YNW Melly felt conflicted about Kendrick Lamar referencing the incarcerated rapper’s homicide case on the diss observe “Euphoria.” Melly commented on the tune following its launch on Tuesday (April 30).
“Kendrick Lamar is one in all my favourite rappers so I really feel honored and appalled,” he advised TMZ. “I’m a family identify — only for the incorrect s###!!!”
Florida prosecutors accuse Melly of killing his associates YNW Juvy and YNW Sakchaser in 2018. Kendrick alluded to the murders on his Drake diss.
“Yeah, Cole and Aubrey know I’m a egocentric n####/The crown is heavy, huh/I pray they my actual associates, if not, I’m YNW Melly,” Kendrick rapped on “Euphoria.”
Melly mistakenly believed he received dissed by Kendrick in March. The Florida-bred rapper was confused by Kendrick’s reference to Hip-Hop legend Grandmaster Melle Mel on Future and Metro Boomin’s tune “Like That.”
“F### sneak dissin’, first-person shooter, I hope they got here with three switches/I crash out like, ‘F### rap,’ diss Melle Mel if I needed to,” Kendrick rapped.
Melly reacted to the tune by saying he “wasn’t prepared for this stray” and tagging Kendrick on Instagram.
“@kendricklamar thought we was cool I despatched you my vocals in your file come on OG I’m harmless.”
Melly stays in jail awaiting a retrial in his homicide case. His first trial led to a mistrial.
The retrial was delayed indefinitely on account of an enchantment filed by the prosecution. Prosecutors appealed Decide John Murphy’s order to suppress a documentary as proof within the trial. Melly’s authorized workforce requested the decide for permission to proceed with depositions and excellent motions within the slow-moving proceedings. Prosecutors mentioned the enchantment should be settled first. Decide Murphy took either side’ arguments underneath advisement, issuing no ruling at an April listening to.
Melly, whose actual identify is Jamell Demons, faces the opportunity of the loss of life penalty if convicted. He maintains his innocence.