Kendrick Lamar has commented on Drake‘s claim that Elliott Wilson snitched on him during their feud last month.
Wilson himself revealed Kendrick’s reaction on X (formerly Twitter) over the weekend as the Compton rap star filmed the music video for his chart-topping diss song “Not Like Us” in his hometown.
“Kendrick dapped me up and whispered ‘you’re a rat.’ I [love] hip hop. Ha! #Compton,” he wrote.
The veteran Hip Hop journalist previously denied he snitched on Drake to Kendrick during an appearance on The Joe Budden Podcast.
Kendrick dapped me up and whispered “you’re a rat.” I ❤️ hip hop. Ha! #Compton
— Elliott Wilson (@ElliottWilson) June 22, 2024
During the interview, Wilson revealed that Drake sent him a rat emoji prior to the release of “Family Matters,” insinuating that the Rap Radar Podcast co-host was a snitch.
Wilson later discussed the spat in greater detail on HipHopDX‘s The Bigger Picture series alongside DJ Hed and Jeremy Hecht.
“That morning, we got ‘6:16 in LA‘ to set the day, which we didn’t see coming. Amazing record,” he began. “There was a lot of industry rumors that Drake was gonna respond that night. It wasn’t some big secret.”
He continued: “We had our falling out with the Bobbi [Althoff] thing when I criticized that, but we had gotten kinda cool more behind the scenes and him supporting my social media feeds and that type of shit. I hit him like, ‘Yo, you dropping a joint tonight?’ I’m just sniffing around.
“He’s like, ‘Yeah, something, lol.’ And I saw the things where he was kinda letting Akademiks know something’s coming, ‘Get it in your stream.’ Letting Kai [Cenat] know something’s coming, ‘Get it in your stream.’ Letting Mal know something’s coming. Drake has media relationships and at times, he’s giving us information to help present to the world.”
“So he teases [a response track], and then out of nowhere, he sent me a rat emoji!” he added. “I’ve never had a grown man ever send me a disrespectful emoji of any sort. I’m a grown ass man. I’m fuming.”
Wilson said he replied by sending Drake a meme of 50 Cent asking in disbelief: “What he say ‘fuck me’ for?” but the 6 God never responded.
“I felt that he thought I was against him and I had chosen a side and I couldn’t be trusted anymore,” the journalist explained, before pushing back against the notion that he’s a “rat.”
“What would I rat about? Imagine if you said that everything Kendrick knows [is] ’cause Elliott Wilson is telling him that? Kendrick would laugh all day. I’m cool with Kendrick, but we’re not cool like that to even have that level of personal rapport.”
Wilson concluded by saying that after sending him a rat emoji, Drake ceased contact with him and blocked him on Instagram.
[Full disclosure: Elliott Wilson serves as Editorial Director of Hip Hop Journalism at UPROXX Studios, HipHopDX‘s parent company.]
