Kurupt Goes On A Wild Rant About Kendrick Lamar’s “Control Verse”

Last summer, Kendrick Lamar shook the rap world to its core with his name-calling, Cortez-wearing verse on Big Sean's "Control." What few realized at the time was that Kendrick's brash "I'm important like the Pope/I'm a Muslim on pork/I'm Makaveli's offspring, I'm the king of New York" passage was actually a homage to his "big homie Kurupt." On "Get Bizy," a Terrace Martin song from 2011 that features the two rappers, Kurupt raps, "I'm important like the Pope, I'm the king of New York/Live from South Central/I'm a Muslim on pork."

Now, in an interview with Vlad TV, the Dogg Pound rapper elaborates on the coastal feud that isn't a feud. Waffling back and forth between preaching peace and stomping the buildings, Kurupt punches his hand, rips off his glasses, and starts screaming at the camera. Talk about emphatic. "We don't have a problem with you, New York," he growls. "Stop it, my nigga!"

Throughout the interview, Kurput gesticulates wildly, adding: "King Of New York is a fucking move!" and "We don't want your city, your country, your town...nigga, we are the West coast, why the fuck would we want to be where you at?" Asked to explain his lines from "Get Bizy," Kurupt has only one answer: "I'm the fucking worst. That's all it means." (Also included is the barely-veiled threat that the East shouldn't wake up Los Angeles "for the wrong reasons.")

At the end of the video, back on the topic of Kendrick, the vet poses the rhetorical question, "Damn, Kurupt is who he fucks with and looks up to?" He then cocks his head, stares in the camera, and spits out: "You motherfucking right."

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