Terence Crawford Responds to Kendrick Lamar’s Drake Diss Track With Bold Declaration

Finally, there is light at the end of the tunnel. Fans of Terence Crawford might have to wait for just another three months. Crawford, the first man to become an undisputed champion in two divisions, aims to add one title to his name. To further his ambition, he has decided to challenge the reigning light middleweight champion, Israil Madrimov, for his WBA belt. So today, through his Instagram story, the unified welterweight champion made it clear what he intends to do. As it appears, Crawford roped in the lines from rap legend Kendrick Lamar‘s latest number.

But why did Crawford use this track to promote his fight? Lamar, it seems, has used P4P number 1’s name for his latest diss single against Drake. So as much as it aids the rap legend, perhaps it might add some weight to Crawford’s drift as well!

Crawford “whooping feet” message ahead of fight against Madrimov

Ahead of the anticipated bout in Los Angeles on August 5, Terence Crawford and Israil Madrimov faced off for the first time with the ‘Big Apple’s Times Square appearing in the background. Crawford posted the images from the faceoff in his IG story and in the caption of the slides, he announced what’s about to come: “Terence Crawford Era.” But it’s the message written on the top that would have perhaps caught everyone’s attention. It read, “Yeah, I’am whooping feet.”

Many fans might have come across that line somewhere. But where precisely? In his fast-catching track, ‘Euphoria’, Grammy Award-winning Kenrick Lamar dropped Terence Crawford’s name. The six-minute-long diss track is aimed at the Canadian rapper and songwriter Drake, with whom Lamar has been having a long-standing beef.

“I don’t like you poppin’ shit at Pharrell; for him, I inherit the beef / Yeah, f*ck all that pushin’ P. Let me see you push a T / You better off spinnin’ again on him. You think about pushin’ me? / He’s Terrence Thornton, I’m Terence Crawford, yeah, I’m whoopin’ feet,” so went the particular lines from Lamar’s latest answer to Drake.

Both Kendrick and Drake remained on cordial terms during the early stages of their careers as they frequently joined hands. Their first collaboration was over the number ‘Buried Alive Interlude’ which was part of Drake’s 2011 album named ‘Take Care.’ In 2012, Drake invited Lamar for the opening act of his Club Paradise Tour.

The beef between two of rap’s biggest names reportedly commenced sometime in 2013. In one of the verses of Big Sean’s song ‘Control,’ Kendrick called out a string of rappers. He said, “I got love for you all, but I’m trying to murder you.” This did not go down well with Drake as he branded it “an ambitious thought.”

In October last year, the Toronto-born rapper released his album ‘For All The Dogs’ where the collaborator, J Cole suggested in a verse that he, Drake, and Kendrick were the “big three” of modern-day hip-hop. The verse read, “Love when they argue the hardest MC / Is it K. Dot [Kendrick]? Is it Aubrey [Drake]? Or me? / We the big three, like we started a league.” This song peaked in the charts for a week only to be replaced by Taylor Swift’s ‘Cruel Summer.’ In the album ‘We Don’t Trust You,’ there was an uncredited verse by Lamar where he took a dig at both Cole and Drake and the track ends with Kendrick vowing to put all of Drake and J Cole’s “dogs” in the “pet sematary.”

Although Terence Crawford didn’t respond to Kendrick Lamar directly for using, his name, adding the song in his Instagram post and story suggests it may be a subtle nod of approval. Meanwhile meandering through ups and downs post-victory over Spence Jr., he landed up with a fight no one expected.

Terence Crawford towards the third realm

After trouncing the Texan southpaw, Crawford expressed an interest in fighting Canelo Alvarez. Nevertheless, barring the initial call-outs, talks never proceeded to the next level. Moreover, the idea of ‘Bud’ jumping three divisions up doesn’t appear too appealing either. Then, in September, Spence Jr. activated his rematch clause. However, just when the subject started catching some heat, news of the former unified welterweight champion undergoing cataract surgery pushed the matter to the backburner once again.

‘Bud’ has also activated his status as the WBO’s ‘super champion’ at Welterweight and utilized it to become their mandatory challenger at Super-Welterweight.

Interestingly, Terence Crawford’s decision to push with the Spence Jr. rematch exacted a toll on his titles. His inability to defend the IBF title resulted in Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis, until then an interim title holder, becoming a full champion. Thus, from the undisputed champion, ‘Bud’ got relegated to unified status. However, as it’s apparent, the setback hasn’t robbed the legend of his dream.

Fans can look forward to exciting times as the pound-for-pound best boxer in the world brings his enigma to a new weight class. And going by his IG story he appears more than ready.