Lil Baby Explains Why He Didn’t Like Being Mentioned In Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us”

Kendrick Lamar and Drake’s beef this year involved many people, and name-dropped twice as many people as the actual participants. Lil Baby recently revealed that he did not like being mentioned in the Compton rapper’s hit diss track “Not Like Us.”

The Atlanta artist recently sat down with Charlamagne Tha God and was asked a myriad of questions related to Gunna, the idea that he fell off, and the major rap beef this year that almost everyone has shared an opinion on. The Breakfast Club host asked for Baby’s reaction to coming up on “Not Like Us” when K. Dot rapped, “Lil Baby helped you get your lingo up” in his third verse; the GNX rapper listed several Atlanta rappers who helped give the 6 God credibility as a way to paint him as a “colonizer.”

“I ain’t really into, like, that side of Hip-Hop,” Baby replied. Charlamagne brought up his “great” relationship with the Toronto superstar and the It’s Only Me rapper confirmed that their bond still existed. “With any situation, like, if you and him was arguing, then why the hell you gonna say me? You know? […] I don’t be wanting to have nothing to do with it. Not saying whatever they got going on isn’t real or nothing, but I feel like, to me, rapping and sh*t be my work. I don’t want [that]. That type of sh*t ain’t work.”

Lil Baby connected his answer to Charlamagne Tha God’s previous question about his relationship with Gunna. “I ain’t in [rap] for that type of sh*t,” he added. “You know what I’m saying? I ain’t on that.” His answer was seemingly an attempt to downplay the idea that he had been throwing subliminal shots at Gunna for being a snitch or a “rat” after taking an Alford plea in the YSL RICO case involving Young Thug and several other YSL members.

Kendrick Lamar also mentioned Future, 21 Savage, Young Thug, Quavo, and 2 Chainz in the same verse on “Not Like Us.” Future, 21, and Thug also shared their perspectives on the rap beef at various points within this year. The “Redrum” rapper spoke about it in real time, but more so focused on the issues between Drake and Metro Boomin. “Don’t keep coming on my motherf**kin’ [Instagram] Live talkin’ about no motherf**kin’ beef,” he said. “Metro my brother and Drake my brother. They gonna figure that sh*t out eventually.”

Young Thug took to X this past October and tagged Drizzy, Hendrix, and Metro in the same tweet. “We all bruddas,” he wrote. “Music aint the same without us collabin.” In true Future fashion, he had a dismissive approach to the entire situation; rather, he focused on “Like That” and how he could have felt slighted. “I’m supposed to be the one who gets mad. I’m still confused about that. Nobody cares about what I think,” he told GQ in November. “That’s what was so f**ked up about the sh*t. To the point where I’m so player that I ain’t even said anything to the public about how I feel about it. Like, why is everybody mad when he was talking about me on my song? […] I ain’t part of this Big Three, I’m nobody on my song, man.”

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