{"id":109054,"date":"2025-08-01T01:57:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T01:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/109054\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T01:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T01:57:09","slug":"kendrick-lamar-kanye-west-collaboration-leaks-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/109054\/","title":{"rendered":"Kendrick Lamar &#038; Kanye West Collaboration Leaks Online"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"font-lora text-dark-grey !leading-[1.9125rem] break-words text-[17px] lg:text-lg\">A collaboration between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hotnewhiphop.com\/profile\/kendricklamar\" class=\"font-semibold hover:text-accent-color border-b-2 border-accent-color\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kendrick Lamar<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hotnewhiphop.com\/profile\/kanye-ye-west\" class=\"font-semibold hover:text-accent-color border-b-2 border-accent-color\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kanye West<\/a> from what appears to be years ago has surfaced online, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/hiphop-n-more.com\/2025\/07\/new-kendrick-lamar-collaboration-with-kanye-intro-surfaces-online\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"font-semibold hover:text-accent-color border-b-2 border-accent-color\">Hip-Hop-N-More<\/a>. A fan on Reddit posted the leak on Tuesday night with the title, &#8220;Intro.&#8221; It&#8217;s unclear when the song was recorded, but Lamar raps at one point, &#8220;We approaching 2020, 20-20 vision is coming up out my hoodie.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-lora text-dark-grey !leading-[1.9125rem] break-words text-[17px] lg:text-lg\">As the leak has circulated on social media, fans have been praising Lamar&#8217;s verse while questioning Kanye&#8217;s. &#8220;Lmao laughed when Ye verse came on,&#8221; one user wrote on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/ThroughTheWire\/comments\/1mcmxim\/fresh_leak_ye_kendrick_lamar_intro\/?utm_source=embedv2&amp;utm_medium=post_embed&amp;utm_content=action_bar&amp;embed_host_url=https:\/\/hiphop-n-more.com\/2025\/07\/new-kendrick-lamar-collaboration-with-kanye-intro-surfaces-online\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"font-semibold hover:text-accent-color border-b-2 border-accent-color\">Reddit<\/a>. Another remarked: &#8220;It sounds like Kendrick let the make a wish kid in the booth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-lora text-dark-grey !leading-[1.9125rem] break-words text-[17px] lg:text-lg\">Others came to Kanye&#8217;s defense. &#8220;Kind of sounds like his verse aint ready and he put down what he wants the flow to sound like,&#8221; one more fan commented. Another theorized: &#8220;Pretty sure this has been kanyes way of collaborative writing since at least MBDTF era, where he does a mumble freestyle and then a writer goes back over it and fleshes out the lyrics.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kendrick Lamar &amp; Kanye West Relationship<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-lora text-dark-grey !leading-[1.9125rem] break-words text-[17px] lg:text-lg\">Kendrick Lamar and Kanye West have collaborated multiple times over the years, including on 2016&#8217;s &#8220;No More Parties in LA.&#8221; Back in 2024, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hotnewhiphop.com\/profile\/consequence\" class=\"font-semibold hover:text-accent-color border-b-2 border-accent-color\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Consequence<\/a> told Bootleg Kev that Lamar and West have \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hotnewhiphop.com\/845946-consequence-claims-kanye-west-kendrick-lamar-unreleased-collab-album-hip-hop-news\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"font-semibold hover:text-accent-color border-b-2 border-accent-color\">an album\u2019s worth of unreleased songs together<\/a>.&#8221; He also noted that Madlib produced them. \u201cI just think it just needed to be structured,\u201d he said at the time, as caught by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/rb-hip-hop\/kanye-west-ye-kendrick-lamar-album-together-consequence-1235786015\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"font-semibold hover:text-accent-color border-b-2 border-accent-color\">Billboard<\/a>. \u201cBut the ideas are\u2026 Yeah, I heard the whole thing. It\u2019s there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-lora text-dark-grey !leading-[1.9125rem] break-words text-[17px] lg:text-lg\">Madlib also confirmed the two have a number of unreleased songs together that he produced during an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/music\/a\/eric-skelton\/madlib-interview-best-hip-hop-producer-2019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"font-semibold hover:text-accent-color border-b-2 border-accent-color\">Complex<\/a> in 2020. \u201cOh, they did like 30 minutes of stuff, just going back and forth, going crazy,\u201d he told the outlet. \u201cThey were going off, too, man. Because I do my beat tapes like one-minute beats, and they were just, one minute on that one, that one, that one. It was crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-lora text-dark-grey !leading-[1.9125rem] break-words text-[17px] lg:text-lg\">Despite their longtime collaborative relationship, Kanye West has been more critical of Kendrick Lamar in recent months. He took <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hotnewhiphop.com\/profile\/drake\" class=\"font-semibold hover:text-accent-color border-b-2 border-accent-color\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Drake<\/a>&#8216;s side in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hotnewhiphop.com\/895118-kanye-west-admits-hates-kendrick-lamar-not-like-us-vicious-rant-hip-hop-news\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"font-semibold hover:text-accent-color border-b-2 border-accent-color\">his viral feud with the GNX rapper<\/a> and complained about the &#8220;Not Like Us&#8221; diss track.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A collaboration between Kendrick Lamar and Kanye West from what appears to be years ago has surfaced online,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":109055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[9416,171,2260,5924,31347,33478,975,50,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-109054","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-collaboration","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-hip-hop-news","11":"tag-kanye-west","12":"tag-kendrick-lamar","13":"tag-leak","14":"tag-music","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114951031633435833","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}