Fat Joe Compares Kendrick to Snoop & 2Pac: ‘Nobody From L.A. Has Dominated the Paint Like This Guy'

Fat Joe and Jadakiss have a new podcast called Joe & Jada where they talk about all things music, sports, and culture. On their recently released premiere episode, the two rap legends — who've seen their fair share of rap beef — talked about the one-year anniversary of the kick-off of the historic rap battle between Kendrick Lamar and Drake.
Jada started things off by clarifying that what went down wasn't exactly 'beef,' and that he couldn't believe that it's been a whole year already. 'One year since the Kendrick and Drake discrepancy. What they like to call it 'beef' in the media world,' Jada quipped. 'Thank God nothing really happened to anybody, physically. Personally, I thought it was about four or five months ago. I can't believe it's already been a year.'
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Joey Crack couldn't believe that it's been a year either, and then sparked a light debate between the two when he said he noticed that Lamar gets more airplay than other West Coast legends did in their prime. 'Kiss fired back by saying, 'Everybody from L.A. gets spins on L.A. radio.'
Joe then asked him when was the last time Jadakiss was out there, with both of them saying they were recently in L.A. and Joe adding, 'Yo, bro, I never seen nothing like this. Every single song, they like, 'Turn the TV off,' causing Jada to agree that Kenny does indeed get a lot of spin in Southern California.
'It's a fact. Kendrick Lamar gets played nine out of every 10 songs in L.A. right now,' the Bronx rapper proclaimed. 'Not even Snoop Dogg, not even Tupac Shakur — nobody from L.A. has dominated the paint like this guy. That last year? What they're doing in L.A. — if you're from L.A., you probably think there's only one guy on Earth, Kendrick Lamar. I'm just keeping it a buck with you. You turn on that radio in L.A. — if you from L.A., you work at Target, Amazon, you're delivering some s–t, you working at the bakery, panadería, wherever, East L.A., holmes — you thinking it's one man breathing in hip-hop, it's called Kendrick Lamar.'
Joe then shifted the conversation to rap beef in today's landscape, asking the Yonkers MC what he thinks about historic hip-hop battles. 'For me, I thought it was always good if you take it all the back to Wild Style and LL and Kool Moe Dee and all the way up to us and 50,' he began. 'It's always good as long as it stays on wax. 'When it first started, somebody say something about you, you gotta go to the studio, you gotta immediately work on getting one back at there, knock the stick off your shoulders like a fight after school at three o'clock. Now, as the technology evolved, it turns into movie skits, animations, retrieving fake information… It got a little wacky for me. I like it to be beats and rhymes and keep it like that. Once it got out of my pay grade, it's a little bit of disinterest to me because it's turning political now.'
Fat Joe agreed about things getting political and brought up Drake's controversial UMG lawsuit. 'There's even lawsuits behind rap diss records now. I never saw that,' he said, to which Manteca Jada replied, 'That's over my head, I don't really understand… I just wanna see rhymes and song and hip-hop s–t.'
You can watch the full episode below.
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