Slaughterhouse's Joell Ortiz disses Kendrick Lamar

There’s quite the storm brewing in hip-hop at present, on account of Kendrick Lamar stepping up with a controversial verse earlier in the week. Fellow rapper Big Sean leaked the track ‘Control’ which, due to sampling reasons, didn’t make his album released earlier in the week. It certainly wasn’t on account of quality, Lamar’s 40+ bars aggressively claiming he was the king of New York, juggling both coasts and that he was up for murdering emcees, calling out a number of his peers on it. You can check it out below.

It’s pretty much been the only thing being discussed in the hip-hop media this week, with radio stations, blogs and magazines all frothing at the mouth at the prospect of Kendrick Lamar raising the competitive bar in the genre. Lamar has already had a vet of much deserved praise for his album good kid MAAD CITY that was released last year, and the verse is certainly his claim of hip-hop sovereignty.

It’s something he’s discussed in interviews previously, this idea of fierce competition to make himself better, and whilst it’s already being rather lazily touted as the next East vs. West battle in hip-hop (which in itself was never really about geographical location at it source, and more about paranoia and a direct rivalry between two record labels and their rappers), it has prompted some responses from a number of rappers.

Twitter, this being 2013, was the first place where you could read Kendrick’s peers responses, with some of the rappers called out on the record stating approval of his move, Clipse’s Pusha T being one. The best response was from Lupe Fiasco though who took umbrage at the internet’s fervent response to the track (he merely ‘liked’ the verse), and then fired off a number of tweets where he ghost-wrote responses for the rappers mentioned (check them here). He’s now dropped a lyrical response of all his own rapping however – head here to listen to that.

He was beaten to it though by Joell Ortiz, 25% of hip-hop supergroup Slaughterhouse, who has dismissively administered “Little homie you ain’t the king of New York, you the next thing on my fork” in a scathing response (above) premiered via legendary New York DJ Funkmaster Flex. It’s less than a week to go till Ortiz steps up alongside Joe Budden, Crooked I and Royce da 5’9 when Slaughterhouse hit Manchester’s Gorilla, and there’s every chance this fast paced beef could have developed even more by then. It’s certainly added a competitive intrigue to the show next week.

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