Kendrick Lamar appears to have confused actor Haley Joel Osment with pastor Joel Osteen in his new Drake song, Euphoria.
The song’s 36-year-old artist raps the lyrics: ‘Am I fighting ghosts or AI? N**** feels like Joel Osteen / He’s funny, he was in a movie called AI / And my sixth sense tells me to leave it.
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, who presides at Houston’s Lakewood Church, did not appear in either film.
Osteen made national headlines in 2017 after receiving considerable 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 song, Euphoria. Photographed 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 any of the films.
Several users on social media appeared to believe that the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical artist had confused celebrities with similar-sounding names.
“I don’t know anything about the Drake/Kendrick Lamar feud,” one user wrote, “but Kendrick just dropped a 6 minute diss track and mixed prosperity gospel preacher Joel Osteen with The Sixth Sense’s Haley Joel Osment “.
Another user said: “I did NOT have Kendrick Lamar confuse Hayley Joel Osment with Joel Osteen on my 2024 Bingo card.”
One user said: ‘Kendrick has a body. But a note. Joel Osteen and Haley Joel Osment are, in fact, two different people.
Another user quoted Osment’s famous line from The Sixth Sense: “Haley Joel Osment sees stupid people.” By people I mean Kendrick Lamar.
One Lamar fan said people had misinterpreted the artist’s sophisticated lyrical mix, integrating elements to criticize Drake on multiple levels.
‘Joel Hale Osteen’s line is really crazy, he says he’s seeing ghosts that he’s rapping against, like Haley Joel Osteen from the sixth sense, but also Joel Osteen is a (mega) pastor of a church that has a cult following, but he only pretends to be a preacher to earn millions from his followers,” 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 in my life.
The track referenced Osment’s role in director M. Night Shyamalan’s 1999 The Sixth Sense opposite Bruce Willis.
He also alluded to Osment’s 2001 film AI Artificial Intelligence. Along with filmmaker Steven Spielberg and co-star Jude Law
Several social media users appeared to believe that the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical artist had confused celebrities.
One Lamar fan said people had misinterpreted the artist’s sophisticated lyrical combination.
Drake earlier this month released and then deleted a track aimed at the Humble singer titled Taylor Made Freestyle. Photographed in Los Angeles in 2019.
The Compton, California native spared little from his Toronto-born rap rival on the diss track released Tuesday.
The song begins with the lyrics: “Those superpowers are neutralizing, I can only watch in silence/ The famous actor we once knew seems paranoid and now he’s spiraling/ You move like a degenerate, heavy clown, it’s feeling disgusting/ Why What to calculate for you, not how you calculated it? I can even predict your angles.’
Drake earlier this month released and then deleted a track aimed at the Humble singer titled Taylor Made Freestyle, which incorporates artificial intelligence technology to replicate the late Tupac Shakur’s voice.
The Like That artist, in response, referenced Shakur in his new anti-Drake song with the lyrics: “Someone had told me you got a ring, jeez, I’m ready to double the salary / I’d rather do that than do that.” Let a Canadian black make Pac roll over in his grave.