Haley Joel Osment responds to Kendrick Lamar’s confusing ‘Euphoria’ shoutout
nme.comKendrick Lamar gave him on a recent track.The namecheck from K.Dot came as part of ‘Euphoria’, his hit diss track towards Drake which arrived shortly before he dropped the explosive hit ‘Not Like Us’.While the rapper is normally one to break out his quick-witted remarks with razor precision, one lyric in the track left fans confused.
This came as Lamar seemed to mix up former child actor Haley Joel Osment – best known for his roles in The Sixth Sense, A.I and Forrest Gump – with the American pastor and televangelist Joel Osteen.“Am I battlin’ ghost or AI?” Kendrick quipped in the song’s second verse. “N**** feelin’ like Joel Osteen/ Funny, he was in a film called A.I./ And my sixth sense tellin’ me to off him.”Now, Osment has weighed in on the confusion around the lyric in a new interview.
Held as he appeared at the premiere of his new movie Blink Twice, the actor spoke to the Associated Press about what he thinks of the line.When asked if he got caught up in the whirlwind of the Kendrick Lamar and Drake beef because of the line, he responded: “Just a little bit!
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