Teezo Touchdown Reacts To Kendrick Lamar Naming Him On Drake Diss
Teezo Touchdown has reacted to Kendrick Lamar mentioning him on his chart-topping Drake diss “Not Like Us” earlier this summer time.
On the observe, Ok.dot references the nails Teezo typically sports activities in his hair, rapping: “Nail a n-gga to the cross/He walk around like Teezo!”
Talking to Billboard in an interview revealed on Thursday (September 5), the Texas native remained impartial and selected to not take sides – as a substitute feeling honored that he’s even in a dialog with both artist.
“I made a decision that I wasn’t going to listen to any of the back-and-forth,” he revealed. “I’m seeing a mob mentality, and I don’t like division. Sorry I’m so kumbaya, but it’s all love over here. [The simple fact they both] know who I am… it’s still one of those moments where you have to pinch yourself. The kid in Beaumont, I’m pretty sure he’s jumping through the roof right now.”
Teezo Touchdown appeared on Drake’s 2023 effort For All The Dogs on “Amen,” and was later praised by the OVO rapper forward of the discharge of his debut album, How Do You Sleep At Night?
Last summer time, Drizzy shared a collection of photographs on his Instagram hyping up the genre-bending artist’s rookie undertaking. In the publish’s caption, he wrote: “Usually it’s a cut throat cryptic caption for the ones that turned on the gang members but tonight I just heard some of the best music ever so I am happy and I will spare you little birdies thanks to @teezotouchdown.”
Tyler, The Creator commented: “YAY,” whereas Lil Yachty added: “It’s your time brother.” Don Toliver additionally replied with a dynamite emoji. The Texas artist has labored with the aforementioned musicians along with being featured on Travis Scott’s UTOPIA.
As for “Not Like Us,” Kendrick Lamar followers aren’t joyful that Post Malone’s “I Had Some Help” has been topped the music of the summer time over the culture-dominating diss.
Billboard awarded the title to Posty’s nation collaboration with Morgan Wallen on Wednesday (September 4) as they unveiled their Songs of the Summer chart for 2024.
As the publication explains, “the 20-position Songs of the Summer running tally tracks the most popular titles based on cumulative performance on the weekly streaming-, airplay- and sales-based Billboard Hot 100 chart from Memorial Day through Labor Day (this year encompassing charts dated June 8 through Sept. 7).”
“I Had Some Help” took house the crown after main the chart for all 14 weeks all through this time interval.
“Not Like Us” got here in at quantity three, behind Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” — which at the moment sits at primary on the Hot 100 — in second place.
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Despite being backed up by metrics, the outcomes didn’t sit nicely with Kendrick Lamar followers who felt that “Not Like Us” was a shoe-in for Song of the Summer.
“‘Not Like Us’ and that 5 million it sold must have came out in a different summer that I’m not aware of,” one person wrote on X.
Another identified how inescapable Ok. Dot’s observe was, commenting: “This exactly why n-ggas say stream farming exists cause WHO was listening to this the whole summer?? I couldn’t step foot outside without hearing ‘Not Like Us.’”
Even critics of “Not Like Us” took subject with the end result, with one saying: “As a n-gga that hated ‘Not Like Us’ this some bullshit. They always try to drown black people out.”
