Though Kendrick Lamar’s highly-anticipated Drake diss track,
“Euphoria” managed to blow Drizzy’s “Taylor Made Freestyle” out of the water (if we do say so ourselves) there’s one problem with K-Dot’s instant classic: Televangelist Joel Osteen may be many things, but a film actor is not among them.
Rough five and a half minutes into the already-iconic piece, Lamar takes aim at Drake’s use of AI-rendered verses from 2Pac and Snoop Dogg in his original diss track, referencing several iconic films to deliver the blow.
“Am I battlin' ghost or AI? N— feelin' like Joel Osteen/
Funny, he was in a film called ‘AI’/
And my sixth sense tellin' me to off him”
As several fans noted on Twitter, it appears Lamar tried to reference Haley Joel Osment, the actor who appeared in The Sixth Sense and AI. Instead, the rapper name apparently conflated the former child star with megachurch pastor, Osteen.
Yet Lamar is far from alone in errors like these. From if Mozart was ever a painter to whether one can blow a cello, here are 15 factual errors featured in popular rap songs
1
“Buggin’ Out” (1991) — A Tribe Called Quest
Gravity does not make us float.
2
“Too Turnt Up” (2011) — Gucci Mane
Heavy winds can make the Eiffel Tower sway, however in general it does not lean to one side like say, the Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy.
3
“Leave Me Alone, Pt. 2” (2004) — Cam’ron
While the Gulf of Mexico exists, there is no such thing as the Gulf of New Mexico
4
“Crazy” (2012) — Gucci Mane
Mozart was a classical composer, not a visual artist.
5
“Leaving the Dock” (2012) — Curren$y & Harry Fraud
Whales are not fish. They are mammals.
6
“Exhibit C” (2009) — Jay Electronica
Barometers measure atmospheric pressure, not weight.
7
“Pop That” (2012) — French Montana
The only time that the ghosts turn white in Pac-Man is when they’re not chasing him.
8
“Martians vs. Goblins” (2011) — The Game
Captain America is a Marvel character, not a DC comics character.
9
“Peek A Boo” (2017) — Lil Yachty
Cellos are not a wind instruments.
11
“Two Words” (2004) — Kanye West
“F—k you, pay me” is four words, not two.
13
“Euphoria” (2024) — Kendrick Lamar
Haley Joel Osment was the actor in Sixth Sense and AI. Joel Osteen is a televangelist and the Senior Pastor at Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas
14
“Supa Dupa Lemonade” (2010) — Big Sean
You’d generally use a screwdriver rather than a wrench to tighten screws.
15
“Superman” (2008) — The Game
The Eiffel Tower is located in Paris not New York City.
16
“Sitting Back” (2005) — Chamillionaire
The majority of women have two X chromosomes, not XY chromosomes.
17
“Black Skinhead” (2013) — Kanye West
“That line obviously refers to the movie 300 which was about the 300 SPARTAN soldiers that lived in modern day Greece. The Romans were located in modern day Italy at that time with the republic only being founded 30-40 years after Leonidas was born.”
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