Steve-O Says Kendrick Lamar Has a Cool Factor That Drake Doesn’t

Steve-O thinks that Kendrick Lamar is way cooler than Drake.

The Jackass star recently sat down with country singer Hardy on his Wild Ride podcast in which the duo talked about their top five rappers (around the 45-minute mark in the video below).

After André 3000 and Lamar came up, Steve-O explained why he thinks that the Outkast rapper is so great. “André 3000 just oozes cool, like just coolness,” he said. “I think Kendrick oozes coolness, too.”

Then, unprompted, Steve-O brought Drake into the mix. “It’s just a cool factor that you just can’t put your finger on,” he continued. “I will go as far as to say that Drake doesn’t have it.”

Elsewhere in the interview, Steve-O spoke about loving Lamar’s latest album GNX.

“It’s so fire, and I’m not even claiming to know anything about hip-hop,” he said. “I was super into 50 Cent and G-Unit and haven’t paid attention since. I played this new Kendrick album, and I was like, ‘Oh my god, my 81-year-old dad would be like oh shit, this is fire.’”

Steve-O’s comments about Drake’s lack of a cool factor probably stem from the perceived loss he took to Lamar during their beef earlier this year. Losing can certainly make someone seem less cool.

But comedian Marlon Wayans doesn’t think that Drake should feel bad about losing because of how entertaining the battle was.

In a recent appearance on Big Boy Neighborhood, Wayans expressed his stance on the two rappers’ back and forth.

“It was a beautiful battle. And I don’t think either one should feel bad,” he explained. “I don’t think Drake should feel bad. What they did collectively for that entertainment, how we all felt, that was a Super Bowl Halftime moment for me. To be a part of that whole week that was one of the greatest weeks in hip-hop.

“This was like he was Thanos and all the Avengers was coming after [Drake],” Wayans continued, referencing the fact that he was practically up against Future, Metro Boomin, and more. “I gotta give Drake his credit for standing toe-to-toe, like, ‘Nah, I got something for you. … Kendrick just slipped through the cracks. Kendrick is just special and different and hit him from an angle that it was like therapy. He hit him in the soul. You can’t beat that.”