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French Montana believes he has more hits than Kendrick Lamar. This didn’t sit right with most fans, including Young Thug.
French Montana is a confident rapper. Very confident. During an interview with Complex earlier in the week, French talked about his Instagram Live battle with Tory Lanez (A battle most fans feel French won, including Tory.) The Bronx rapper believes he could battle anyone. Then he dropped the name of the greatest living rapper right now: Kendrick Lamar. While acknowledging that Kendrick was a better artist, French said he believes he got more hits than Kendrick.
Here’s what he said:
Honestly, you could put somebody like Kendrick Lamar next to me on the same stage at a festival. I might outshine him… not because I’m a better rapper or whatever it is. It’s just that I got more hits…Kendrick Lamar got albums. He got masterpieces. But if you were to put us on the festival stage I would outshine him because I have more hits than Kendrick Lamar.
As the story circulated, fans scoffed at the idea. French went to Twitter to reclaim what he said earlier: that he feels like he can go “neck to neck” with Kendrick, adding “how many times I gotta prove myself before I get mind [SP]…”
Here are the tweets:
IF WE JUST TALKING ABOUT ANTHEMS, !! ME VS KENDRICK HIT FOR HIT ! I BELIEVE I CAN GO NECK TO NECK !! I BEEN MAKING HITS FOR A LONG TIME ! IT AINT MY FAULT I BELIEVE IN MYSELF.
HOW WAS I SUPPOSED TO ANSWER
THAT QUESTION ? HOW MANY TIMES I GOTTA PROVE MYSELF BEFORE I GET MINE— French Montana (@FrencHMonTanA) April 22, 2020
I love kendrick! that’s not just for kendrick that’s to anybody they put in front of me, and ask me that same question
what u want me to say lol ? It should be your attitude too.
If u think any less of yourself don’t blame it on the next person who don’t !— French Montana (@FrencHMonTanA) April 22, 2020
My point exactly ! He is a different artist
I was just sayin I’ll win that part he is gonna win everything else but give me mines lol https://t.co/NsIIvft8sq— French Montana (@FrencHMonTanA) April 22, 2020
My point !! I was talking about hits we can go neck to neck not taking nothing away from him just standing for myself is that still cool ? lol https://t.co/f1X4cndNbG
— French Montana (@FrencHMonTanA) April 22, 2020
Little did he know this would blow up. First, absolutely no one on social media is on French Montana’s side.
French toast > French Montana pic.twitter.com/dIcSS36qqr
— Gabe (@veteranposting) April 22, 2020
French Montana: I got more hits than Kendrick Lamar
Kendrick Lamar: Bitch Don’t Kill My Vibe cause you know DAMN well you need to HUMBLE yourself cause Poetic Justice isn’t The Recipe for my DNA and I’ll leave your body parts in Swimming Pools all over this m.A.A.d city pic.twitter.com/9KfSOJyCWI
— LitMoreTreesThanChristmasLights (@mrdopeflo) April 22, 2020
Never forget Diddy editing French Montana out of a picture and you know what? He was right to do it. pic.twitter.com/SVMyp3XWv9
— Andy Leavy (@midniteauth0r) April 22, 2020
French Montana isn’t even the Montana with the most hits. pic.twitter.com/vApHv8yC8w
— Marvin the Paranoid Android (@Boboye_Ak) April 22, 2020
Every time I hear French Montana come on a track pic.twitter.com/rd2eRQVtEh
— Plathanos
#HIVESZN (@SavinTheBees) Young Thug and French Montana beefing over Kendrick Lamar.
Kendrick rn : pic.twitter.com/oSqdQvp3TS
— Hiii-power (@TDE_Updates) April 22, 2020
French Montana Hot 100:
• 0 No. 1s
• 2 Top 10 Hits
• 17 Chart EntriesKendrick Lamar Hot 100:
• 2 No. 1s
• 8 Top 10 Hits
• 48 Chart EntriesRIAA:
French: 4 Gold, 9 Platinum
Kendrick: 15 Gold, 24 Platinum— Z (@djboothEIC) April 22, 2020
Even though he was getting relentlessly fried, French Montana was still holding his ground. He even put up a list of songs he would play in a Kendrick Lamar battle:
One person who is firmly on the French-Montana-can’t-beat-Kendrick side is Young Thug. Young Thug posted a short clip mocking French’s claim that he has more hits than Kendrick Lamar.
Young Thug’s reaction to French Montana saying he has more hits than Kendrick Lamar
— STRAPPED | Hip-Hop/Rap Updates (@STRAPPEDUS) April 22, 2020
French responded with a quick jab on Twitter and then Instagram.
He had to wear a dress so he can tuck the scattt
— French Montana (@FrencHMonTanA) April 22, 2020
THIS SHIT CRAY CRAY #moreinfluential #thatsafact PUT THAT BREAD UP AND BRING YOUR BEST 20 songsYoung Thug then proceeded to go off, releasing a whole bunch of videos dissing French, calling him all kinds of names and saying he has a video of him getting beat up.
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This is the house #AuntieFrench owned once upon a time. Dam thought I had something to do tonight
French responded with his own set of videos. At one point he offered Thug a million dollars if he released the video of him getting beat up.
All of this comes just days after French settled his 15-year beef with Jim Jones. (In the Complex interview he mentioned trying to be a good example for younger artists.)
Earlier this week French released his latest single, “That’s a Fact.”
We have no idea if he would play this song in a hypothetical battle with Kendrick. (He probably shouldn’t.)
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