Kendrick Lamar appears to have confused actor Haley Joel Osment with pastor Joel Osteen in his new Drake diss track, Euphoria.
The 36-year-old artist in the song raps the lyrics: ‘Am I battlin’ ghosts or AI? N**** feels like Joel Osteen/Funny, he was in a movie called AI/And my sixth sense told me to leave him.”
Osment, 36, appeared in both director M. Night Shyamalan’s 1999 The Sixth Sense and filmmaker Steven Spielberg’s 2001 AI Artificial Intelligence.
Osteen, 61, president of Lakewood Church in Houston, did not appear in either film.
Osteen made national headlines in 2017 after receiving significant backlash after initially keeping the doors of his church closed when Hurricane Harvey hit the area.
Kendrick Lamar, 36, appears to have confused actor Haley Joel Osment with pastor Joel Osteen in his new Drake diss track, Euphoria. Pictured in France in 2022
Osment, 36, appeared in both 1999’s The Sixth Sense and 2001’s AI Artificial Intelligence; Osteen, 61, did not appear in either film
A number of social media users seemed to believe that the Pulitzer Prize-winning music artist had confused the celebrities with similar-sounding names.
“I don’t know about the Drake vs. Kendrick Lamar feud,” one user wrote, “but Kendrick just dropped a six-minute diss track mixing up prosperity gospel preacher Joel Osteen with The Sixth Sense’s Haley Joel Osment.”
Another user said: ‘Kendrick Lamar didn’t mistake Hayley Joel Osment for Joel Osteen on my 2024 bingo card.’
One user said: ‘Kendrick body. Just one comment. Joel Osteen & Haley Joel Osment are actually two different people.”
Another user quoted Osment’s famous line from The Sixth Sense, saying, “Haley Joel Osment sees stupid people. By people I mean Kendrick Lamar.”
A fan of Lamar said people had misinterpreted the artist’s sophisticated mix of lyrics, which incorporated elements to diss Drake on multiple levels.
‘Joel Hale Osteen’s line is actually crazy, he says he sees ghosts that he raps to, like Haley Joel Osteen from the 6th sense, but also Joel Osteen is a [mega] church pastor who has a cult following but only pretends to be a preacher to make millions from his following,” the user explained.
The user continued, “Saying Drake is a fake rapper with a cult following and all his raps are ghostwritten. That’s one of the best bars I’ve ever heard.’
The song referenced Osment’s role in director M. Night Shyamalan’s 1999 The Sixth Sense alongside Bruce Willis
It also referenced Osment’s 2001 film AI Artificial Intelligence. Co-starring with filmmaker Steven Spielberg and costar Jude Law
A number of social media users seemed to believe that the Pulitzer Prize-winning music artist had mixed up the celebrities
A fan of Lamar said people had misinterpreted the artist’s sophisticated blend of lyrics
Drake released a diss track earlier this month aimed at the Humble artist, titled Taylor Made Freestyle. Pictured in LA in 2019
The Compton, California native kept little distance from his Toronto-born rap rival in the diss track released on Tuesday.
The song starts with the lyrics: ‘Them super powers gettin’ neutralized, all I can do is watch in silence/ The famous actor we once knew looks paranoid and now spiraled/ You move just like a degenerate, heavy antics, feel distasteful to me / Why should I calculate you, not so calculated, I can even predict your angles.’
Drake released and then deleted a diss track earlier this month aimed at the Humble artist, titled Taylor Made Freestyle, which incorporates AI technology to replicate the voice of the late Tupac Shakur.
The Like That artist, in response, referenced Shakur on his new diss track against Drake with the lyrics, “Somebody told me I got a ring, on God, I’m ready to double the pay / I’d rather do that than makes a Canadian idiot Pac turn in his grave.’