YNW Melly was propped up as a punch line on Kendrick Lamar‘s now-viral “Euphoria” Drake diss observe, which the incarcerated rap star considers fairly the backhanded praise.
Halfway by the observe, Kendrick references the “Murder on My Mind” rapper, and his ongoing double homicide case … the place he stands accused of killing his two buddies Chris “YNW Juvy” Thomas and Anthony “YNW Sakchaser” Williams.
Kendrick raps, “Yeah, Cole and Aubrey know I’m egocentric/ The crown is heavy I pray they my actual buddies/ But when not, I’m YNW Melly.”
You possibly can perceive the uneasy highlight Okay. Dot put Melly in, and he tells TMZ Hip Hop, “Kendrick Lamar is one of my favorite rappers so I feel honored and appalled … I’m a household name — just for the wrong s**t!!!”
Melly has different hurdles to climb exterior of rap lyric annotations — he was in courtroom final week in Broward County for his double homicide retrial, which is presently on ice till additional discover.
The choose within the case is forbidding the jury from seeing a not too long ago produced doc on Melly’s life. Ya gotta marvel if the choose will put an analogous ban on Kendrick’s “Euphoria.”