Shyne has walked back on comments about Kendrick Lamar’s album good kid, m.A.A.d city., after calling it “trash.”
“I would say I made a mistake about Kendrick Lamar. I will admit to that. I think that was definitely a mistake,” Shyne said on Math Hoffa’s My Expert Opinion podcast.
Shyne continued, “I think Drake is nice, Drake is incredible, and Lamar has obviously proven me completely wrong, but everybody got it at the time. I was dealing with whatever I was dealing with, and I didn’t understand it. I didn’t appreciate it. He’s obviously proven to be one of the greatest musicians [of] our generation. That’s one I take back.”
Shyne has been working hard promoting his Hulu documentary, The Honorable Shyne. He initially called the album “trash” back in 2012. When pressed back then, he doubled down.
“We live in the United States of America, we don’t live in the United States of Aftermath. Jimmy Iovine doesn’t pay me. I can say whatever I want. Beats [are] trash, number one,” he said at the time. “And once your beats are trash, you’re finished because you can’t handle a good flow. I don’t really want to hear what you gotta say. I’ll go buy Dr. Cornel West’s album if I want to hear someone talk.”
