4. Control - Big Sean feat. Kendrick Lamar
This one fascinates me. Not because there is some type of hidden meaning behind it, but because of the hidden fight going on behind it. The song is standard fare for hip-hop name dropping. It's Big Sean's song...but even he cringed at the verse added by Kendrick Lamar, who does this:
And that goes for Jermaine Cole, Big KRIT, Wale Pusha T, Meek Mill, A$AP Rocky, Drake Big Sean, Jay electron', Tyler, Mac Miller I got love for you all but I'm tryna murder you n*****
Nothing too strange for a rapper to rap, but Big Sean's reaction was completely unexpected. After the song got popular, Big Sean went on the record to say, "But when I heard that verse I was like 'Man, I'm not about to go back and change my verse. That's cheating'...I could go back, change it. Make it this. I could namedrop. You know, I could do this. I could cut his verse up, but that ain't the way of a OG. You know what I'm saying? That ain't how Gs move. And I wanted to do that for the culture of Hip Hop. For the culture of rap as opposed to myself. Like tryna protect myself." So he basically is complaining about a verse that he allowed on his own song. Really Big Sean? But let's be honest. I would try to distance myself from inflammatory lyrics like that too.