Fat Joe Says Not Even 2Pac or Snoop Dogg Have ‘Dominated the Paint’ Like Kendrick Lamar

Fat Joe has taken some time to reflect on the Kendrick Lamar and Drake beef one year after it set the world on fire.

During Thursday’s (May 8) episode of Joe and Jada, his new podcast series with his longtime friend/collaborator Jadakiss, Joey Crack delved into K.Dot’s success within the industry — specifically on Los Angeles radio.

Jada kicked the conversation off, confused about the beef’s timeline. “One year since the Kendrick and Drake discrepancy. What they like to call it ‘beef’ in the media world,” he said around the 32:35 mark. “Thank God nothing really happened to anybody, physically. Personally, I thought it was about four or five months ago. I can’t believe it’s already been a year.”

“How is it a year?” Joe said, also thrown off by the amount of time its been since the beef went public. “But what I can tell you is, boy, that Kendrick Lamar gets some spins in LA radio…”

Jadakiss quickly challenged the claim, suggesting every artist from L.A. gets love on the local airwaves. While Joe acknowledged there was some truth the statement, he said Kendrick’s dominance was unlike anything he’s ever witnessed.

“I was there last week. I’ve never seen nothing like that: Every single song, ‘Turn his TV off…’ What?” he continued. “It’s a fact. Kendrick Lamar gets played nine out of every 10 songs in L.A. right now. Not even Snoop Dogg, not even Tupac Shakur — nobody from L.A. has dominated the paint like this guy… If you’re from L.A., you probably think there’s only one guy on Earth, Kendrick Lamar. I’m just keeping it a buck with you.”

Jadakiss confessed Kendrick had a solid year, and “a helluva career,” but he believed the modern rap beefs were “getting out of hand.”

“It’s always good as long as it stays on wax,” he said. “Now, when it first started, somebody say something about you, you gotta go to the studio, you gotta immediately work on getting one back at there… Now, as the technology evolved, it turns into movie skits, animations, retrieving fake information… It got a little wacky for me. I like it to be beats and rhymes and keep it like that. Once it got out of my pay grade, it’s a little bit of disinterest to me… I just wanna see rhymes and song and hip-hop shit.”