Ben Stiller Reveals His Favorite Kendrick Lamar Song Is a Drake Diss
Ben Stiller has long been a rap fan, and he’s looking forward to seeing Kendrick Lamar headline the Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show in New Orleans in February.
The star offered a simple response to seeing Kendrick announce his Super Bowl appearance on Sunday (Sept. 8). “Yes,” the Dodgeball actor wrote.
Fans flooded Stiller’s replies and pried his favorite song from the Compton rapper out of him. “What’s your favorite song Ben,” one person asked.
The 58-year-old’s response may come as a shock to some, as he went with one of Lamar’s Drake diss tracks. “Euphoria,” he replied.
“Damn Goat,” one person said while another chimed in: “BEN KNOWS BALL.”
“Euphoria” arrived on April 30 and served as Kendrick’s first diss track response to Drake following Drizzy’s “Push Ups,” which was released over two weeks prior. Lamar’s psycho-analyzation of Drake’s existence in hip-hop raised the stakes for the war that was to come, as he displayed lyrical dexterity throughout the six-minute plus showcase.
There’s been much made about the track’s title as fans tied it to theories about Drake serving as the executive producer of HBO’s Euphoria, while the cover art gave the dictionary definition of the word. “Euphoria” eventually peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in its first full week of tracking on the charts. President Joe Biden even used “Euphoria” to diss Donald Trump in a campaign clip when he was still in the presidential race in May.
Stiller never publicly took a side in the Kendrick versus Drake feud, and he was spotted sitting courtside at a New York Knicks and Indiana Pacers game with the 6 God at Madison Square Garden back in 2013.
Lamar will hit the Super Bowl Halftime Show stage on Feb. 9 when the big game arrives in New Orleans.
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