Soundcloud: Kendrick’s 1st Response To “Control
Kendrick talked to Power 106.1 to Big Boy’s neighborhood about the record.
I didn’t know it would be so much speculation—I just wanted to rap. If anybody knows me doing music, I wanna just rap.” As for the King of New York line? “I think that’s a case where I maybe had to dumb down my lyrics just a little bit. The irony of that line is that the people that actually understood it and got it was the actual kings of New York. We’ve been down with them this past week, and them understanding that it’s not about actually being the King of whatever coast, it’s about leading the market as great as Biggie as great as Pac.”