Kendrick Lamar ‘Euphoria’ Confusion Addressed By Haley Joel Osment
Kendrick Lamar has lastly acquired a response from The Sixth Sense star Haley Joel Osment after referencing him on his Drake diss observe “Euphoria.”
On the observe, the Compton native rapped: “Am I battlin’ ghost or A.I.? N-gga feelin’ like Joel Osteen / Funny, he was in a film called ‘A.I.’ / And my sixth sense tellin’ me to off him,” seemingly complicated the actor with televangelist Joel Osteen.
Osment was requested concerning the music in an interview with the Associated Press and mentioned he didn’t imagine that Kendrick made a mistake.
“I think he’s too precise. I mean, I don’t know for sure and I’m not going to assume that he knows my exact name,” the previous youngster star mentioned.
“But the way I’ve heard people talk about that and certain analysis that I’ve read about it, I think that it’s an intentional scrambling of my name and that other guy’s name because Kendrick’s too precise to just make a mistake like that, I think.”
Osmen additionally revealed that he was in Ireland taking pictures a brand new movie when “Euphoria” dropped and he “acquired like 100 texts in the midst of the evening, and I used to be like, ‘What is going on?!’”
Haley Joel Osment doesn’t think Kendrick Lamar made a mistake in the Drake diss song “Euphoria,” which conflated his name with the pastor Joel Osteen. The star of “The Sixth Sense” and “A.I.” appears next in “Blink Twice.” pic.twitter.com/icVaZjEDYE
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Osment starred in both The Sixth Sense and the Steven Spielberg film A.I. which Kendrick references in his verse, but it’s unclear how the controversial pastor matches into the lyric until the rapper did certainly get their names confused.
The Pulitzer Prize winner continued to reference The Sixth Sense on “Not Like Us” which opens with the road: “I see dead people,” which is essentially the most well-known quote from the movie.
M. Night Shyamalan, who directed The Sixth Sense, additionally just lately commented on Kendrick Lamar referencing the movie in his Drake diss tracks.
Appearing on Way Up With Angela Yee, the Oscar-nominated director mentioned: “We kind of lightly know each other, and I did know [he was a fan]. He’s very gracious with me, and I love him.”
Shyamalan then recalled being advised about “Euphoria” for the primary time.
“The first song [of the Drake disses] ends with it,” the filmmaker remembered. “So someone in the office was like, ‘Oh, Kendrick just dropped something and it references one of your [movies].’ I was like, ‘Oh, cool.’ That was before everything blew up.”
“Euphoria” additionally had additional popular culture affect when it was referenced on WWE Raw by wrestler CM Punk.
Delivering a promo to rival Drew McIntyre, Punk quoted the music and mentioned: “You hate the way I walk, you hate the way I talk, the way I dress.”