lamar-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/bts-rm-gets-into-the-drake-vs-kendrick-lamar-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS&#8217; RM gets into the Drake vs. Kendrick Lamar controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In recent months, the rap industry has had much to talk about due to the dispute between two of their greatest artists, and recently, <strong>BTS<\/strong>&#8216; <strong>RM<\/strong> got into this <strong>Drake<\/strong> vs. <strong>Kendrick Lamar<\/strong> controversy, acting as a peacemaker between the two and drawing much attention among fans.<\/p>\n<p>The scandal apparently started at the end of 2023 when Drake collaborated with the rapper <strong>J. Cole<\/strong> in the song &#8216;<strong>First Person Shooter<\/strong>&#8216;, which was not well received by Lamar, who later joined <strong>Future<\/strong> and <strong>Metro Boomin<\/strong> to go against these rappers with subtle references to their comments.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Xty2gi5cMa8\" title=\"Drake - First Person Shooter ft. J. Cole\" width=\"1240\" height=\"698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Xty2gi5cMa8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Later, on April 13th, Drake appeared to answer a new song by <strong>DJ Akademiks<\/strong> titled &#8216;<strong>Push Ups<\/strong>&#8216; criticizing Kendrick&#8217;s height and mentioning his wife. Fans have defended the rapper and commented about the controversy, and RM is not different.<\/p>\n<p>The BTS leader made a reference to the controversy acting as a peacemaker between the two by sharing in his Instagram story the Kendrick Lamar song &#8216;<strong>Poetic Justice<\/strong>&#8216; ft. Drake from 2012, demonstrating that he wants his rap idols to end this battle.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KNJsSource\/status\/1780515023863054507\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">240417 RM via rkive instagram story listening to \u2018Poetic Justice\u2019 by Kendrick Lamar, Drake.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RM?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#RM<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%EB%B0%A9%ED%83%84%EC%86%8C%EB%85%84%EB%8B%A8RM?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#\ubc29\ud0c4\uc18c\ub144\ub2e8RM<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%EA%B9%80%EB%82%A8%EC%A4%80?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#\uae40\ub0a8\uc900<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BTSRM?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#BTSRM<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/b1kEdqfdc4\">pic.twitter.com\/b1kEdqfdc4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kim Namjoon Source (@KNJsSource) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KNJsSource\/status\/1780515023863054507?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 17, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent months, the rap industry has had much to talk about due to the dispute between two of their greatest artists, and recently, BTS&#8216; RM got into this Drake vs. Kendrick Lamar controversy, acting as a peacemaker between the two and drawing much attention among fans. The scandal apparently started at the end of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2817,"featured_media":111366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,16],"tags":[49,934],"class_list":{"0":"post-111335","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-kpop","9":"tag-bts","10":"tag-rm"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}