RZA Compares Drake, Kendrick Lamar Red meat to ‘Godzilla vs. King Kong’

RZA is as soon as once more weighing in on Kendrick Lamar and Drake‘s well-known feud, with the Wu-Tang Extended family member evaluating it to a conflict of 2 different well-known titans on The Past due Display Thursday evening (Feb. 27).

When host Stephen Colbert requested whether or not he’d been tuned in to the 2 hip-hop stars’ explosive alternate of diss tracks ultimate yr, RZA smiled. “Yeah, that was once like Godzilla vs. King Kong,” he stated.  

The rapper went on to provide an explanation for why feuds like Dot and Drizzy’s are in fact “treasured in hip-hop” — no longer that any one ever dared mess together with his iconic Staten Island team again within the day, as he says “other folks know that Wu-Tang Extended family ain’t not anything to f–k with.” 

“On the finish of the day, hip-hop is a recreation,” he instructed Colbert. “And it’s a recreation the place we problem MCs, we problem the DJs … It’s just right for the game when there’s war of words.”

“It’s wholesome, so long as it remains at the document, and it remains within the track and doesn’t spill over into the streets the place somebody will get harm,” RZA added.

The frontman’s feedback come many months after Lamar and the Toronto hitmaker’s behind-the-scenes pressure simmered over right into a disagreement lasting during the spring of 2024, all over which the pair lobbed searing diss tracks — such because the Compton local’s Billboard Scorching 100-topper “Now not Like Us” and Drake’s “Circle of relatives Issues” — backward and forward. RZA prior to now shared his ideas at the combat in an October interview with Advanced, calling Dot a “herbal lyricist” and Drake a “skilled” wordsmith.

“It is advisable educate a fighter and he might be just right,” he elaborated on the time. “Then you were given the ones herbal combatants who additionally then undergo coaching. In order that’s a distinct chamber there. And whilst Drake were given bars eternally, Kendrick’s bars’ efficiency was once more potent.”

RZA’s discuss with to The Past due Display comes only a few days after Wu-Tang introduced its ultimate excursion, a 27-date trek kicking off June 6 in Baltimore and — following stops in Tampa Bay, Houston, Phoenix, San Francisco, Chicago, Detroit, Boston, New York Town, Toronto and extra towns — wrapping July 18 in Philadelphia. All 9 surviving contributors of the Extended family will participate within the trek, whilst the overdue Ol’ Grimy Bastard’s position shall be taken over by means of his son, Younger Grimy Bastard.

Of the reunion, RZA instructed Colbert, “This Ultimate Chamber Excursion is all people coming again in combination … appearing that even during the arduous occasions, one of the beefs and gripes that we had, the team spirit and neighborhood is what assists in keeping us tight and united.”

Watch RZA on The Past due Display above.