This subject matter will not be going anywhere anytime soon. The original NYC feather ruffler spoke to Young Jack Thriller about Kendrick’s ‘Control’ verse and what it means compared to his classic ‘NY NY‘ video and standing up for the West Coast at the ’95 Source Awards.
In other news, New Yorker Fabolous also gave his take on the matter in The Source, mostly explaining why he hadn’t responded yet as we all expected him to, thanks to a post-‘Control’ tweet:
That’s a hot topic on the market, and when I first heard I was gong to address it on the surface of what it was, somebody from out of New York claiming they the “King of New York,” but I took my time and I spoke with some OG’s, I researched it a little bit and got some more history behind it. Also, how everybody jumped into it for an intention play would change the situation as well, so a lot of guys stepped in and said their peace, but you also saw a lot of guys who were mentioned on the song, or who you would expect to have responses to the song, really didn’t take that approach, but am gonna tell you one thing that an OG told me, he said “if you do respond, make it work for you, make it come on your time, and not just like you trying to feed the twitter fans with a freestyle.” So I got that in the back of mind, so you might hear something eventually…
