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"Well, that&amp;apos;s one way to take &amp;quot;Control.&amp;quot; Kendrick Lamar put the hip hop world on notice this week when he anointed himself the &amp;quot;King of New York&amp;quot; and then proceeded to trash his competition in a provocative verse for Big Sean&amp;apos;s new track, &amp;quot;Control.&amp;quot;\r\n&amp;quot;I&amp;apos;m Machiavelli&amp;apos;s offspring / I&amp;apos;m the King of New York / King of the coast / One hand I juggle them both,&amp;quot; the 26-year-old Compton, Calif., native raps on the song, originally intended for Big Sean&amp;apos;s upcoming Hall of Fame album.\r\nPHOTOS: The biggest celeb feuds ever\r\nLamar&amp;apos;s verse goes on to name-check some of hip hop&amp;apos;s biggest names: &amp;quot;I&amp;apos;m usually homeboys with the same n----s I&amp;apos;m rhymin with / But this is hip-hop and them n----s should know what time it is / And that goes  for Jermaine Cole, Big K.R.I.T., Wale, Pusha T, Meek Mill, A$AP Rocky,  Drake, Big Sean, Jay Electron&amp;apos;, Tyler, Mac Miller.&amp;quot;\r\n&amp;quot;I got love for you all but I&amp;apos;m tryna murder you n----s / Tryna make sure your core fans never heard of you n----s / They don&amp;apos;t wanna hear not one more noun or verb from you n----s,&amp;quot; he rhymes. &amp;quot;What is competition? / I&amp;apos;m tryna set the bar high.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nThe previously unreleased song -- which also features a verse by Jay Electronica, one of the rappers named by Lamar -- dropped on Monday, Aug. 12, and promptly ignited a flurry of tweets from Lamar&amp;apos;s fans and fellow rappers. The reactions are varied, of course, but a surprising number of them are positive.\r\n&amp;quot;I hear u loud and clear my n----,&amp;quot; Pusha T tweeted to Lamar shortly after the song&amp;apos;s release.\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;Rap, hip hop has always been mad competitive,&amp;quot; Big K.R.I.T. added in an interview with Hip Hop DX on Tuesday, Aug. 13. &amp;quot;It&amp;apos;s a competitive sport; it&amp;apos;s a gladiator sport...I was like, &amp;apos;Hell yeah.&amp;apos; Thank you for the shout out and shout out to all the fans that he may have that didn&amp;apos;t know about my music and now they gon&amp;apos; go back and listen to records and check out &amp;apos;1 Train,&amp;apos; and want to know why he felt the need to mention my name...It&amp;apos;s all good, man. It&amp;apos;s all within the sport.&amp;quot;\r\nIndeed, many rappers seem to have taken Lamar&amp;apos;s boastful spiel as a challenge to step up their game. &amp;quot;If Larry Bird and Magic [Johnson] never challenged each other, the game wouldn&amp;apos;t have made the strides that it did. Same with music,&amp;quot; Revolt TV wrote in a tweet that was retweeted by Sean &amp;quot;Diddy&amp;quot; Combs. &amp;quot;Hip hop was born out of competition and raised by battles. This is what music needs.&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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