{"id":240301,"date":"2025-09-20T01:39:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T01:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/240301\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T01:39:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T01:39:10","slug":"hit-boy-recalls-surprising-text-from-kendrick-lamar-the-day-not-like-us-dropped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/240301\/","title":{"rendered":"Hit-Boy Recalls Surprising Text From Kendrick Lamar The Day “Not Like Us” Dropped"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We all probably remember where we were when Kendrick Lamar<\/a>‘s “Not Like Us” came out, as even Hit-Boy<\/a> recalls the moment as larger than life. He recently appeared on The Breakfast Club<\/a> and answered a question \u2013 among many others \u2013 that led to this reflection. It was about whether or not there’s more material with Kendrick “tucked away.”<\/p>\n

While they only have one official collaboration as a duo in “Backseat Freestyle,” Hit also provided production on A$AP Rocky’s “1Train” posse cut, Jay Rock<\/a>‘s “Wow Freestyle,” and a few other K.Dot guest verses. He said that he’s always “chopping it with bro”<\/a> and told a story about one interaction they had, which was centered around the King’s Disease beatsmith’s son.<\/p>\n

“My son, he five years old now. But for his fourth birthday, he made a song,” Hit-Boy recalled. “He made his first song. He was in most of the sessions with me and Nas<\/a>, just sitting in the back, didn’t realize he was taking this all in. I asked him [if he wanted] to make a song for his birthday. Put him on the mic, he literally freestyled with context. I was laughing, it was crazy. <\/p>\n

“But I put the song out with a video. And I think it was the day ‘Not Like Us’<\/a> dropped,” he continued. “And this is how I knew Kendrick, like, this was light work for him, like, this whole s**t. He texted me about my son’s video. Like, ‘Go ahead, nephew!’ You know what I mean? In the middle of all that. He crazy, he really crazy. He cool, though.” <\/p>\n

“Not Like Us” Lawsuit<\/p>\n

Of course, these days, Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” isn’t as light.<\/a> That’s because the defamation lawsuit against UMG from Drake<\/a> has extended the fallout from the battle in a way that might yield more important developments and changes for hip-hop and media law if whatever it results in prompts institutional reform and conversations… But that’s a big “if.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We all probably remember where we were when Kendrick Lamar‘s “Not Like Us” came out, as even Hit-Boy…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":240302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[128493,171,2260,128495,31347,51614,975,1013,50,128494,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-240301","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-breakfast-club-interview","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-hip-hop-news","11":"tag-hit-boy","12":"tag-kendrick-lamar","13":"tag-kendrick-lamar-not-like-us","14":"tag-music","15":"tag-music-video","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-text-message","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115234076373136613","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240301","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=240301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}