Top Dawg Entertainment (TDE) president Terrence “Punch” Henderson appears to side with Jay-Z in his disagreement with renowned author Michael Eric Dyson.
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TDE Punch Responds to Dyson’s Kendrick Lamar Comments
During a recent livestream, Dyson revealed that he had received a phone call from the founder of Roc Nation. About the comments he made about Kendrick Lamar. During the livestream, Dyson said that HOV “vigorously” disagreed with his comments.
“A very dear and good friend of mine disagrees with me bitterly. Well, I won’t say bitterly, just aggressively and vigorously. His name is Sean Carter, better known as Jay-Z,” he explained, as seen in a clip shared by DJ Akademiks. “He hit me up, and he vigorously disagreed with my particular position. He said it with dignity, he said it with respect, he articulated his idea intelligently.”
Punch took to social media on Thursday (March 5) and threw his support behind Jay-Z.
“I vigorously disagree as well,” Punch wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.
Drake and Kendrick Lamar’s 2024 rap feud took the music industry by storm. Highlighted by Kendrick’s hit record Not Like Us. A song that aims at Drake for appropriating black culture, which simultaneously questions his blackness.
While the song quickly caught on and became the anthem for black culture, Dyson disagreed with the messaging in the lyrics.
During an appearance on the Mohr Stories podcast in February, K. Dot compared questioning Drake’s blackness to President Donald Trump’s profiling of American Immigrants.
“‘You are not like us. You are Somalian, you are Ethiopian, you are Eritrean, you are Mexican, you are whatever, fill in the blank,” he said. “And so to me, that very theme, forget the song, the song is the song, whatever you think about it. But the notion itself is a man distinction, a big distinction, us versus them. And they’re trying to de-Black Drake.”
