Can you believe it? It’s been 1 year since one of hip-hop’s most influential songs dropped right here on IFWT; Big Sean’s “Control” featuring Kendrick Lamar and Jay Electronica. If you all recall, Kendrick Lamar shook the game up with his controversial verse where he name dropped a lot of people’s favorite rapper, saying, “I got love for you all but I’m tryna murder you n-—-s /Tryna make sure your core fans never heard of you n-—-s /They don’t want to hear not one more noun or verb from you n-—-s.” In light of K. Dot’s game-changer, REVOLT has taken a retrospective look at the aftermath of the verse — from Jay Electronica’s thoughts, to Drake’s. Check it out after the jump.
Via REVOLT:
Even with Big Sean’s star-power and the amount of standout verses he had sprinkled on records from Meek Mill (“Burn”) to Drake (“All Me”), as well as the G.O.O.D. Music Cruel Summer complication, it was still hard to believe that anyone foresaw the resulting aftermath of his No I.D.-produced Hall Of Fame reject (due to sample clearance), “Control.”
After teasing the guest spots from the newly-christened star MC, Kendrick Lamar, and the hermetic wordsmith, Jay Electronica, Sean used Hot 97’s Funkmaster Flex for the premiere. As many would come to figure out at the song’s three-minute (approximately 2:57) mark, it wasn’t the song’s release that went on to shake the rap game to its core—it was Kendrick’s verse.
